Chris Worfolk's Blog

Recently I was in a conversation where someone said that Google was seen as the non-evil alternative to Yahoo. I have never considered this the case. I have always thought (and thought many others shared the same view) that Yahoo is the non-evil alternative to MSN.

But that’s not what this post is about. It’s about the Yahoo UI Library. Yahoo have been doing a bit here and there for developers already working on the media RSS standard dealie.

Now they have this UI thing which is a library of JavaScript components that you can download and use including some stuff for AJAX, drag and drop elements, it all sounds pretty cool. I recommend you check it out.

They also have a Design Pattern Library thing which shows some of the uses and such.

Well my Mp3 player has given up the back button. That means I can’t go to the previous track but more importantly it means I can’t navigate around so I can’t (at least easily) get back to the root album to pick the folder / album I want to play. Send back time I think. I hope it’s still under warrenty.

Wow, didn’t see this coming. I was looking forward to a nice easy night watching Bratcamp. Need to find the repeat for that now. I was at film making society this afternoon and got back at about 7:30 or something to get a text from Michelle at 9 inviting me to The Cockpit as her flatmates were going as it’s a birthday type thing.

I managed to drag Sarann out too (who dragged flatmates Liz and John out as well :p). We ended up staying until the end at 2 am and almost missed the bus. Not that managing to get it is going to allow me to get enough sleep as I have to be in at 9 am this morning :p.

So thinking about it, blogging isn’t the greatest plan either. But then blogging has to come before sleep. Which I should probably engage in now.

I really hate computers. My router keeps dieing on my ass and Firefox is just being aweful, it takes ages to load or just stops working or won’t let me select between tags. I dunno whether it’s my computer or just buggy. Or both.

There are 17 blank text messages in a row in the sent items on my phone. Really not good.

I open use Google to spell check my blogs. If there is a particular word I am not totally sure the spelling of I will copy it and paste it into the quick search function of Firefox in a new tab.

It’s wierd the websites you come up with in the listings though as they are so random. I came up with a site named Reduce Your Rubbish which is a site run by the New Zealand government’s Ministry for Environment about reducing the amount of rubbish you produce to help the environment.

Michelle is running out of food so she went to a free lunch and talk dealie set up by the Christian Union and today’s topic was about Jesus rising from the dead (seriously, like there are 40-50 year old guys who actually believe it happened. I know that statment is obviously but you really need to take a step back and think about it).

So yeah, I decided to go along. I’m always open to different beliefs if only to rubbish them. I then got chatting and started networking for Encoria so I think it was time well spent.

Now that it’s a sensible time (at least more so) feel the need to discuss yesterday’s events.

I renew my objection to Valentine’s Day. I put my heart on the line and what do I get? Rejection. It’s not a nice feeling.

I mean, I went all out. I bought Jack a rose, tried to do the whole sweeping him off his feet thing and yet he still sticks with Jess. He’s a fool but I think he will come round eventually. Then I’ll use him for his DB11 code and leave :p.

My fears about most of Grant returning at the early hours and waking everyone else up seem to be unfounded or at least prevented by the fact we just had another fire alarm.

I recon it was Little Dave what set this one off. It’s always the people you least expect :p. On a serious note, this isn’t cool. I need sleep dammit and having to haul myself out of bed while an alarm designed to wake up drunk people damages my hearing is not my idea of fun.

I’m guessing the “Grant House informal gathering” will have got started by now so I’m about to head down there but I just thought I would post a quick update on my indepedent film makers community I am currently working on which will be named Movie Liquid.

I’m quite fired up about it, I think it could be really big. I seem to have a lack of sites with substance at the moment, I have my old sites like Emo Movies and TV Forge but my new sites seem to lack the feel of a massive site for some reason, I hope that this new project will rectify this.

It’s a massive undertaking. I’ve been working for ages and I’m still working on the blog system which is pretty much the first thing I started on. It’s getting done gradually though and if I can keep up the pressure on the project it should actually get finished.

The actual movie system is going to be the key to it, how it’s all handled and what a user can do, the more functionality the better. There is plenty more to do though, there will be some tricky parts like the integration between the user profiles and the vBulletin system I am using for the forums and user authentication (well sort of, I kind of wrote my own bit for that).

I’m trying to strip as much of the vBulletin system out of it as possible. I’ll be stripping out the registration system and putting my own one in, the memberlist will be stripped out and replaced as will the PM system. Basically I want it to be used for the actual forums and that’s it. Maybe usergroups for the groups but generally, everything is going to be stripped out and replaced by my own code that isn’t the actual forum. And that is going to be completely skinned and maybe have some custom plug-ins put in too.