Ryan Maffit

Well seeing that I have not posted in a while here is an update on my current web design projects.

Currently I am working on a project for my mom’s friend from work who owns ELee’s World of Photography - A professional photography business  owned and operated by Eric Lee.

Another project I am currently working on through Perritech is Starr’s Cars - A car dealership, and Re-Education Services - An education re-education school.

And then yet ANOTHER project is Half-Life Node through GamerNode Inc. I am helping Greg slice the Half-Life Node design and converting to HTML / CSS. Next we are going to have Paris help us with integrating the PHP.

A few projects in the works are the following:

• Redesign of Brooker Fanatics
• Redesign of RM249.COM
• Coding of DynaTech-Media and DynaTech-Hosting

Well, tonight was a very productive night. Me, lambda, and Hubi are thinking about renaming, rebranding, and expanding the current *t@[ JEDI ]@t*Clan. We plan on adding more games, more servers, and more fun!

THIS IS NOT OFFICIAL !

We still have many factors to consider in this process and we will address each of them specifically.

Expect more updates soon!

Update: We have still uet to decide if we are going to go through with this, me and Lambda are having second thoughts about totally renaming the Jedi, rather we could possibly create a main clan community and then have the Jedi-Clan as a sub-clan. It is still all in the works, come back for updates.
RM

Today I found a very interesting article stating that scientists are in the process of developing an invisibility cloak that causes an object and it’s shadow to be virtually “invisible” to anyone looking at it.

It’s like a mirage, where heat causes the bending of light rays and cloaks the road ahead behind an image of the sky.

Update: The above link no longer works.

“We have built an artificial mirage that can hide something from would-be observers in any direction,” said cloak designer David Schurig, a research associate in Duke University’s electrical and computer engineering department.

Click the link above to view the article. This is a very interesting and somewhat scary thought to know that someone can become invisible, imagine the security problems! Surely they will have to incorporate some detectable flaw in it to prevent abuse.

RM

I have now fixed the file hosting script and you can register for 50MB of free space at http://files.rm249.net/. This script is perfect for people who are in school and dont have a thumb drive / storage devic. Feel free to register and upload any word documents, powerpoints, and more. If you are having any problems uploading a certain type of file, send me a private message within the script.

RM

Over the past day and a half I have been working on developing a member’s YouTube gallery. Example: http://www.brookerfanatics.com/member/Brookers loads all videos that Brooke has created and displays them on the site. http://www.brookerfanatics.com/ut.php is my work in progress page of the page that shows all users that have the YouTube value set in their forum profiles (Does not look too pretty, but it will when it is officially released.)

On a side note I have also updated the YouTube code on the site player so that it now does not have the white borders around the edges.
RM

Here is my current situation:

By tommorrow I have to have 5 articles (not currently found yet) and write for each a Critical Analysis. I knew about this, and I should have worked on it some over the past weekend, but I have been extremely busy working on other things such as the new RM249.COM template, alpha version of the new Brooker Fanatics design, and working on the server… I am going to spend the next 4-5 hours of my day (Wednsday) working on the Critical Analysis papers of these 5 articles, so tonight I wont be on much.

On a side note I do not have school on Friday (:D) so I will be able to work on the DynaCMS Beta (http://dynacms.dynatech-media.com/) some and add some more functionality to it, possibly incorporating my Backup system that I released for 100 Web Space users (See the 100webspace forums for more information).

RM

It has been a while since I posted… In case anyone is interested, it is because I have been so busy lately. Current projects include the following:

• RM249.COM Redesign (90% Complete)
• RM249.COM New CMS / Frontend Coding (5% Complete)
• Re-Education Services Website (90% Complete)
• School Work (Yes… School work has been CRAZY lately)

This is about what I have been up to lately… Plus dealing with tons of other crap, so if you are bored… IM me, or something…

RM

So far school has been somewhat difficult. I am currently enrolled in AP U.S. Government, A+ Discovery Engineering, Web Page Design 2, and Honors English 11. The amount of homework I have is crazy lately… and I dont think its going to get any easier so as I get more and more into school, I will have more and more homework…. Which sucks, because then I wont have any time for doing anything with my many online communities (Jedi, 100ws, BF, HLG, RM249.COM, etc).

For everyone involved in the Brooker Fanatics chat (Mitch, Chelsea, Ritchie, Josh, Allan, Greg, and everyone else), its always fun to chat with you guys. For those of you that have not come on in! Be sure to check it out at Brooker Fanatics. Those trivia games are always a fun time.

Recently I have coded the screenshot system for one of my friend’s website, HLGamer.com. The system can be seen at http://www.hlgamer.com/screen/Half-Life_2:_Episode_One/. The system uses PHP (Hypertext Pre-Processor) to get a list of images in the screenshots directory, it then takes the name of every JPG file and requests the thumbnail from the thumbnail directory then shows all of the images in a two-columned table. As HLGamer and RM249.COM grow larger, I hope that we can maintain a good relationship as to allow coding assistance between the two websites.

Ryan