Song of the Moment

Soft Shock (acoustic) by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs – This song is so delicate, quite unlike a lot of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs older music. I like the acoustic version a fair bit more than the main version. When I first heard Zero on the radio I thought I’d be disappointed with the new album but then I heard this song and some of the other acoustic versions.

Book of the Moment

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I’ve been a fan of Holmes since childhood but I finally got my hands on this two volume anthology for about $2 and in near mint condition. I found tha t I’d not scraped the surface with the two books I’d owned previously. I still have to say my favorite is “A Study in Scarlet” for old times sake. Holmes continues to surprise me and I was pretty amused that there were cases he was unable to solve or in which he was tricked (Irene Adler). I’m sort of apprehensive about the new movie I hear is coming out. Robert Downey Jr. looks nothing like my idea of Holmes. However, I’m certain he can act the part.

Script of the Moment

I’ve been working with IPB 3.0 a fair bit. Created an application for multi-avatars for the forum in which members can upload a set amount of avatars and choose different ones for each post. Also, created a few hooks such as the ability to post your status to Twitter via the forum and added the ability to show statuses in posts  if the member so chooses. It’s been fun working with the apps and hooks feature, challenging and fun.

I’ve also been steadily working on myFanlisting. I’d abandoned the project ages ago and had removed the script from my site. However, I’ve started rewriting it completely. It uses some of my last work on phpFan but has a number more features and goes beyond a collective script.

Different sections underway so far:

affiliates (also with the ability to request affiliation with the collective or fanlisting and add a button)

codes (also with the ability to donate codes)

collective (self-explanatory, a formatted list of owned fanlistings displayed under their categories and/or all fanlistings)

joined fanlistings (a formatted list of joined fanlistings displayed under their categories and/or all joined)

pages (ability to add different pages such as the rules or about section for the collective or a specific fanlisting)

wishlist (top fanlistings, other wishlisters, fulfilled wishes)

main (statistics for each fanlisting)

Different from phpFan features planned or done:

custom permalinks

file templates (instead of phpFans mySQL based templates)

cleaner code

breadcrumb navigation

complete pagination with back/forwards and first/last links, as well as showing only five page links before and after the current page (First < … 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 (the current page) 12 13 14 15 16 > Last

gravatars for the members list

ajax for forms but will work without

Planned Sections:

members

update form

join form

keep-in-mind

conversion script

statistics (for collective)

If you have any suggestions for the script I’d be more than happy to hear them.