So no more downtime! (yay!)

You’ll probably get tons of 404′s so please have patience while I transfer everything.

I guess I don’t completely understand DNS because it was my understanding that it only mattered what DNS the client was using not the server. Well at least it works now. For me anyway.

Edit: I guess the jokes on me, it’s still happening.

Edit2, 12-24: Looks like it’s fixed for me. My ISP’s status page is only showing problems for Raleigh.

Edit3, 12-30: It’s on and off apparently. Wish there was something I could do about it.

I’m currently in the process of rewriting my entire site using the CodeIgniter framework. Not counting my blog and the forums, that is. Actually, I’m not sure if I want to keep the forums up. Nobody uses them, and frankly there’s no reason anyone would want to. And now that I think about it, some sort out shoutbox would probably work just as well. I’ll have to think about it. I’d appreciate any suggestions too.

CodeIgniter has been really fun to work with. This is my first experience with a web framework (apart from Ruby on Rails, which didn’t go so well… something about “convention over configuration” seems a bit communist) and MVC is really awesome. For the first time, I have a feeling like I really know what I’m doing and I’m not just a noob anymore. I think it might be because MVC was sort of an epiphany for me as a programmer.

I’ve decided to be more proactive with learning PHP; trying to learn the sort of things that didn’t really interest/concern me when I was just doing it for fun. Design patterns, for instance. I want to eventually get ZCE (Zend Certified Engineer). Which means I may end up starting on my own framework in the near future. I want to start doing doing freelance online. My biggest obstacle right now is a lack of real experience and, unfortunately, confidence.

As far as non-web programming is concerned, I’ve recently become interested in GUIs, both designing them and implementing them. Usability issues have always interested me because psychology has always interested me as well, and the two seem to go hand-in-hand. I mentioned before that I wanted to mess around with WPF a bit, which I still haven’t gotten around to, unfortunately.

Please contact me if you see anything else wrong, I’ve been doing a lot of updating and reconfiguring on my server while waiting for my hard drive. Which gets here Monday BTW. Finally.

I didn’t want to move my Windows installation off my old 60GB IDE hard drive, and of course it died on me.

Fortunately I didn’t lose much. Just Windows, and my Winamp and mIRC installations. Plus a few apps. Although I can’t even remember what I had installed on there so that’s a good thing.

My new drive is on the way and should get here sometime this week. Seagate 500GB SATA in case you were wondering.

In other news, my site was down for a while because of router/connection problems.

On top of that, my connection is screwy today. I disconnect about every 3 minutes. It got me banned from a few channels. Hopefully this won’t last long.

I must say, Feedburner has a really nice interface. Nice use of JS and really nice, simple layout. Not only that, it’s got oodles of tools for you to use. I’ve already used one on my main page in the sidebar.

I put some buttons in the side too. You can click there cause I’m too lazy to paste the link here.

Also, you’ll notice I changed the title of my blog. It’s a little more unique. Sounds cooler anyway.