Quick upload here to make sure everything is working correctly live. This is not quite to my liking yet, but it's getting there. As you can see from the early WIP shot, it's not quite how I had mocked it up in photoshop, but I'm pretty close. The current setup complies with the w3 standards for CSS and XHTML which are often ignored and sometimes really strict; especially the XHTML, but with my new little badges of honor on the bottom of the page I can be sure my code is clean and it should display correctly everywhere, which is awesome. I've also focused on coding this site for good portability; so each element should pop right on to any other page I make later, with generic class names, reusable super small images and almost no absolute positioning. Should have been a 'duh' kind of thing to do, but the last few times I've worked on the site that has definately not been the case. Gah I could go on for quite awhile about how much this site is an improvement over my old one, haha. So, awesome. Obviously, the about me, portfolio, and links pages are coming after I get this polished off a bit more. With the nifty, clean, code I've written it shouldn't take too long at all; even though I've planned a decent bit of work for myself on the portfolio layout (click) not to mention filling it up with stuff... shouldnt be too bad though.

Oh and, what the hell, a bit of a personal update. Playing my bass again paid off, I'm starting (well, joining or ...co-starting?) a bit of a band with an awesome vocalist/guitarist. He's planning on taking this pretty far and if it works out it should be really cool. And, xkcd, I've recently discovered, is the best thing since sliced bread as far as nerd comics go. Otherwise, not much new on Spring or C#; the manual updating of this site is a huge pain though. As soon as I get hosting php is definately getting utilized so I can get out of the stone age, ha. Allowing comments would be great...
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Why hello there. It's been forever since I've coded much for the web. I've had a small project going for Spring and I'm beginning to learn C# as well as picking my bass up again which has been pretty fun.

Anyway, point of the post today is to off an early work in progress shot of the next makeover for this site. Check it out here. Soon I will definately be buying some web space for this site so I can try out Silverlight and my shiny new C# skills; wmu's hosting is horribly restrictive. Until next time...
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For the last month and a half my laptop's been out of commission because, once again, my power cord went out. It's finally working again and I can start coding random stuff some more, horray! I've been practicing my photo editing skills with paint.net, a really nice freeware image editing program like the GIMP, and it's resulted in an awesome new look for the site. I'm also adding a page for services because I'm going to try my hand at fixing people's computers for some cash. All the time without a computer spawned some crazy art that may or may not result in a few Spring units, but the ideas I have will probably require some crazy scripting so it could take some time. Even without a computer I was reading up on coding. I reccomend trying out some books from the people at dummies; the books I have on C++ were written by a comedian and make for a good read. Also, if you're trying to learn any kind of web coding, check out w3schools; you can find everything you'll need here-it's made by the people that set web standards.
Another cool thing I randomly found online was the blog of the CEO of Sun Microsystems, he's got some interesting entries; specifically the one with the stats on the world's largest supercomputer at the University of Texas.
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It took awhile but I've finally finished reformatting the site. I'm only uploading the main page and the about me section in the new format for now, as it's going to take a little longer to finish the rest and I really just want to have it online.
Looks a hell of a lot better in my opinion, and I learned a lot of new things in the process. There are a few quirks (it requires java to do the active stylesheet switching which I'm still deciding if I should keep at all, and I used the Cordia New font for this text which appears as times new roman on my girlfriend's computer because she doesn't have it but I'm assuming most people do) I may also be adding comment functionality to this blog section and be switching to a new host and picking up a domain name in the near future for more server space and an actual name for the site. I tried to stay away from using things that required pictures which would have made this look even better but I'm more than satisfied with the result. Here's what it used to look like. Besides that, I've started classes and I'm really excited about how they're going. All of my teachers are really in to what they're doing and it makes class 10 times more interesting when the prof actually cares about what they're saying. I also created another spring unit based on the Executioner class Ammar ship from EVE online. It looks pretty sweet but I don't have it textured yet so no pics.
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