September 19, 2006 I am going to set two goals that I want to accomplish by the end of the year. I want to participate in the Fall 2006 CSS reboot and I want to migrate my parent’s business site to a joomla!.
The reason why I want to do the CSS reboot this fall is in theory it will force me to get my site redesign done. Even if it doesnt look as good as the rest of the entries I’ll be happy in the fact that I did it. As for migrating to joomla, I need something where my parents will be able to manage their own content instead of me having to hand edit html pages. This is turn will get me more experience in hacking on joomla and making custom templates and modules. Hopefully I can turn it into a side business of sorts.
Well off to cooking up my new design
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September 9, 2006 I just this bit of news this morning while eating my wheaties and drinking my coffee. This is the funniest and coolest shit I have seen in awhile. Thanks to Toxic Siren for putting a smile on my shitty saturday morning
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September 7, 2006 Well I managed to get the site back up. I been having issues with FTP connections to my hosting provider all night. It decided to blow up as I was uploading the new version of wordpress to the site. Needless to say it broke shit(tm).
Now that its back up I can continue on hacking together a new theme. It’s going to be based off of the current theme i am using now. I originally wanted to do something based off of the Hemingway theme but decided not too. I really like the Rin theme and think that i can come up with something pretty cool based off of it.
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September 3, 2006 In my quest to become the ultimate uber-perl hacker, I thought it would be a cool idea to implement my own own perl based Big Brother pager. The pager we use now is a little app called bbtray that sits in the systray and fires off a popup window every so often giving you the overall color status of the crap you are monitoring (usually its looking at the main bb page).
My biggest beef with this app is that it when it pops up, it takes focus away from anything your working on. I wanted to make something that sits in the systray like bbtray but show status changes through a tooltip popup or something less intrusive and is coded in perl.
After hacking on this for a little bit this is the progress I have made:
- Connecting to the bb main page
- pull all the html from the page
- Parse out all the systems we are monitoring and what their color status is and print it
The second part that i am working is building the GUI using Win32::GUI modules. So far from playing around and reading the documentation
- I figured out how to minimize the app to the systray
- setup a timer
- create a button the fires a web browser page to the bb main page when clicked
After playing around with GUI some more I will have to get everything squished together that is usable. Once i get the full app complete i’ll post the source for all to see and you guys can check out how bad my code is 
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