I think I got it!
Man, what a pain. The site is now running on a new system. After a slight dns configuration problem, a wordpress issue, and about 6 hours of work, I think I got it all up and running! Please let me know if you notice anything that is not working correctly. Email system should be back online as well. If you tried to email me (support@THISSITE.com) in the last 24 hours, you might resend it as I had issues with the mail server. You should notice a nice improvement in speed across the site, at least I do, esp in the forum!
Here is a picture of my system after I got everything changed over:
Just kidding 
Gudy
Been Busy!
wow, it has been a while since I made a post. Sorry about that. No, this site isn’t dead; in fact, it is about to get a major overhaul. My current hosting sucks, and after weeks of looking for a good host, I came to the conclusion that for what I need, they all suck! So I jumped into the world of VPS. By running my own server, I can now add my own programs to run on the web. Not only does this open tons of options for me, it is FAST. Average load times on this host is, well you know, slow and takes for ever. I wrote a rather SQL/PHP heavy script to test performance. on this server, it took 22.34 seconds to render. On the my VPS, it was 1.078 seconds. WOW!
One of the main reasons I decided to go with a VPS is so I can install subversion (git, etc, haven’t made my choice yet). This will allow me to finally be able to host my projects as true open source with source control. The plan is to offer most of my programs in this manner.
So hold on tight, because it is going to be a bumpy ride. As I work to migrate my sites over to the new system, I will do my best to minimize downtime, but the fact is, it could happen. If it does, check back after a few hours and if it is still down…well…chances are I am cussing and throwing things, but rest assured it will return.
Thanks
Gudy
Music Choice like Script Beta
Sorry for the delay, but here it is, the script I was hyping earlier. It is certainly a beta, and if you can make it better, great! It is released under the WTFPL license, which if you don’t know what this license is, I suggest you read it.
Get it HERE
Thanks
Gudy
XBMC Script
XBMC Music Script (click for full size)
If you don’t know what XBMC is, well, go . XBMC is a media dream, it plays everything, gets tons of data off the internet to make your movies, music, videos, shows, etc easy to find, sort, play, you name it. I love it! One thing I thought was missing was a good music player that would show band information, and pictures of the band/singer. The really cool thing about XBMC is that not only is it open source, but supports Python Scripting!
I am currently finishing up a rather simple script that simply pulls the information from Last.fm, sorts it out, then puts it on the screen for the song that is currently playing. It will slideshow through all the pictures found, and cycle through the biography of the artist as well. It will also allow simple controls, play/pause, previous/next, etc. I still have some cleaning up to do, but hope to release it later this week for testing. Since it is a script, it will be released open source, and I hope someone with better Python skills than me will clean it up!
Gudy
Added games to the forum
I’ve always liked this game:
Your scores are saved in the forum (if you log in), check it out, see if you can beat me!
Gudy
RadarLove 0.2beta is out!
RadarLove! 0.2beta
The next release of RadarLove is out! It is faster, smaller, and has tons of fixes and cool new features! Some highlights:
- Location Search–Search by ZIP code, city and state, or by your GPS position (for devices with a gps reciever).
- New Overlays–Warings, Location Icon, and Legend
- Text Color is now changeable
- Radar is now really transparent! No more washed out images.
- Memory improvements are massive, all images are built then released, Once that happens, only 500KB in running memory!
- Looping–Since all images are prebuilt, the loop speed is realistic.
- Time Zone issues–I found out that I was only applying Central Time Zone, now it reads in the time zone from the device, and sets the image times correctly
- Random lockups–Most were due to memory errors, that shouldn’t happen anymore.
- Zoom Level–15 zoom levels now, and a new zoom full out option.
Tons of cool new stuff. Get it, and read more about it on the RadarLove! Page. Once you fall in love with it, be sure to hit up the Donations!!
Thanks
Gudy
Donations go here
Screenshots of RadarLove!
As promised, here is a collection of screen shots of the redone RadarLove! Click on an image for a better view, my CMS chops off to make it square.
I’m still working out the fine details, but things are moving along nicely. I hope to have a version out by the end of the week! Let me know what you think.
Thanks
Gudy
RadarLove News
Just wanted to give a quick update, sorry it’s been so quiet. I’ve been working on RadarLove a bit (and Email Scheduler, more on that later) and have added some pretty cool things, and am working to include a few more.
Here are things currently done, or close to it:
Added a warning overlay (shows current warnings in the radar area)
Added a “Find Radar Site” piece to the settings. You can now type in your city, state or zip code and it will select the radar for you. (85% done)
Improved the drawing of the images drastically! Radar now supports full transparency, no more white-outs. Images are cleaner, crisp, and I also improved loop drawing times, ie the loop will run faster.
Added a setting to change the Status Text Color — 6 choices, no more hard to read blue (unless you want it).
More Code improvements
Planned additions, not yet implemented (percent done):
GPS integration. Program will pick the radar site based on your gps data. (35% done)
GPS Location icon. Will put an icon on the spot of your GPS location, or the location of the city, state you put in. (25% done)
Visual Sat. overlay. Overlay to show current cloud conditions. (0% done)
Local Forecasts. (0% done)
I hope to get this out within the next week or 2. I will post some screenshots early next week of the new design. We have had over 8,000 downloads of this thing, but only a handful of donations. Come on people, give me some incentives!
Thanks
Gudy
Email Scheduler Update and Some News
I just wanted to let you know that I have started using nuevasync for my personal push email solution (I do still use the schedule piece of it). Email scheduler will have one more release, the schedule piece of it will be a final version, and imap idle will be considered an unfinished beta. I have worked on the connection piece a bit, but have really hit a dead end. I really want to focus on my other projects (RadarLove, GolfGPS, and a new text message to email program).
I plan on making Email Scheduler open source. Once I get the website updated to handle an open source project, get permission from a friend that helped on the project, clean up the code enough to make it readable, get my license in order, etc, it will be available.
FYI, if you haven’t looked at nuevasync.com, you might want to. It uses the activesync protocol to simulate an exchange server for any imap idle server. So far, it has worked great, and is using the phone the way it was designed to be used. The push email feature is not a free service, but is dirt cheap at $25.00/year.
Thanks
Gudy
RadarLove Review
Picture on PocketNow.com
Wow, what a picture! PocketNow and WMExperts have both now reviewed my RadarLove!. Click the picture above to read the review on PocketNow. They also posted a video of the software in action:
Thanks!
Gudy