It’s Sunday afternoon again. Where does the time go. Work was extremely quiet last week, only went in 2/5 days ’cause there wasn’t enough to do. Friday night went to the movies and saw Miami Vice, which was suprisingly good – likely because it has nothing to do with that 70s TV show of the same name.

Spent Saturday shopping and putting car audio systems in. Mitsubishi suck balls for the record. I was once again reminded of two things that could have made my job much easier, which I really should invest in. 1) A multimeter, 2) Soldering iron. As I mentioned above, work is thin at the moment, and so is my wallet. I have a headache again this afternoon, body is probably trying to tell me to begin consuming alcohol, that sounds like a good idea.

I was about to continue working on Rojax but I can’t be bothered tonight, it’ll probably stay like this for a few weeks until I muster up enough energy to continue. Been reading a whole stack of AJAX tutorials and discovered that I probably don’t know enough JavaScript to make this work 🙂 I can fumble my way through PHP and SQL but JS is a whole ‘nother can of worms.

I didn’t go in to work today, after speaking with my boss on Friday we agreed there wasn’t much point. Tomorrow we’ll re-asses the situation with the business and decide which direction we want to go in. It’s certainly going to be an interesting couple of weeks at any rate. Who knows, maybe I’ll be unemployed very soon.

Comments have been added, once again largely thanks to the original CMS’ developer. All eight lines of code were added to the main Rojax engine. Also had a friend help me out with some strip tags to prevent people posting HTML in their comments. By the way, I have no intention of adding any kind of user / login system so get used to typing your name everytime you want to make a post.

Just realised with all these extra SQL tables I’m going to have modify a large chunk of the install script, it needs rewriting anwyay. Thankfully I have no intentions of releasing Rojax for quite a while yet, still have a lot of bugs to iron out first. Really need to find a way to tell AJAX to call a post from an ID given by address bar. Any JavaScript experts about ?

Notice anything different? Well, perhaps not on the surface, but this page is now AJAX powered. Basically, this post box is all AJAX, so you can flick back and forth between posts, without the page ever reloading. I can also hide code quite effectively, the first person to find the comment hidden in this post gets $10

I’m slowly cutting up Rodin, I’ve added an icon (look at your address bar), which I will set as a global variable later. Also added an RSS feed, largely thanks to the work of the original Rodin author. Next is an RSS aggregator, also eventually to be set globally and all configured from backend. There is one little thing that shits me about this, the title bar is now static, I know this can be changed using JavaScript, but whether I can tie that in to PHP and AJAX is another matter entirely.