selfstasis

I can officially say I worked for the NBA on my resume. I coded, and made minor design tweaks to the player “widget” below. You can find these at the NBA under any particular player. I’m so proud.

Looks like my YouTube widget (MyTube) isn’t working. When testing in Flash Pro it works however as soon as I upload it dies. Weird part, it’s using the same web service as my ripper and that is working just fine. I’m going to check that project into svn, clean up the code, and do some more testing to resolve this problem. Need to rewrite a good chunk of the code base anyway. My logic was all over the place.

Update 12/20/06:
Found out why. YouTube implemented a crossdomain.xml file on their root domain so only youtube can access youtube apis from other domains. Damn it. I guess I have to work on a proxy.

About a month or so ago Dreamhost, my hosting company, fell into a dark hole for more than a few days. It wrecked havoc! For me personally, this wasn’t so much of a problem albeit really annoying. However it was my playground for testing, and when you’re webcentric, well - your fucked. The worst part of the experience was recommending them for our company blog, widgify, for reasons which always rule the business world, money. It was dirt cheap.

However when the pressure was on, Dreamhost didn’t do so well. And I’m being nice here. When I knew the problem wasn’t going to get resolved (I had waited for a couple of days) plus pressure from work, I switched to MediaTemple’s new grid server. Now I wished I would have stuck it out personally with them as well. The service has just been phenomenal. Everytime I called they answered within minutes.

I had a problem with the MySQL connections to the blog and restore from a dump file. MediaTemple had been having problems with MySQL for a few days before I rejoined, however it was nice to physically talk to someone about those problems (No phone support from Dreamhost even though we paid for call back support). Still connections problems. Finally on a last ditch effort, I sent an sos email to the Director of Marketing, Alex. He personally saw to it that the problem was solved, and it was fixed. The problem was rather embarrasing, it was the wrong environmental call for php to mysql. Yet, still more problems with MySQL. Through ssh I found a pattern in the tables which were a little off. The dump from Dreamhost didn’t exactly sync up. When the tables where fixed the blog went up. It was a great feeling, but it felt even better than I can count on the people at MediaTemple for future support.

Personal THANKS! to Alex at MediaTemple.

I joined Facebook. It looks like I’ll be joining MySpace as well. I’ve discussed my not so affinity for social networks before because of the waste of time however I’ve lost touch of some friends, and low and behold, their in one or both of the those social networks. Facebook has been decent so far, at least they worked on their usability and ui. Myspace is just useless, but *sigh* I’ll just deal with it.