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The End of an Era (Part II)

February 24th, 2010
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To quote a previous post:

FLIRC was over. Stolen-Enterprise was slowly coming back to its former glory. I was later approached by FSIRC if I wanted to join their network. How could I refuse an offer like this?! 12 months on, and Stolen-Enterprise is failing. Aversion has become to greedy and careless that he’s let his own network fall under its own corruption!
The End of an Era posted April 9th 2009 by KingTarquin

It appears that moving on is the key to building new skills. After running my own network and website once before, I’ve now decided to do it again, but with flair. From January 2010, I’ve been working on IRCWhore’s. I’ve owned the domain since about 2008, but never really had a use for it, but I guess, now I do.

There were a couple of reasons why I could no longer keep my server over at FSIRC;

  • Server Traffic – Over the time I was a network administrator at FSIRC, I had certainly noticed a major decline in traffic. Whether their target users were moving on in life, or they didn’t like the way the server was run. Who knows, but all I can say is that my server was being wasted on FSIRC, as it was averaging about 150MB of transfer per month. I’m still currently working out what to do with that, might run a few of my websites round-robin styleee..
  • No Pressure – I know this might seem a bit of a harsh thing to say, but the rest of the staff really didn’t care about the network. I was the one to repair it when it went down, I was the one to update all the systems, I maintained all the websites, and I was the one to issue bans for the network. I don’t wish to work for a network, and run it for them. That’s not how I see helping someone. I’d much rather spend the time running my own network, and putting the time and the effort into maintaining my own systems.

Over the next 12 months, there will be several stages of rapid development for IRCWhore’s, including the completion of the main website back-end, the inclusion of forums/message boards (tbc), the addition of more customisable profile pages, and the coding of an entirely customised chat browser (where the chatter can change the aspects of the page the chat window is on, not just the chat window). I also plan to get a bot coded for the Backend/IRC Server integration system. There will be more plans on this released at a later date.

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Web Design

September 13th, 2009
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Everyone wants a professional looking website that works, but there are only a few designers that pass the mark. After looking around a few website’s that free-lance designers have coded for sites based in Preston, I have come to the conclusion that people fail to meet the ever increasing standards of modern websites.

What I intend to do, is work with the client right from the start, from conception of design, to implementation of features, to publishing and maintenance. I plan to offer a whole range of website packages from single-page info-sites, to dynamic-content based management systems, while using a whole range of web-design skills.

Obviously, this will mean investing in some new servers. I will more than likely use old-faithful Linode as they are a VPS provider I can trust. I am hoping to have just a dedicated webserver just for customers, which I can also move my sites over to, while making my existing webserver a dedicated services server, providing things such as MySQL and Billing.

This is just in the planning stage at the moment, and the idea’s are sketchy. As time progresses I plan to enforce these idea’s in a solid structure, and bring around a proper business plan.

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Coding Crazy

April 8th, 2009
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Have you ever been so deep in code that you don’t actually know what’s going on around you? I’ve been working on a couple of PHP projects, and I’ve been so deep in code, I take a look at something perfectly normal, and all you can see is variables, functions and classes.

Some of the PHP stuff I’ve been working on (tidying up and increasing efficiency) is way past my level of coding, like customised PHP sockets and timers. I understand PHP enough to work on a simple website, but I like building PHP scripts which get executed in a command line. Like coding the file, hard coding the input variables, running the script, and jumping for joy when it executes how I want it to!

The biggest downfall I have, is coding HTML/CSS. I cannot design for shit! Nothing I actually design looks good! It works (to a certain extent), but looks like something you put your foot in while walking through a field of cow burgers!

I really do need to work on design, but if I can find a decent enough template, I can work around that, and make it work the way I want it to.

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