So, long time no post, coming up to 1 month now.
However, 10 days early I'm posting regardless of the little amount of interesting stuff I have to blog about.

Javascript Testbox
Well, part of my course here in wintery ol' Loughborough is a module called "Programming for the world wide web", which starts off with JavaScript. Not very fun really as the lecturer seems insanely dense and the teaching material is about as good as giving a 2 year old a chinese recipe book to try and learn the alphabet!

So, as I'm an evil and stubborn kinda guy I decided rather than to complain or perhaps just ignore whatever he said I'd write my own system to beat his. My system would kick arse and be standards complient while doing it too!

Comparrison (Mine on top, His below):

As you can see, mine uses the spunge theme, as that's what I had laying about at the time. It has nice looking buttons, silk icons, enough JavaScript to sink a ship, error reports, lessons, an output box to save on annoying alerts, syntax highlighting thanks to codepress and a bunch of functions already written for things like AJAX and outputting arrays.

His testbox is a textbox and a button on a yellow background...that's it. Awesome...or not.

Anyway, the lessons on my system aren't really written, apart fromt he first which was done in a hurry at 4am after an all-nighter so I could test the lesson system. I will write more when I can, but basically, my system rocks, his fails.

And if you want to use my JavaScript testbox you can find it here: http://sandbox.palmnet.me.uk/testbox/js_tester/

Codebox updates
As the title says with all it's jargon I did some PHP too, I wrote a little API.

If it was secure I would put it up here for fellow people to tinker with, but it was written in a hurry and the code is a complete shambles, but a working shamble never the less.

Basically I wrote a little API for the codebox so I can send scripts from the JS testbox to be saved on the codebox, and then a little search and open function on the API so scripts can be loaded back into the testbox with the use of AJAX. Well, AJAJ as I used JSON and not XML.

I also fixed a bug or two on the codebox but forgot to remember what! Something about plus signs going AWOL when saving and a little security fix was added too I recall.

Other stuff
Not much else has happened geek-wise. We have a little LAN set up in my halls on my corridor which is fun, UT2004 only so far though. Might start to branch out into other games soon though as not everyone likes FPS.

I might also try and crack out C++ or similar and make a mini game for the LAN too, perhaps something similar to duotris but for multi-player. Maybe even a little RPG-type thing if I can.

Not made any stand-alone apps for ages so that might be good fun ^^

If anyone else who reads this has any ideas on things to code to keep my mind active then please post away! All ideas will get coded at one point...hopefully :3