Long time no post!
I should probably code it so all my blog posts start with that thinking about it. But I have good reason not to have posted in over a month.

My main reason is work. It's so much fun and an awesome job, but it really tires me out. So when I get home around 6pm I'm not in the mood for coding like I used to be because I've been doing it all day.
However some stuff has been done. Namely shoutboxes, as usual.

The shoutboxes have come on in leaps and bounds. The image rendering times are so good and the code is so slick that even when it has to render in a totally different way to last time, rendering coloured text multiple times on multiple lines, 11 emotes and underlining some text it's actually faster on average than the old script was!

The admin area has been expanded a little but there is a major snag I've hit with the site theme which kinda screws me over. Hopefully Phil will come up with something soon but he's rather elusive lately so I never know quite what's going on :S I might even have to delve into the dark world of design myself until I can find a better replacement.
If you think you can crank out a design for me do drop me a comment

I've also started work on a little API for it too, so that people can code random stuff to integrate with the shoutbox backend without having to touch my code at all. The idea comes from Sonic Offline, an online friend from the US, who mainly does flash based things. He wanted a way to mix his ActionScript seamlessly with my PHP.
I wrote the whole API in about 30 minutes and it outputs data in XML, JSON and even a raw PHP array but with future plans for CSV and perhaps some other formats that people suggest.
I also need to find a neat and secure way to let the API accept input data securely but it's not a major feature on the top of my mind at the moment.
Still, something nifty to look out for in the future :3

Also worked a bit on the new version of my site. Still not off the drawing board yet but the plans are starting to straighten up and it looks like I might have started to come up with some nifty things using loads of ideas I've had over the past few months.
My main goal is still to somehow come up with a central palmnet hub which will have all my other things integrated into it nicely. So my sandbox scripts would be easily accessible and my blog would merge with the portfolio. But there's still much to do and little time.

And if that wasn't enough I could tell you about some of the offline apps I've done to help me at work, but I plan on making a little coders/hackers toolkit at some point with all sorts of nifty things for windows people that will make coding and hacking oh so much easier.
I've also done some rather interesting web work at work, but I can't show one thing publicly and the other isn't fully live yet.
Oh, and I should have a new PC soon, which I guess might make me more productive...or it may mean I'm less productive and I'm playing games instead :P

Sorry for the long ramblyness of this post, I'm too tired and lazy to structure sentences and paragraphs properly. Will blog more soon when I progress on things like the shoutbox and my little toolkit.