JoeDag32

The fine folks at the Yahoo! Developer Network released an Astra Carousel component just recently. From what I’ve messed around with it thus far it seems pretty impressive and fairly easy to modify. It’s based on the built in List component, so populating it is easy.

They’ve got some great documentation on it and some examples to get started.  Based on what I’ve seen thus far, I think that it’ll work it’s way into a few of my upcoming projects.

Was trying to move some data from an Outlook 2003 calendar to an older calendaring app (maybe callled Calendar Creator, but not sure).  Exporting and importing data can always be a tricky task.  Luckily this app, was able to import a CSV file, but it had very limiting fields.

So I had to parse the CSV file and combine some of the fields then save it as a new CSV file.  Luckily the fgetcsv() function came to the rescue.  This handy function allows you to parse a CSV file and it returns an array.

Just bought a new Xbox 360 and Madden ‘09 for my brother Frank.  His house was broken into a few days ago and they made off with that amongst some other things.  Probably some stupid kids from what was taken, so hopefully they’ll get caught.  It was Anthony’s idea to buy him a new system.

It’s really ashame you can’t go Charles Bronson on them and take the law into your own hands.  Well at least we were able to replace most of the stuff that was taken.

Finally just set up an account on Facebook.  Now I can finally get my hands dirty with FBML, API, Data Store, and FQL while developing for the Facebook Platform.  If I make anything cool I’ll be sure to write about it here.  Guess it’d make some sense to have an idea for and app before developing it.

Just finished playing The World Ends with You for the DS.  It’s one of the better games I’ve played in a while.  Very original game, not just another sequel.  The production values were top notch, some of the best graphics I’ve seen on the DS and the original music was really impressive.  It’s amazing how much work is put into some handheld games now.

A lot of work was put into the story, with a lot of surprises and along the way.  It style was a bit too teenish for me at times, but I’m probably too old to still be playing these games anyway.  The dual screen battles, while confusing at first were well done.  Controlling the bottom screen with the stylus while taking control of the top screen using the directional pad was a really slick idea.

Definitely one of the better RPG’s I’ve played in a long time.  Very refreshing to play something so new and original, instead of another Final Fantasy RPG (though they are usually great games).