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March 26th, 2007 by NerdyNick

Well I finally had some time today along with my video game playing to finally revisit jsColorPallet with some design changes to the website. It keep the same very simple gray layout but gave it a more better div layout with some more areas to visit in regards to the project. So hopefully this will help out with people managing to use the software.

I also have plans at the next time I get some time to do a bit more code clean up and some creating some more color pallets for everyone to use. I have an idea to separate the color pallets from the main code base so that it becomes a lot easier for people to create custom color pallets for special purposes. I also want to achieve this so that I can allow options to change the color value returned(Hex, RGB, etc). I also have a plan to give you the option to in bed the color pallet on the page. So hopefully I can get some more time to get to making these changes. They will probable steam to creating v1.1.1 and then v2_rc0 with the separation into subclasses for each color pallet.

So go check out the current state of things as well as keep checking back for updates on the project.

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March 25th, 2007 by NerdyNick

Well I can finally say I have beat Gears of War. Yes!

I was finally able to sit down and find some time today to play some videos games. So as you know I decided to pick Gears of War sense its probable one of the newer games that I own. I picked up were I had left off with the infamous battle with Ramm (The End Boss). I had been trying to beat him on my own for a while but as we all know the AI in most games just sucks ass. This time though was diffrent I didn’t have AI to worry about because I had Taylor over to help me kick this guys ass.

Once we got back into the groove of playing Gears of War we managed to beat his ass with no problem at all. The ending was great to we managed to get one of us at one end of the train and the other at the other end of the train. We had Raam so confused at who to go after that for a while he just stood there. He finally went after Taylor which opened up a hole for me to just let loose on him with shotgun shells and grenades. It finally came down to him getting so close to Taylor that he had to jump out of his spot and start running back to me. As soon as he did that Raam turned around at started chasing after him. We almost thought he was done for then I managed to score some nice shots in as Taylor was running back that dropped Raam to the ground. It was one of the senses from a movie. You know the ones where the guy comes running out as the building blows but this time it was the guy running as bullets go flying over his head and a giant ugly mother falls to the ground dead.

It feels so great to finally have another game under the belt and to have had enough time to sit down a play a game. So now its time to sit and play another one. This time its the old classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 Arcade game.

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March 24th, 2007 by NerdyNick

Well I have finally got to release one of the best projects I have worked on in a while. It is a Microsoft Virtual Earth Mass-Up.

The whole thing uses Virtual Earth to search for properties in your desired area of the US. Currently the site that I have deployed it on only displays The Group Inc. Map Based Search. So go check it out tell me what you think and well keep reading for updates that I make to this new mass-up. I’m sure there will be more.

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March 19th, 2007 by NerdyNick

So I found a problem with Prototype in IE 7 with he Element.hasAttribute() method. It appears prototype doesn’t add the method very well in IE 7 to the element. Specifically the problem where I was having problems was when I would pass “this” on a anchor tag onClick event.

The solution I found that seems to work well is to take the element that is passed into the function and wrap $() around the element.

Example:

Hope this helps a lot of people out.

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March 14th, 2007 by NerdyNick

So I have started a new website that amazingly is up and complete. Go Check it out at TheRedCavern.com

You will love it. Oh ya by the way “NOT FOR WORK”.

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March 12th, 2007 by NerdyNick

Well I also have another project going on along with all my other lovely projects. This one happens to be a great fun project. Whos aim is to provide joy amongst you and your co-workers.

So whats the project, you ask. Well the current title is Ultimate Goatse. If the title doesn’t give it away as to what the project is all about then you need to go to the Goatse website.

Currently we are working on some great features of the project in our spear time. As it sites we have an interface that I am building that will allow you to connect to the other modules of the project. Currently the only server that we have is the wsServices module. We will soon have posted on the project site the source code that you can add onto as well as some binaries to download.

I must also tell you that not only will the project have Goatse but will contain all the favorites plus some new ones. Like LemonParty, The Will Power, and all the other greats.

Look forward to future posts on the project as well as my other projects.

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March 6th, 2007 by NerdyNick

So me and a bunch of my co-workers have come up with a new website that we are completely pumped about. DrinkPledge.com is the site. Its going to be a website completely dedicated to all those in college or were once in college.

We are still working out the basics of everything that we want to do on the initial website release. So I will keep you all updated on how everything is going with the website.

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March 4th, 2007 by NerdyNick

Well I don’t know if I have told you about one of my newer projects that I have started. Myself and one of the other members of the Local Denver Ubuntu Groups (CoLoCo) are designing and building a completely new website for the group. Currently the group is managed from the Wiki page that Cronical and the Ubuntu community manage. All though this is great we though having an actual live website would be a great thing to put up.

We have finally got a comp put together as well as I have sliced and setup the layout on our dev site (CoLoCo.NerdyNick.Com). Go check it out if your interested or at least come join the group. Its pretty fun and a great thing to do if you are interested in computers or are looking for better solution to windows.

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March 4th, 2007 by NerdyNick

Well I have finally finished moving. I have to tell you it feels great having your own place. Don’t have to worry about coming home to loud annoying parties or not having clean dishes to eat from. The only downside is that it makes you so broke but well worth it.

I almost have all the boxes unpacked and put away. Will be so happy once thats done. Just need to find the energy to finish it. The only thing that I really am still waiting on is the Qwest/Direct TV guys to come out and get the Internet and TV hooked up. So that I can get some more work done from home. Still have so many projects to finish.

Well thats it for the quick update on the move. If you want to come out and check out the new place. Give me a call.

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