Professionalism!
In the next few days I’ll be purchasing 3 new domain names, one for my blog and other things (Firefox Development). One for a soccer management game, and one for a web development company I am starting up.
Obviously all 3 of them will have to pay for themselves, I’ll be offering a member service for the soccer manager game, and Ads on all of the sites.
I’ll post more info as and when it happens
Four4Two enters Pre-Alpha Phase 1b!
Four4Two entered stage 1b of Pre-Alpha today. You can now add new players to the database using AJAX!
the .co.cc nameservers have now been set-up so the official Four4Two we bsite is http://four4two.co.cc
Its been a while…
No advances with xFox, but I’ve started making my football management game, it’s Ajax based so it’s much much easier than any other football management game.
This will give me heaps of JavaScript experience for making xFox.
Lets start again…
Today I decided to read some XUL documentation and I had an epiphany: I don’t have a clue what I’m doing with xFox, so I’ve decided to stop and start over again in a few weeks when I fully understand what I’m doing.
To gain some experience I’ll be producing some mini extensions like a calculator, and a high score checker for an online game.
I won’t bother putting them on AMO but I might upload them for you to look at.
England games on Setanta Sports
If anyone is pissed of with all of the England games being on Setanta and none of the highlights are on other channels, like me, then I have a solution!
First you need to download SopCast (I’ve forgotten the URL so you’ll have to Google search ‘SopCast’) and then on match days, google search the match you want and then ask sopcast on the end, E.G, England Croatia sopcast, then click around on the results for some links to view the games.
SopCast is a browser plug-in that will let you view live streams, basically like YouTube but live and with full football games 
xFox updates
Just a quick update on xFox, I’ve nearly finished the GUI (user interface) for the extension, all that’s left is to code the JavaScript to actually make the extension do something.
Once that’s done I’ll release a public BETA and then release the extension as version 0.9.
Note: the GUI is the easy part. 
What I did today…
I didn’t even touch xFox today, my laptop looks to be on it’s last legs and I decided to take up a sub-domain on tracdoor.co.cc to back up all of my documents, password protected of course.
Then I came across EyeOS, basically it’s an operating system that can be accessed through any browser. Hopefully when my host gets his/her act together they can allow the required file types.
So I set that up so I could use it with my iPod Touch when I’m on the go and can’t sync to my laptop.
I’ll be migrating it into mybsevers tomorrow, so no developments on xFox for the moment.
The websites for EyeOS is here give it a try!
School
School is shit, it has to be said.
Take IT class for example, in our first GCSE class we were told that to get an A* all you needed to do was to copy a spreadsheet from the teacher, for the love of god this is GCSE IT I was expecting at least a dip into VB.NET, just the MS Access GUI and MS Spreadsheet to look forward to this year.
None of the teachers even know that I know how to code, XHTML, PHP, JavaScript, XML, c++ and Python, but what do they care, as long as the training-to-be IT teachers have their crappy government grant and GUI’s (that’s right – most of them aren’t proper IT teachers)
Thanks to them I’ve got no chance finishing xFox anytime soon (expect a pre-alpha version in the next couple of weeks)
Yes that’s right PRE-ALPHA it’s going that slowly, I expected the to be passed the BETA stage by now.
School is shit.
xFox – going crap
It has to be said, xFox is not going to plan, all I’ve managed to do over the last few days is display my Gamertag.
School has started againso that won’t speed anything up, if your looking for someone to blame, then the MozillaZine community is the downfall of this project, extremely unhelpful members who would simply rather post a link to an unrelated website than post 2 lines of code.
For example, I asked “How do I embed this Javascript XMLHttpRequest output into my XUL overlay?” they just posted a link to how to make a button.
Anyway i’m still working on it and I’m looking through some other extensions to help me and I’ve found one that will help make the core of the extension (adding, deleting & viewing friends) after I’ve adapted that (god knows how long that will take ^_^) then we should be ready for the first 1.0 release ((I might make it a 0.9 release and release the 1.0 version as the first stable and fully featured release, 0.9 would therefore be a public BETA)
I’ve also re-thought the only-5-friends-for-V1 idea and basically allowing unlimited friends*
Anyway thanks for reading and wish me luck!
* the more friends you have, the longer it takes to refresh. So I might put a cap at 20 or so in later versions.
xFox – the Xbox Live Firefox extension
Time to post the low-down on my next Firefox extension, xFox, this is the very first Xbox Live extension for Firefox, and hopefully will be very popular and an essential add-on for all Xbox Live users.
The idea of this extension is very simple, to let users see what friends are online without signing into Xbox live, either through the 360 itself, or through the Xbox.com website.
How is this done?
It’s simple in theory, the user adds the desired friends to the built in friends list, and then the extension checks if these friends are online.
The only problem is, that I am ‘stealing’ the feed that is used to check whether the friends are online, only 50 people in the world have access to the Microsoft Xbox Live servers, so should I get found out then the extension is rendered useless.
In the first release, Version 1.0, you will only be able to add 10 friends, because I doubt the first version will be very fast, and it will take absolutely ages to run the extension, also, if i phrase the extension in gradually it won’t look suspicious to the owner of the feed (I’m running the extension off someone elses server without their permission, if I let everyone have unlimited users on their friends list, then he will get suspicious).
So far I’ve written the script that pulls the XML file (the file which contains the information) and displays certain information (gamerscore etc..) to the user.
Please bare with me, this is no easy task, I’m learning 3 languages at once as well as going to school.
