Hey all, new HTDJ drop, John wanted the arrow keys to adjust the volume, like they used to before I “fixed” everything! It’s on the HTDJ website, as usual. Even more interesting, John’s been making progress on the latest incarnation of his space game, Terminus Est. Check it out!
In the HangTheDJ/ShareTheDJ update I’m posting today, I’ve switched to sending my serialized data as HTTP multipart form data. This allows binary transfers. Before I was using POST variables, and embedded ampersands and all sorts of other characters caused truncation and all sorts of other problems. So you can now actually see playlists coming through with much better success now.
New HangTheDJ release, first working ShareTheDJ release, and the first scraps of a User Manual. All presented on a shiny new web site. Whoa. 
UPDATE: Another new release (0.30) today (Friday 2/18), you can now watch other users’ dynamically-updated playlists. See the website for more.
Been tweakin’ my life away with my silly google-in-a-frame portal. You put your search request into a top-left frame. It then drops google results in small little nuggets down a thin left pane, under the request. When you hover over each link, it gives you the link google details in a tooltip (ala DHTML). When you click, of course, the right pane fills with the result. You can flip around in the results at lightning speed. Next I think I might try working on prefetching the first few results. I’m trying to get to the maximum google consumption rate that my brain can manage. Let me know what you think so far…
From the “you mean it’s working??” dept…
Woke up this morning to the latest admin adventure: none of my mysql-driven sites were working. Tail’ed the log and found out I was out of disk space! Well I’ll be damned, the next time I tell MythTV to record every episode of SNL it can find, I’ll be more careful – that was only a couple days ago!
Everything but b2evolution came right back up after cleaning a little space and bouncing mysql. phpMyAdmin showed that mysql was stuck on the posts table. A simple “repair table posts” right in phpMyAdmin, and we’re all better now.
