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Happy 5 + 10 + 30 years = 2008!

Ooh, I should have written about this ages ago but I’ve been busy, lazy and ignorant for the past month.

2008 is triple milestone in my life.

10 years ago I moved to Finland from Sweden.
5 years ago I started working at the company I work for today.
30 years ago I was born (oh well, later in August. Those other two happened in January)

Happy happy, joy joy?

As it turns out, sure. I’ve had lots of happy times these past 10 years, but I can’t say life always gives grapes, there are bound to be some lemons from time to time.

I’m planning on making some changes in my life this year. Can’t tell yet if they’re for the better or for the worse. Not yet anyways.

I also made a few New Year’s resolutions, mainly as a joke, cause I don’t really like to make them (and I promised in year xxxx that I’d never make then no more).

Of course I chose almost impossible things, so I lasted for about 2 weeks (cause I’m a slave for some of my obsessions ;P). From now I’ll just hold on to my resolution I made several years ago….

Scripting is my passion still it seems. I’ve been working hard (ha!) on the Popodeus scripts, you know, the ones that are supposed to replace my Numeric Grades (+ others). Remember me mentioning that I’m planning to change a few things in life? Well, as a side-effect, I will need to find another server for my website, and I’m currently in the midst of testing it out. If it seems efficient and stable enough (I have my doubts, cause it’s way too cheap….) I’ll move everything there before the big launch of POPODEUS.
Other things hindering development: It requires a version of Greasemonkey not widely available yet…

But we’ll soon be there guys. Grand opening! I promise!

Scripts updated!

Yay,

I posted a revised version of Numeric Grades and Fine Forum helper scripts for Popomundo. They should now be working as usual, if not even better.

Nothing new added though, sorry about that, I only fixed the existing functions to work with the new layout.Since the devs have incorporated some of my script functionality into the core game, I can now remove the skill stars counter and those word-lists from the code. The scriptfiles are now also a bit smaller! Heaps of code gone, and I feel good about it.

Get the Greased machine up and running again…

Okay, so this is pissing me off. I want to code my Greasemonkey scripts for Popomundo. I really do!
But all my time is either spent traveling, or pulling my hair off in despair. Not because of a woman, nooo.. but my computer.
There was a time when I had 1GB of RAM in it, but now it doesn’t boot with the other memory module, so I had to remove it from my machine. Running Windows 2000 server with 512 MB of RAM + Firefox + lots of add-on, a JavaScript development IDE, MSN, Winamp etc. etc. Well. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE! It just trashes memory to the hard drives and is sloooooow.

I hate this! I can’t do any coding on my computer unless I get more RAM and FAST.
It only costs about 30 euros, but I’m too poor to afford it this month.
If 30 of my readers would donate 1 euro each, I’d be quickly up and running again.
(Paypal takes about 30 eurocents per transaction, so giving 1 euro leaves me with 60-70 cents…)

This just sucks!
Help a sad sod to get the greased machine up and running again. Oh Puhleeezze

Edit:

1 donation received so far from Holland! This is making me happy!

Edit 2:

I removed the donation button for now :)

Delays

Heya guys. Sorry for not having updated the scripts for a while. I’ve had an interesting and busy period in my life, so no time to sit by the computer! But this weekend I’ll roll out a fixed version that removes features that the devs have added into the game itself so they don’t need to be scripted anymore.

Oh, by the way, did you notice that Greasemonkey was just recently updated to version 0.69? Be sure to get it!

Layout change

Later today I will be uploading new versions that fixes some issues you’ve had with the latest Popomundo scripts. Also, I’m in the midst of changing the layout of my script repository and blog. Even though this current look has gotten some praise, this has only been temporary. Oh, why do all sites want to change looks all the time? Crazy!
P.S.
Retro-looks will not be available.

Changes…

I’ve anticipated some changes on the Popomundo website. Scripts will probably be broken for a few days, but the incompatibilies will be sorted out during this week. Not to worry!

Italian changes again

Small update today.

Updated the Italian numeric grades translation again.
Oh, and from this version and onwards (1.53), the numeric grades update will work again by clicking on the red blinking exclamation mark. I had broken it when I rearranged some stuff on my site.

Italian language change

I’m feeling weird. I don’t need no doctor to tell me that I have a sore throat and headache. Maybe I have the.. cold. Nice. Well, just because of that, I added one change to the numeric grades script. Any songs in the repertoire that is missing a genre will be highlighted. This is for newbies. And for us old-timers, who sometimes forget.

Italian translation was broken, so I fixed that. Revision is now up to 1.5x something…

Something’s gotta give

I’m temporarily putting old versions of the scripts online now.

• Numeric grades
• Forum helper (Integrated with Popomundo’s own search)
• Popo friends

Remember kids. I’m rewriting big portions of the code. Learning from mistakes and testing ideas, so it’s a slow process. I want it to be good. Nah, better than good!

Hello popo’ers

Nice of you to pop by. Or popo by, as we should say it ;)
So, what’s the news?
Well the good news is, I like it that my code has gotten this much attention.
The bad news is that, oh my, it has gotten this much attention!

Before I did this just for my own pleasure, now I need to think of the pleasure of others. And I just wanted to be a selfish man, like we all men are. Right?
But before we jump in bed with the new code I am about to release, I need to polish them first. I have some ideas that don’t work yet, and I don’t feel like doing it sloppy. I’m a bit of a perfectionist, and all the previous releases were just plain miserable.

I hereby declare, that the release date is:

You’ll absolutely (not) gonna love this:

It’s ready when it’s ready, and it’s not ready yet.

But I will re-release the old scripts for your enjoyment tomorrow (Sunday), so that all those who’ve formatted their hard-drives etc. may reinstall lost scripts.
Please, have some patience, and come back later. Thank you for your interest!