So I worked on Streama and actually came up with an end result worth the work I had put in, and that I liked. After some research I found that Streama was a taken domain name but annoyingly, was not an actual company or site that I couldn’t use, so I’ve had to settle for Streame.
Anyway, www.streame.co.uk is really, really simple file sharing and that’s how I’ll keep it. Check it out here.
So I haven’t posted for a long time, but since I’ve got some spare time now I thought I may as well give an update at least.
So after some HTML programming and learning, I decided to have a go at some server-side programming, specifically, PHP. I’ve got a pretty simple grasp of the syntax and overall language, so I’ve been working on a very simple project to get me started,which I’ve named Streama.
You can check it out at streama.thomasgoodenough.co.uk but for now, it remains a sort of beta. The idea was to create file sharing that has the shortest possible time between going on the site, and the file being uploaded. Obviously this leads to compromises such as no login and thus some issues to do with privacy, which is why it’s just that: really simple file-sharing for files that don’t need to be private, and of course my own limitations in terms of my knowledge of PHP meant that I was never going to create a full registration and login system on my first project.
However, I am still updating it and sorting out bugs whilst adding more features, and hopefully in the future a password-protect system for files. For now, though, it remains just a project at:
streama.thomasgoodenough.co.uk
So I haven’t blogged for a while, with being back to school and more work, but I have been reasonably busy with a project I started recently. I was playing around with Football Manager (which, by the way, is a great game) on the PC and thought I’d try my hand at some ‘manager’ style game programming, using Visual Basic, considering it would be the easiest way to create something without too much serious work, and also because of the fact that I’ve got next to no knowledge of C.
I decided to create a rugby manager game, under the name, which I’m sure would breach many copyrights if I was to release this game, of ‘Aviva Premiership Rugby Manager’. Anyway, I’ve got a pretty decent start with the overall interface, and an autosave system which I’m working on right now. I’m currently looking at the simulation aspect of it all, so that each individual match is simulated with an outcome dependant on a rating for each team, which I need to also work on.
So a pretty long post, but since I hadn’t blogged for a while, and this project seems pretty interesting, so follow the posts I guess to see more about the game, which I should put on my ’Other Dev’ page?
So I’ve found the answer to the question my previous post posed; it is possible to pull all of your social networks together, in applications for iPhone and for the Mac, namely ‘Socialite’. Don’t think I’ll be using them just yet, though, as they are reportedly slow, laggy and defeat the object of gaining a faster, more user-friendly experience when checking all those social networks.
I also looked at making such an application, but unfortunately, it seems that Facebook and various other social networks don’t like just anyone making use of their APIs, so for now, my problem remains.
Such is the impression of social media on the web today, that I find myself continually increasing the breadths of my online presence as more services and websites become available to me. That’s fine, until it begins to demand a larger proportion of your spare time…
WordPress seems confusing. And interesting. But mostly confusing. I’m currently rewriting my website out in HTML whilst simultaneously struggling to learn how to use WordPress. I’ve no idea whether this will become a regular sort of blog or just an unprecedented place to offload what I’m doing to whoever might happen to be interested.
Anyway, 3 more pages of my site to rewrite. It’s currently stored in a directory that I’ll shift into the regular www directory when I’m done, so it should be live in a couple of days at most. Watch this space for regular updates I guess. 