Inadvertent Customer Support in IRC

I have no idea what this user was saying, I assume it's another language, but I digress:

[20:25] mia erotisi?
[20:25] ?
[20:25] 2 malon
[20:26] I'm sorry I do not understand
[20:26] xereis opo call of duty?
[20:26] I'm sorry I don't speak your langage
[20:26] *language
[20:28] keycode for call of duty?
[20:28] I don't have one sorry
[20:29] ok thenks bb

/sigh. It's so hard getting the message of a site and getting it to the end user in a form they can understand. We aren't even on the same planet.

Events Mania

I'm wrapping up polish on the new events system. I need to work on styling/themes. There are small items I need to work on as well:

• permissions, and ensuring they are respected.
• view issues making sure things look neat and smooth.
• management vs guild theme styling.
  
• adding tooltips.
• add ajax.
• add in logging.
• review security.
• add an option to allow users to display upcoming events in some sort of upcoming events queue
  

End of an Era

Sent of the FI server today and turned over my admin rights to their mail account. Wish them the best of luck and I hope that the server reaches its destination safely.

My 11 Favorite Eponymous Laws

• Amara’s law — “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run”.
• Brooks’ law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
• Conway’s Law : Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it
• Edwards’ law: “You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem.”
• Goodhart’s law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
• Hanlon’s razor: “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”
• Heisenberg’s Uncertainty principle: States that one cannot measure values (with arbitrary precision) of certain conjugate quantities, which are pairs of observables of a single elementary particle. The most familiar of these pairs is the position and momentum.
• Keynes’ Law: Demand creates its own supply (The economists’ version of Gibson’s ‘the street has it’s own use for things’)
• Parkinson’s law: “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”
• Sturgeon’s Revelation — “90 percent of everything is crap.”
• Winer’s rule of alternatives: “One way to do something, no matter how flawed that way is, is better than two, no matter how much better the second way is.”Two is more than twice as bad (Note: Thanks Dave!I need to find a proper citation for this. Google wasn’t helpful)

Totally stealing this.

Hard Work on the Events System

I have been building a new Event system for gamerDNA.com in parallel with our existing one. It will be the "crawl" version, but the basis is there for future work and eventual DKP integration.
I wanted to do this one differently than our existing PHP code structure while at the same time learning more about current PHP and javascript. Launch will be this Monday and I hope to add more dynamic interation and Ajax next iteration. We use Prototype so I need to learn that as well.

I also need to learn CSS so I'll be doing that as well in the near future.

Links used:
Old but goody - RGB Color Picker