Four Island

Okay. I have big news. INSTADISC IS BACK. Well, it's coming back. After a half year hiatus while I felt sorry for myself (and worked on FourPuzzle which I never posted about), I finally thought of something. A way for InstaDisc to work.

I seem to recall InstaDisc dying because it's Push notification only worked for a VERY small number of people (a.k.a. just me) and without Push, InstaDisc was pretty much a highly convoluted RSS replacement. However, my work on FourChat, the Yaplet replacement that never really surfaced, led me to realize an alternative to server push.

REVERSE AJAX.

Okay, it's not actually Reverse AJAX as I'm not using JavaScript, it's Comet. But I like calling it Reverse AJAX. Anyway, Comet is the way! I have been rewriting the InstaDisc Central Server in C++ and Comet seems to work perfectly. Yayfulness.

So, you may be wondering, when will InstaDisc be completed? Well, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I am actually already nearly done with Central. There are only 3 API functions that I haven't yet implemented and after that, there's just the testing period.

The bad news is, along with Comet, the InstaDisc specification has changed. A lot. Because of this, the Client will have to be majorly rewritten. I'm thinking of scraping the original code and staring over in C++. So that will probably take a while. Plus, the Update Servers will also have to be rewritten, but that's not much of a problem as they're small.

So, InstaDisc is back. YAY.

Oh, and by the way, Ohats Is So Dead.

Woohoo for FourFiction fanatics! FOURFICTION IS TEH LIKE OMG SADLLFH!!!!!!!! ....okay, just breathe Starla, it'll be okay.... Lol

YES LIKE OMG I LOVE YOU ARE YOU MADD?!?! - 3 vote(s)!
no - 1 vote(s)!
Jordin Sparks! - 2 vote(s)!
Indifferent - 2 vote(s)!

Anyway, YAY! And like, totally a note: This week's poll isn't as random as it appears.

Lol, time for another short randomness. Today, I was thinking about how Makefiles didn't have to be used for compiling programs, that they could be used as a recipe for anything. Then I thought, "I know! Let's make a cake using a Makefile!"

all: cake topping
$(COMBINE) cake topping

topping: butter milk brown_sugar salt
$(ADD) butter 115g
$(ADD) milk 60ml
$(ADD) brown_sugar 220g
$(ADD) salt pinch
$(BOIL) 3m

cake: wet_mix dry_mix
$(COMBINE) wet_mix dry_mix
$(BAKE) 350F 75m
$(COOL) 10m

wet_mix: eggs sugar vegetable_oil vanilla
$(BEAT) eggs eggs eggs
$(ADD) sugar 400g
$(ADD) vegetable_oil 355ml
$(ADD) vanilla 10ml

dry_mix: flour salt baking_soda
$(ADD) flour 375g
$(ADD) salt 6g
$(ADD) baking_soda 5g

The recipe described is the Caramel Coffee Cake from Wikibooks. Let it assemble before using the linker. Enjoy. Lol

A SIDENOTE: When writing this post, I was trying to indent the command lines in the Makefile so that it looked right, but I was tricked by my own code: My pre BBCode no longer preformatted the text, &nsbp; was converted into text, and the <UL> indent trick messed up the formatting. I tried adding a BBCode that preformatted the text, but I was unable to commit as, on my development computer, I'm currently working on the new layout for Four Island. Finally, I thought of making a transparent image and putting it on Four Island Other. It workded.

I haven't posted in a while, and I was feeling rather insane, so I wrote a list of ten people you don't want to receive a call from. In order from worst to best. Best being relative, because you don't want a call from them. Obviously. Anyway, it's a comedy. Weird.

1. Samara Morgan
2. Ellie Layton
3. Your mother's ex-husband's son who thinks you're hot
4. The washing machine repair guy
5. Your toaster
6. Charlie the Unicorn
7. GlassCo, the leading company of making glasses of water
8. Skype Test Call
9. Mary Poppins
10. Your ex-boyfriend who's now going out with your sister

Whew, that felt good. I'm way too formal on my blog, I have to let go sometimes with random posts like this.

EDIT: Btw, I found out what was wrong with the POTW. When I did the Facebook poll, I must've pressed submit like three times because there were three records from that poll in the table, so everything got offset and ick. I deleted the naughty records and realigned the others, so the POTW should be healthy again.