Well I spent a few days making a Jukebox. The player is finished and is capable of playing any MP3 file. The actual Jukebox needs work. It has 90 songs only, no search, and no playlist. I'm making a playlist feature so you can make playlists, and obviously making a search feature.

I made the player with flash and the Jukebox with Javascript/PHP/MySQL. I also made a script to run through the jukebox and "validate" all the songs to make sure the links aren't broken. It deletes any broken links. Extremely helpful.

The reason I'm posting this is because I'm proud of myself for achieving this since I'm not actually great with flash. I hope to expand the library to around at LEAST 2,500 songs in the next few months and after that I will update it when I feel the need.

On a side note, people have been telling me to add their IMs to MSN. I do not have MSN, but my Yahoo! and AIM are ledi51 so catch me on one of those.

I've also noticed that there's no BBCode here. I've made forum systems and I could make a BBCode system in minutes, if anybody's interested.

Well, not that anybody really cares about me or my progress, and not that anybody on this site really knows me, but I'm kicking this blog thing off.

So on this blog I'll be posting my progress on my MMORPG, Deathblade and other related subjects. Maybe sometime throw in some randomness that has nothing to do with it.

So I got it started and working, I had a whole bunch of maps and whatnot, but then Griever announced the coming release of XRealms 2. Obviously, I had to get that so I deleted my MMORPG and started planning for the new and improved Deathblade. I drew out maps, areas, and enemies. I didn't draw out anything in TOO much detail because it's so much more fun when it's not planned out to the last period.

Of course, Griever had some life issues, and XRealms 2 was pushed back a few times so now there's no expectancy date that I know of. I planned a bit more and then waited. I got into other things like making people websites for $$ and making flash games/projects and mostly updating my own websites.

I actually considered making a Flash MMORPG. It may not be as easy as XRealms, but it'd be a heck of a lot more customizable and more like a personal signature. I knew how to make it, using my MySQL database. I could. Plus MySQL is a lot faster than local FlatFiling which XRealms 1 in VB was coded and if I'm not mistaken X2 will be. I'm not going to underestimate the power or speed of C++ though. I got a bit into that too. I checked a C++ book out of a library which came with Dev_C++, a noncommercial C++ coder/compiler made in a college, or so the program said. Maybe DeVry?

Anyway, C++ is extremely fast and powerful, but flash isn't slow either, and with flash I could either make a downloadable client like XRealms or have it be Browser-Based. Or both. Plus I'm a better with flash than C++ anyway. I had to return the book after a month. I learned enough to make a few basic C++ apps though. Like a calculator, and a short text RPG.

For now, I'm going to stick with X2 though. Maybe someday I'll make a flash MMORPG, or maybe even a C++ one. For now, I have a lot going on and I don't have much time for core programming.

So that's concluding my first blog post. Hope you check up, it'd make me feel bad if nobody cared and I was just writing this for myself.