At some point when I get time I will post my twitter feed on joped.com.

So, I started a complete rewrite a last week.  However, a few days into the project I realized I am trying to do way too much at once.  The code requires a major overhaul and with my very busy schedule it could take a few months to get it to a respectable level.  I have now taken a step back and archived my work to start over in smaller chunks.  Although I “lost” a good week of coding, the code will be usable when I reach those areas.

I should start pushing some updates to the site in the next week or so, no new features will be introduced though.  Much of the work will be backend, but will fix a few quirks on the site.  For example, the buddy list system is slightly clunky.  Sometimes it doesn’t display the proper labels for users and defaults to their email address.  Its a rather annoying inconsistency.  This is going to be the first thing I tackle followed by user account system.

After I finish a few minor changes to Jokeped (Mostly SEO shit), I am going into a full development cycle on Linkped.  I totally rewrote Jokeped reducing the code base a ton and really optimizing the crap out of it.  It now has ultra high use of memcache to the point it can run without a database being present.  Keep in mind, it normally does have a database driving it.  The only time the database won’t be present is if the site was getting slammed or the server was having trouble.

Needless to say, I need to sleep in dirty cloths tonight and need to wear them tomorrow as well.  With some lucky maybe my bag will appear tomorrow morning.  They have a limited number of flights here per day, and I was on the last one of the day.  Great.

What pisses me off more then anything is that I have no clean socks.  After wondering around my hotel for a while, I was able to purchase some dress socks.  Guess what, that is good enough for me. (For now)

I asked what the airline expected me to do about brushing my teeth and what not.  They responded with this small bag of stuff to get me through the night.  I am happy they provided it for me, but not happy I needed to beg for it.

So far Circus Circus has been an annoying hotel.  It took far too long for me to find my room.  I love how they have maps all over the place, and none of them indicating “You are here”.

I was told they have internet access in all the rooms, however I can’t find a jack and no wifi signal.  Good thing I brought my EVDO card.  The connection speed is far faster then it was last year, so I am just going to stick using it.

I am off to find something to drink and maybe a light snack.  I have a bit of a headache that I need to shake.

Well, the CC they had on file was wrong. Rather then just re-checkout, I had to go through the entire process again.

Needless to say, I went back to iTunes and purchased the tracked I wanted in a fraction of the time.  Screw Amazon and their tax evading ways.

The great thing is this application has a channel model.  It allows you to create multiple channels for whichever mood you are in that day.  This is great because I am into a large range of music.  Everything from The Doors, to Aerosmith, Type O Negative, Robert Miles, Led Zep, Disturbted, Guns N Roses, etc.  For those that don’t know, I absoultly hate country music.  The very thought makes my ears bleed.

Yet, I also suck at categorizing music.  Robert Miles is very sweet coding music, he has pulled me through some complex coding headaches.  The problem comes down to, I have been in a “club” a total of 3 times in my life.  Each time more uncomfortable then the other.  I don’t dance, so I will never attempt to.  Trust me, the world is better off if I don’t.

Pandora allows me to find new music that I like and didn’t know existed.

Its not limited to the iPhone, they also have the same service on their website.  I have not played around to see if there are any “syncing” features.  NetNewsWire has an excellent syncing feature that syncs my RSS feeds on the desktop to my iPhone.  I subscribe to a large number of RSS feeds, some of which are critical for my job.

I can pretty much guarantee I will be using it at work.  My limited music collection is starting to get a bit tired.

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I reduced the amount of code on the site by at least 40%.  Everything has been switched to a cleaner MVC.  Previously, the framework I threw together did things a little strange.  It was closer to what phpGW Nextgen was going to be.  Data layers have changed greatly since then.  I use memcache very heavly now.

When I get some time, I am going to test the site running without a database.  In the event the database goes down, I should be able to run 100% out of memcache.  Its about 90% of the way there, just need to tweak some error checking.

There are only a few new visual changes.  I cleaned up most of the forms using a generic form building system I am developing.  I am working to finish this system which I will open source at a later date.

There are tons of alignment fixes and fixed the flow of a few elements.  For example, voting is much cleaner now with a single AJAX request when posting a vote.  As sad as it sounds, I finally got off my ass and made it so you can vote without javascript.

There are no more tables in the HTML, and I have cleaned up the CSS like you wouldn’t belive.  Although its no even close to perfect, its unbelievably nicer then before.  I am working on reducing the number of images I am serving on the site.  All the forms are using a generic image set, rather then a custom background for each page.

The other big change is SEO links.  PJ has taught me a lot about SEO and helped me clean some of the crap up.  I think I am starting to understand why my traffic on jokeped.com started to take a dive after I released the new interface.  I have much work to do on SEO, however this is a huge step in the right direction.

Anyway, go check out the new version and contact me if you need any help or find any bugs.

http://identi.ca/joped

Lets see how long it lasts for me, I will need some iPhone 3G support this week.  I will go to which ever provider supports the iPhone 3G with GPS and pics.   Not to mention, I need OpenID support.

Depending on what happens I might just work on it my self.  I am already maintaining 3 sites.  I have a complete rewrite of Jokeped coming out in a few days.  To the user not much has changed, just a few minor fixes and clean ups.  Its mostly backend code and SEO.

George Carlin is by far my favorite comedian and I am very happy to say that I have had the great honor of seeing one of his shows live.  George Carlin is not only my hero but idol.  He has a way with words that is (ironically) indescribable.