awpti.org is defunct
Posted by awpti
awpti.org is defunct for now. I've been spending all of my time working on the following projects:GeekLAN - Quiet right now, because of my main project...
Ignited Jobs - A free place to post jobs. Think: A narrowly focused Craigslist.
Linux Document Project Mirror
Posted by awpti
Just finished setting up a mirror for the Linux Documentation Project on this box. Just need to wait for them to see that it fits their needs. I learned a bit about rsync while doing so - including setting up an rsync server.
Moving to geeklan.com
Posted by awpti
If you haven't already noticed, awpti.org has been moved to geeklan.com utilizing a 301 Permanent Redirect. awpti.org will now be relegated to a domain for code testing and geeklan.com shall become the new home of my personal blog and projects page (Coming Soonâ„¢)
Not much has happened code-wise, other than a minor visual change on the administrative side of awpti.org (it's still ugly, but a tad more functional than it was). I'm currently working on a semi-sort-of Project Management tool for an Australian-based company and an internal messaging system for the users of HideBehind - an anonymous Image/Video Upload site.
Most of the database work on the Project Management tool is done (at least, the painfully obvious stuff) and I've finally started working the codebase into shape. I'm hoping to make this project as elegant as possible and easily extended beyond the initial requested featureset. I'll post snippets of code as I resolve some of the more complicated issues.
Redesigning the Administrative Interface
Posted by awpti
I've been working on building a new Administrative interface for awpti.org, but it's not going very well. My limited skills with CSS and my terrible eye for design is making this a tedious, slow process. Right now, the administrative interface is a very ugly hack based on the front page of this site. It works for now, but it isn't very functional.
It's hard to find good tutorials that explain CSS in-depth. The concept of floats and relative/absolute positoning boggle me. I never know which to use and when. I detest messing with tables and will not do a table-based layout again! Hopefully, I'll have something to show in a few weeks - screenshots and whatnot.
I've also spent most of the day before work cleaning up the code and making it a hair more efficient. Haven't eeked much out of it, but there isn't much to eek out of it anyway - this site is very minimal.
Meh. Random thoughts for the day.
Admin Interface is Go!
Posted by awpti
Finally got the administrative interface near-complete. For now, I can manage (publish/unpublish), add, edit and delete articles. Once I add some user management and figure out how to handle spam filtering, I'll setup the comments backend again.
It only took about 15 minutes to throw together too. Not bad, considering the last time I threw together an actual administrative interface was.. 5 or 6 years ago!