Unfortunately my blog software doesn't currently support links (actually the specific problem is my TinyMCE isn't configured to let me put in links ...) so you'll have to copy/paste this for now:

http://www.survivethedeepend.com/zendframeworkbook/en/1.0/

It's a real cool online book about Zend Framework.  I've been reading through it and I've really liked it so far.  Check it out, and I need to tweak my TinyMCE to be a bit smarter!

An abrupt busy turn has caused me to not have much time for the Creation Engine as of late.  But a recent project did lead me to develop something new and cool -- check out my new jQuery Image Map plugin.  It allows you to turn pretty much any HTML element into an image map.

Something that I have been working on for awhile is the Creation Engine.  It's a game creator written in C.  It's taken on sort of an odd iterative development; I'll do a bunch of programming, get to a point where I'm not happy, and then pick it up again about a few months later taking the components that were good and building on it.

Well, I'm at it again -- this time, however, I'm working on just consolidating the "best of" into a library which I will then publically release.  It includes several things I use all the time: a SQLite abstraction layer (which could be expanded to any DB abstraction layer -- though SQLite in particular makes for a good game DB), big endian/little endian conversion functions, fast threadsafe queues, and my multi-thread network server.  The whole library is threadsafe and designed to be speedy.

Once this is released, it could be used for any number of things beyond games.  The network server in particular is interesting; it runs in it's own threads and communicates with the rest of your program using queues.  It could, feasibly, be used to make any kind of software as just a plug-in thing.  And of course when I'm done, I'll be once again trying to get a game together!

I've been working more on the Tanabicom site.  My blog now has pagination!  Not sure if Google will be able to pick up on my paginators, though, so I need to figure out how to integrate it into my sitemap.  I have thusly figured out how to integrate it into my sitemap!  So that's not a problem anymore, hopefully.

That being said, still, it's something else to (mostly) check off my list.  I need to get an RSS feed working, too.  But otherwise this site is pretty much done.

My public SVN server is up, too, and a few projects have links to SVN repos.  In general things are improving, and I'll be releasing this site's code soon as well.

As a general note of "darn", Zend Framework 1.8 is considerably different than 1.7 in a number of ways.  This site is firmly 1.7 and in fact won't work with the 1.8 code base.  Complains about the autoloader!  I'll worry about that more later, 1.7 of Zend Framework works great anyway.

This is a random topic but I figured it may be of interest to anyone with a similar problem.

I got an Asus EEE PC 900 from my friend, and I installed a Ubuntu variant called Easy Peasy.  It lives over at http://www.geteasypeasy.com/

In general, it's quite awesome and I was by and large quite happy with it.  However, the wifi performance was terrible.  It was showing me at like 30% strength in the same room as the wifi router -- even less elsewhere.  It didn't exhibit any of these problems when it had Windows XP on it meer moments before.

So I looked around, and followed a fix that I can't find again -- it's similar to the backport driver fix here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Fixes

It worked a lot better -- now the signal strength is right, but I find it still drops a lot.  My workaround -- ping a local machine.  If you constently ping a local machine it seems to keep the wireless from cutting out!  However, I'm going to try the NDIS solution on the link above just for fun.

(EDIT: The NDIS solution makes it work perfectly!  :) )