RealLife.exe Has Performed An Illegal Operation…

So, here I am, 1pm. I woke up at 5am. I continued my work on the administration page for OjaiCMS. Before too long, I realized what time it currently was. Talk about being productive.

Turns out it is raining outside. I didn’t know that. Turns out it is sunny outside. I didn’t know that either.

Being a noob to actionscripting, I would like to post a solution I created for a problem I just could not solve. Now, before you laugh at me… ok go ahead and laugh.

The problem: The system needs to automatically convert a users input on the fly and filter out bad characters for display in a second text input box. Spaces should be underscores.

The solution:
private function generateSlug( pageTitle:String, target ):void
{
target.text = pageTitle.toLowerCase().split(" ").join("_");
}

I am using flex in case you were wondering. Hope it helps someone.

Well, I’m off to finish what I was doing, but first I need to eat.

My New Year’s Resolutions

Well, it is now 2007 and I thought it would be cool to map out my goals for this year. So, for the amusement for everyone, I present the list:

• Finish OjaiCMS and ready it for distribution.
• Launch Marching Band!
• Transfer this blog over to the new site.
• Find an apartment to live in.
• Become more socially active.
• Get a job as a computer support person.
• Find “the one.”
• Produce a full length student film.
• Contribute more to Wikipedia.
• Stop going to digg.com so much.

Well, that’s not everything, but I don’t want to bore you any further. I would love to hear your new year’s resolutions!

Gamers / Marching Band! Update

Ok, I said the other day that I would post a very special update to Marching Band! Sadly, I’ve been too busy to even work on OjaiCMS (the system behind Marching Band!). I have been working somewhat lazily on the next film project of the year, Gamers. The script is in it’s final form, apart from a few minor updates here and there.

Filming will take place this Monday, the 18th.

If you have a conflict with this, please let me know so we can work something out. This filming session will hopefully be more productive than the last one. And will not require a re-shoot.

Marching Band! – The Worlds First Online Marching Band Simulator

I guess you can now say the cat is out of the bag. This is another part of the huge announcement I will be posting soon.

Registration has begun for Marching Band! Claim your account before someone else does for you. You will be able to login by the end of the week. Don’t worry about forgetting about the site, all members will be notified via email when the beta begins.

About the game

Marching Band! is the sole creation of Troy Whiteley (that’s me if you didn’t already know). It started as a joke many years back in high school marching band. Little did anyone know that this day would come when band geeks around the world can compete in one location. Marching Band! was built using the soon-to-be public release of OjaiCMS, a dynamic content management system capable of running multiple sites under one installation.

Once registered for the game, you will be asked to create your school. From there you must recruit, train, and compete with your team. More details about this to come…

Why Marching Band?

Let’s look at it this way: there are lots of high schools around the United States. In California alone, there are thousands of high schools (grades 9-12) [source]. Some of these schools do not have bands, but most do. If you do the math, there is an extremely high number of people who perform with a marching band. This means that there is a large number of people who could be interested in a marching band simulator.

It’s just a market that has sadly only been targeted by ma-pop t-shirt, cheap video production, unhealthy food folks. Why no one has made a full blown video game about it is beyond me. But I do plan on being the first.

So what are you waiting for? Go sign up now!

Help Wanted :: Graphic Artist

A graphic artist is needed for an upcoming project to be anounced later today or tomorrow. For more information, please call 805-633-1051 or message me:

aim: jark4life
gtalk: dawnerd@gmail.com (You may also email me here)
meebo: dawnerd

Project details cannot be publically released yet Yes, this is part of the biggy update.

Lots of New Updates

It’s been a week, I think, since my last post, and to prove that I am still around, I am posting some updates. Wii!

To start, I am going to name the biggest and most important update of the week. I have spent a good four days working out the best way to create a user friendly navigation system for OjaiCMS. I bring to you, the first public demo of the system. When you click on a menu item, sub choices will appear. Everything is loaded in the background using AJAX (just like Gmail). The breadcrumb under the header also updates live. There are some bugs, but those will be fixed shortly.

Second on the list if the awesome concert put on my some group from Niger. Pictures from the event are in my gallery (they are the last ones in the set).

To really kick off the last week of school, I had to go to my last high school football game, and was the drive a pain. Took us nearly four and a half hours to get there, but only two hours to come back. Not only was the ride long, but the bus driver kept the lights on, forcing us to stay awake.

The rest of my week was all personal business that is personal? Special update to come in a few days

OjaiSoft Live – OjaiCMS v2 Comming

I have been working hard the past few days on two projects of mine. The first being the OjaiSoft website, and the later being the second version of OjaiCMS.

The second version of OjaiCMS will contain a number of features that many content management systems are missing. I cannot go into much detail about the specifics due to the early stages of development. All I can say is that OjaiCMS is being re-written from ground up.

As for OjaiSoft.com, suggestions? I would like to make the site the best it can be, and I can do that better if I had some suggestions. In the mean time, check out the OjaiPost.

OjaiCMS Getting Much Better

I have been working very hard with the owner of Free Fun Guides to be the first website fully powered by OjaiCMS.

The templating engine, which I threw together quickly, works very well. I am going to be getting a server up really soon with a demo where you can mess around in the admin control panel. However, I still need to add a lot more modules.

Go check out the Free Fun Guides website to see the page manager, tabs, and template engine in the works.

Now able to create pages with OjaiCMS

You are now able to create pages with OjaiCMS. This is a big milestone for the project. I will be uploading the first beta to sf.net and Google Code within the next few days.

I also plan on a proper project website. If anyone would like to assists in it’s creation, feel free to contact me.