I figured I would give it another shot and I think I’ve got a reasonably stable version of Campsite. It doesn’t seem to error out from what I’ve tested. Basic functionality is simple.
- Enter the sub domain for your campsite account (if in the url it says someplace.campfirenow.com then you would enter someplace in the field)
- Enter your email address and password, at this point it will log you in
- Choose a room to join
- After you choose a room it will load up the current chat of the room. Don’t click around or anything until you see chat messages in the display, or you will probably break it
- Type a message and click send, after sending a message it will auto-refresh
- If you want to see new messages others have typed click the refresh button
So far that is all there is to it. Its pretty simple and very unfriendly as far as usability and design goes, but that can be taken care of later.
You will need to download AIR, which can be found here.
Then next you will need to download campsite which is here
Give it a try and let me know how it works. Hope someone finds this interesting.
I have not had the time necessary to continue to work on Campsite. I really want to get this thing up and running, so hopefully sometime this week or maybe the beginning of next week I will have some spare time to throw at it.
So this is pretty lame. In flash when you see a sandbox violation you immediately think “Do I have a crossdomain.xml file to allow this?” so you then go check and if not it usually fixes it. Well, this is not the case all the time. I was trying to make a request and instead of http:// I typed http:/. By forgetting the second slash it threw a sandbox violation instead of just simply saying invalid url or something a bit more descriptive. Anyways thats my rant on non-descriptive error messages. They waste time!
It pretty much says it in the title. My motorcycle was stolen today around 12:20 PM in broad daylight from the front of the mall parking lot. It was ridiculous. I walked into the mall and came out 20 minutes later to find my motorcycle gone. I immediately thought I had been towed, but unfortunately that was not the case.
I imported in a couple of old posts from my blogger account today. They are all about programming and AS3 so not too interesting if you are here for any other reason I guess.
It’s pretty late… 1:34 AM There is a bug within Flex 3 that wont allow me to auto scroll the list that is displaying all of the chats but other than that the thing seems to be working pretty well. There is still a ton of work left to be done, but it will currently log you in to the desired sub domain, you can pick a room and chat away. It currently has to have its date hard coded because of some inconsistencies with the way I get the date and the way campfire does the date, so after I get that worked out hopefully I will be able to put it up for download. Here is a screenshot of it for now.
Yup thats right I’m continuing to work on the campfire chat client, which I’m going to call “Campsite.” Thanks to Cade (Vorak) for that one. It’s going a bit slower than I anticipated, mostly because parsing through a bunch of HTML to find the necessary chats everyone has typed is harder than I would have guessed. I started by using Regular Expressions, and realized that turning the HTML into an XML Object is a far simpler approach. Hopefully I will be able to finish that tonight. I was planning on releasing a simple Beta of the application tonight, but there is no way that is going to happen. Well more wine, music, and typing….. Oh yeah, I’m going to start up another blog for tech things so these types of posts wont end up in here where most people probably don’t care to read them anyway. More later…
Yeah so today I went to the dentist at 3:30 to get 4 fillings. Most people would say “wow, that sucks!”, but no it really didn’t. I got four fillings in 35 minutes and shelled out $250.00 to do it. The money part sucked but my teeth feel nice and new. They even did white fillings, and I can’t even tell where the fillings are. I can’t even feel them! So, my recommendation is: go to a good dentist. It might cost some extra money, but I cannot complain about the results. It was my best dentist experience ever.
So we just saw the Simpson’s movie and also watched I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Both were really good. The Simpson’s movie was awesome though. It was one of my favorites this year.
Alright this movie is by far one of the best movies I have ever seen. It is the best comedy i have seen all year.
Favorite Quotes:
“You’re a doctor, deal with it! Yeah mother fucker! ”
“Want anything from the shop?”
“YARGHHHH!”
“He’s in the freezer.” “Did you say cool off?” “No!” “It’s a shame…”
“You’re off the fucking chain!”
“Nice one Dorris!” “Nothing like a little bit girl on girl!” “Hahahahah!”
“I’ll drive!” “Shotgun!” “Punch that shit!”
“Stay back, or the ginger nut gets it!”
“I feel like I should say something smart.” “You don’t have to say anthing at all.”
“Bring the noise!”
