Kyle M. Perkins

That's the motto for my brotherhood, Pi Lambda Phi, and today marks my 2 year anniversary of being a PiLam Brother! While today is a day for celebration, a number of things have also happened today.

While still cleaning the apartment for the inspection, I also got a lot added to the blog and did a lot in the apartment today. For example: I shared a video link and enabled a video player on the blog. I modified the Flowplayer code from the F&I site, along with the Flowplayer API documentation, and allowed for videos to be played on the blog. The current structure of the code may be a little long-winded, but it works for now until I find a better method to make it work.

I've also updated the Tweets with an AJAX-ified version so the blog loads a lot faster. The original code I wrote actually reads the RSS feed generated by Twitter and parses each entry as a "tweet." If Twitter has an issue with producing the RSS feed, then the blog would take a while to load and could take up to 10 seconds before a timeout is produced. The new way loads the page first, then loads the tweets with a limiter a second after loading. In a sense, it makes 2 small requests instead of 1 large one, so the processing method is faster. I also added a "Tweet" feature to each entry so the entries can be tweeted individually. Nice implementation if I say so.

I also completed the book interview sheet late last night and sent it in along with a few forms. I received a notification from the author saying "Thanks for your response. Yup, the questionnaire is a wee bit detailed, but I figured more info is better than less. Thanks for taking the time." I can't wait until the book is published to see what is said about me.

It seems like tomorrow should not be Monday, but I guess I better make the best of it.