I am just posting to say that this site is going to be shut down on February 1st. A new personal site might pop up but that probably won't be for a while. Writing this blog and coding the small apps that I have just seems like a waste of time to me anymore. I think that my time would be better spent doing other things such as my schooling or getting a real life again. There isn't really much else to say. Sayonara.

Got the pics uploaded and titled. I am just going to use Photobucket to host the album. Well, I will heading back to ISU on Monday. Later peoples.

http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e312/ryochan7/ISU%20move-in/

Yo spiders. I am just posting saying that I will be back in Peoria later tonight and I will be uploading some of the pictures that I have taken of my little adventure so far. Unlike other times I say that I will do something, I most definitely will post pictures in the next couple of days.

Also, I am messing around with hosting on WebFaction. I will probably only keep an account with WebFaction for two months. So far, I have had a very good experience and Django apps run great on their servers. Right now, my old RedTube Downloader app is running but it should get replaced soon.

http://ryochan7.webfactional.com/

Tomorrow is my move-in date. I have found what the mailing address would be for the dorm so I put that into the Domino's site to find out if a Domino's delivers around the area. There is one that delivers, including for online orders, so I will now be supporting Pizza Py Party again. I don't know how much work will go into the program over the next few months. I would like to clean things up as the current approach that I am taking with the program requires too many separate lists. I would like the information in the lists to be joined and have a closer relation than just relying on index numbers.

I know that most people would want a GUI version of this program and I have thought about it. The major problem would be making a decent interface that wouldn't be extremely bloated and cluttered with a bunch of buttons. The GUI should also be lean as far as how much code is needed to write it.

I don't know how but this blog is now getting a lot of posts lately; I certainly didn't have anything to do with it. This is now the month with the most posts and there are over two weeks left in the month. The blog will most likely become dormant again as school starts up on Monday and it will be a completely new experience for me since I will be going to Illinois State University.

Inspired by the popular program Pizza Party, Pizza Py Party is a command line program for ordering pizza from Domino's. Here is a list of some of the major features of this program:

• Runs on any major operating system supported by Python
• Utilizes the new Domino's online order form
• Can be used at locations that the old QuikOrder site doesn't allow, such as my hometown Peoria, IL
• Can use batch files for ordering many pizzas
• Supports the use of online coupons
• Can read default settings from a configuration file
• Unattended / background operation
• Pizza Py Party is licensed under the GNU General Public License

Changes since 0.1:

• Positional arguments are now handled so Pizza Py Party now has command-line syntax that is more similar to Pizza Party. Check the documentation for more details
• Added more crust choices and edited topping choices to correspond to the changes in the Domino's website
• Trimmed down the code by around 100 lines
• Pizza Py Party is now licensed under GPL version 3

Download: http://bored.homelinux.net/projects/pizza-py-party/pizza-py-party-0.2.tar.gz

Documentation: http://bored.homelinux.net/projects/pizza-py-party/man/

Credits: Travis Nickles (ryoohki7 AT yahoo DOT com) - Author Cory Arcangel (cory AT post-data DOT org) and Michael Frumin (mfrumin AT eyebeam DOT org) for making Pizza Party.

This release fixes the issues that arose from the most recent changes to the Domino's web site. This application is still unsupported until I can actually order pizza from Domino's again; the Domino's closest to my house no longer accepts online orders.

Download: http://bored.homelinux.net/projects/pizza-py-party/pizza-py-party-0.1.1.tar.gz

For more info on what Pizza Py Party is, check out the post on version 0.1. http://bored.homelinux.net/?p=18

Edit: The Domino's that I ordered from beforehand no longer exists. I don't get why it is still listed on the website though.

Yo people. It looks like the Domino's site has changed just enough so that Pizza Py Party is now broken. I am actually messing around with developing the script but I don't know if a new version will come out of it. So far, it seems like only one portion of the script is broken and it should be easy to edit the old script to get it work again so expect a fix shortly. Pizza Py Party will still technically remain unsupported though. I would like to support this app again but I won't do so until I have a way to actually test ordering pizza from the Domino's site. I know there is a Domino's close to the dorm that I will be staying at, Hamilton Hall, so hopefully they deliver to that dorm so I can support this app again.

Edit: I should finally mention that I put Pizza Py Party on Launchpad. https://launchpad.net/pizza-py-party

Man, I just found out that saving a page in WordPress overwrites the .htaccess file with its default .htaccess file. Why the hell does it do that when editing a page? The .htaccess file shouldn't even be touched unless I am explicitly editing the permalink structure of the site. Because of this and other quirks that I have mentioned before, I will be getting rid of clean permalinks on my blog. Man, WordPress is now starting to get on my nerves.

Edit: After removing clean permalinks, WordPress has gotten noticeably snappier.

Just wanted to mention that this blog has been upgraded. It now uses WordPress 2.3.2 as opposed to before when 2.0.11 was being used. The blog seems a little snappier and I might actually take the time for enable url rewriting to allow for clean URLs. After all the time that I have used Django, I am tired of seeing URLs with query-strings in them on my blog.

Edit: It looks like clean permalinks will work fine for my current site. There were some initial conflicts with my Django apps not being accessible but those issues have been resolved now. Explicit rewrite conditions are put into place to allow the apps to be accessible.

2nd Edit: On second thought, WordPress seems to be more system intensive with the latest update especially regarding memory usage. My server can't really handle the load of rendering pages well anymore. The CPU peaks for a couple of seconds when rendering the index page and uses up around, sometimes over, 10 MB of memory. WordPress was always at the point where it worked well enough to use but the latest update has put it over the limit so I am not sure what I will do. If I had the money to buy a new server or to put this site on a web hosting server then I would do that. It would make things a lot easier.