Today was in scale of ez to spacefucks from mars, crazy. I went to work about 30 past 7 am and left about 15 over 6pm... I can tell you, it sucks, my back hurts, everything is crappy. Luckily we made some good fixes and there should not be any problem regarding this sunday. So I think I can say mission successfull, but I won't not until I can confirm that everything is ok. /rant mode

Then on lighter side of things, I acquired NX-8060 power supply for my pc and it's great, 1000% more silent my pc, that is. Also bought wacom tablet for my honey, she was surprised...owned :)

So the JavaEE course is now behind me, I think I succeeded pretty much in every front imaginable. Seems that I shall be getting another fiver to add to my track record :)

• I learned Struts
• I learned Hibernate
• I learned DAO-model
• Others
  • Extended usage of Interfaces
  • Abstract classes

Of course all in all, this great platform for further enhancing this blog. Now I just have couple of loose threads to tie and I think I'll have pretty solid platform. Then I think it's time for visual goodies + plugin and theme support.

Ha, managed to finally fix that notorious relative url problem with tinyMCE. Here's what I did, instead of using:

<a href="javascript:tinyMCE.execCommand('inserthtml', false, 'LINK AND IMAGE URL');>IMAGE</a>

I used:

<a href="#" onclick="tinyMCE.execCommand('mceInsertContent',false,'LINK AND IMAGE URL');return false">IMAGE</a>

I think it had something to do with inserthtml being standard moz DOM command and mceInsertContent being tinyMCE's own command. For some reason inserthtml did not regard convert_url rules at all.

 Just as when I was thinking that the next weekend would be the one to rest and recuperate, only I did not know that I massively failed on that assumption. No, it's work work for Mr.Antti as our deadline is approaching, testing needs to happen and we need to assure that everything is consistent. Bus ride home today did suck like a megaton, I were so pissed that...Goddamnit. (Not that I believe in that old fart.) Well anyways, I know that I have rather importat duty to attend at work but come on, man needs some rest now and then (now the all non-believers are saying "grave grants the rest").

Well anyways luckily we're having some great action going on the Civilization 4 - Beyond the Sword front with grelbar, so I can rest my brain and hack that away. Tomorrow is the deadline for my JavaEE course, supposedly I'd have to draw some kind of an class diagram but I'm in no mood to create such diagram, 130 classes for fucks sake. It's only 5 points and I think I have gotten most of it. Self-studying secrets of Hibernate and Struts and that to be honest is enough for me.

Steven over at the Anomalous Anomaly have composed nice and detailed list how the browsers score on the Acid 3 test. Results are pretty much as you'd expect them to be. Firefox 3 beta 3 doing pretty OK (69%) while the latest build of Safari for Mac OS X 10 scores nice 90%. But then it gets excited, well interesting as IE 5.5 leaves its younger brothers IE 6 and IE 7 behind not by much (2%) but leaves them behind nevertheless. Interesting, how so archaic browser could pull something like that off? Beats me

Had to take news service offline, there seems to be some nasty bug that manifestes it after while, a long while that is. I'll put it online soon as I have fixed that bug.

We did some cleaning, ordering and throwing stuff, useless junk away, when I found my 'lost' N800 Internet Tablet. I promptly (after the cleaning stuff  :)) to update it with latest IT OS 2008, which by the way is damn sweet compared to the older 2007 version. New version also enables some speed enhancements and allegedly "overclocks" the cpu a bit, to match the speed of the N810 brother model. Well anyways I still haven't found any great us for it except occasional GPS usage and odd game chess or two during long travels.

But check this out, I pimped it with some sweet Star Trek theme:

Now my N800 is all futuristic and shit, geeky I say, geeky and that's how we like it around here!

Update

damn image urls change faster than I change socks, actually it's a issue with tinyMCE but I am working to fix it, that is sometime tomorrow, or not.

Managed to punch in categories management system about 5 minutes ago.

*Update*

...And in my infinite wisdom, I managed to break the frontpage cache, doh!

Due to me having this domain of mine (ours) it is once again possbile to offer this wonderful service called BulletNews. So go now and see for yourself!

And when we all thought that days of trivia would be past us all, at least when it comes to exams at school. I mean at this level (university of applied sciences) you should not have to answer questions like: what said on the line xxx on the picture xxx on the book xxxxx. I mean come on what purpose does that serve? For one not learning I can say you that much. I have adapted this method of learning broader spectrum of things, getting the grip of the overral sight, how things work, what affects what and such. All this rant comes from today's exam of IT-leadership / management. The subject is really intriguing and interests me much and top of that I know that I want to do that for living. But the exam was really lack luster damnit. Although the material and the teacher was superb in terms of quality and know-how. But I just feel really much letdown from the exam. I didn't do that good, I'll pass but It really eats me to take a second hand grade from first hand course. GRRR!

A managed to scrape up a new UI for this blog, I kinda like, being fresh and all. There are couple of quirks that I have to attend to but this can do for the moment. I also fixed locale not changing completely when you change the language from the header. Of course there are other numerous fixes but I won't go there this time. Wish I could write more but I have this kinda tight schedule here for tomorrows exam...

Makers of Desert Combat modification for Battlefield 1942 engine and the research team of Battlefield 2 are back. Back maybe stronger than ever, their latest game Frontlines -Fuel of war draws upon strengths of DC and amps it up to what seems to be the most addictive & innovative team based tactical shooter. Not only have they managed to create game where reaching the objective needs team effort but they have managed to get in all these very sleaky and futuristic gadgets, like drones.

Drones can either make or brake your teams offensive in tight cornered city maps where hiding spots are plenty. But throw in a surveillance drone to map the enemis out on your squad members hud and you definately just got yourself and for your buddies a leverage that you'd surely need. There are other kinds of drones too, like attack drone with either light machine gun or mortar embedded to top of a moving platform, or small attack drone helos.

To counter the drones EMP role comes very handy with an ability to plant EMP emitter to the field that disables drones and prevents spotters ability to call in air strikes. Of course those emitters can be destroyed with sheer brute force but it could present to be a hard task if enemy is defending their point with force. Then there's this ground support role which comes handy if you like driving vehicles or point defending capture points as GS role comes with blowtorch to fix rides, machine gun / minigun emplacement or automatic sentry gun / railgun emplacement. Those are sure to shred anyone that tries head-on approach a new one.

Apart from roles there are 6 classes: assault, heavy assault, sniper, anti-vehicle, close combat and a special ops.

Assault has a assault rifle with underslung grenade launcher, 4 grenades and a pistol.

Heavy assault trades the assault rifle for light machine gun.

Sniper has a damn powerful sniper rifle and a handgun + some nades.

Anti-vehicle relies on rocket launcher with seeker heads.

Spec ops uses mp5 derivated sub machinegun.

Close combat relies on auto-shotgun and nades.

To cut long story short, IF you liked DC you certainly want to try this one out asap! For myself I can only say I did! Available on 7th here in Finland, about everywhere else available now.

P.S. You can download the game from here right now! No need to wait for 7th