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New Blog direction, brief game reviews and a neat toy i want.

First things first, I'm gonna try and change this blog to more of a Gaming information site. For example I'm gonna give a brief overview of games that I've been playing and stuff that I'm looking forward to whether it be gaming or techy.

Novatel GSM Mifi 2352 - Once i get the money for this, I will get this bad boy. You've probably seen the Sprint or Verizon commericals for this. Well there is a GSM version of this and its Unlocked and all you need from what I understand is a data plan from your GSM carrier. Once you have that your now able to provide a Wifi signal for up 5 devices using your cell phone signal. I don't have a need for this considering I'm usually near a computer and a landline connection but it would be sweet to have. Once I acquire one of these I will be posting a review.

Batman: Arkham Asylum - I just picked this up today. Though I haven't beat this game yet, from what I've played of it (a few hours), this game is amazing. Its got stealth, action, eye candy for DC comic fanboys. I might start reading all the Batman comics to update myself on whats going on. I'll give an update on to how my thoughts are after beating the game. I doubt they will be negative.

Shadow Complex - I downloaded this game and so far its going great. I would have been happier if it was only 800 MSP ($10)instead of 1200 MSP ($15), but then again I'm a cheap bastard. The great thing about this game is that it pulls off the 2d but not-so-much 3d world so great and lets it be a platformer. I hope they have more games like this in the future.

Madden NFL 2010 - Now I've only played a few hours of this game and it has been in CO-OP and in online games. Both of which were just poor in my opinion. Madden NFL 2010 is here and if the online is the only bad thing then ignore my grips. First of all the online C0-op camera is FUCKED, pardon my language but it does not help out AT ALL!!! While your on defense the camera is placed behind your team and is only focused on your player that your controlling not where the ball is. The online feature is alright, nothing special. I hope to have more time with the single player experience tomorrow after work.

Alright I think I have ranted enough, feel free to follow me on twitter @coed234. Also if you want add me on Xbox LIVE, coed234, send a message first with your request please.

Finally Workign again

I finally have some time to work on this site, I am not sure how much I will be changing right off, but I have found some new php vids that are helping to learn more and hopefully either tonight or tomorrow I will be applying some new stuff to the site, weather or not its useful or directed at the end site. But there may be some things added just for testing/learning pourpouses.

Banner, Themes, and busy...

Hello, Im still on board, just been busy with work and my other love (Xbox 360). Since my last post I've worked on a banner for the site, got a few banners I've made and still working on a overall theme for the site instead of the blah look of it now. I hope to make some more contributions on the site aside from blog posts I just have to submit my works to Stone. The reason for it taking a long time is because its been years since I've worked on a site and I have forgot how much work it takes to upkeep as well provide content. Also working with Photoshop is difficult as I have never really got the hang of it. Well thats about all, until next post. Bye.

Session, Login, Logout Working!

This morning I just about finished the entire login scripts. It seems now that a User can register, login, and logout. More will still need to be done to clean it up but the bulk of that is done. Off to work will post more later tonight or tomorrow on my day off.

Sessions

Been having trouble with setting the session vars, I am able to do it, however I cant figure out exactly how to pull data from an SQL query and then save them into those vars. I have been looking online for different ways to do it and every way I have found dosent seem to work. I think its a version problem of some sort...I will keep plugging away at it. Maybe I will ask the site I am hosting with for input see if they can help.

I have wednsday and thrusday off from work and plan to spend a decient amount of time working on the site then. I hope to have alot accomplished, even if its not the login. I can work on adding movies, actors, genres, etc.

Registration

The registration page is nearly complete, John (coed234) and I are testing the registration. I have added a check for passwords to match the confirmed one. The sql for adding it to the database was trickey but after a few tweaks its working. I had an issue with the phone number column on the database I had originaly set it to an INT which dident work after john added his user with a "-" so I changed it to a txt field and exteded it to 12 chars long and added on the registration page a format at the end (xxx-xxx-xxxx).

Next thing on the agenda is to work on adding session vars so once a user is loged in they stay loged in.