{"id":98,"date":"2008-05-19T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2014-01-25T18:01:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T22:01:18","slug":"minor-updates-and-future-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/19\/minor-updates-and-future-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor Updates and Future Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent the past couple of hours researching VPS (virtual private server) hosting. It&#8217;s apparently the next step up after shared hosting. This site isn&#8217;t at that level yet, however, I suspect I&#8217;ll probably need to upgrade if I keep creating web apps. Anyway, I&#8217;m not sure I really made any progress. There are a lot of VPS hosts that look nice, but they&#8217;re either too pricey ($100+ a month) or I get horror stories when I Google things like &#8220;[hosting company] sucks&#8221;. It&#8217;d be nice if my current host offered VPS hosting, though according to their forums, they don&#8217;t plan to do that anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, over the past week I&#8217;ve made a couple of minor updates. I&#8217;ll enumerate them below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/games\/snake\/\">Snake<\/a> game was updated to use a snazzy <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/yui\/\">YUI<\/a> loading dialog (see image below). The loading time is strictly taken up by div creation. I create 2000 divs so the snake can grow without any pauses when you &#8220;eat&#8221; the red dots. There&#8217;s probably a better way to do this, but I haven&#8217;t thought of it. Also, a lot of little updates were made to the Snake game, however, you probably wont notice the difference since it&#8217;s little stuff that only I&#8217;d care about. I know I said this before, but I&#8217;m now officially leaving this game alone (with the exception of bug fixes and possible significant performance improvements).<\/li>\n<li>The dual-thumbed slider bars on the <a href=\"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/software\/colorfader\">Text Color Fader<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/software\/gradientimage\/\">Gradient Image Generator<\/a> were updated so that the thumbs will move when you click on a color.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/images\/snake_loading.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s Next?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thining of making a couple more simple web apps for the site. Right now that&#8217;s just what I&#8217;m into. I spent a few hours this past week reading some tutorials on <a href=\"http:\/\/jquery.com\">jQuery<\/a>, and it looks really cool. After that I may do some C# or VB stuff. The programming section of this site recently became more popular than the software section, so I&#8217;m thinking I should probably try to expand that more &#8211; though I&#8217;m not sure what angle to take (the old VB stuff is what&#8217;s pulling in the visitors). I may make some quizzes, those were fun back in the day and they&#8217;re easy to whip up, but I don&#8217;t want to get ahead of myself.<\/p>\n<p>I think the <a href=\"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/forums\/\">forums<\/a> are officially dead. They had some good exposure. I just don&#8217;t think they were targeted right for this site&#8217;s audience.  Plus there seems to be database issues. Oh well though, there were a couple of interesting topics. I&#8217;ll leave them up for the next week or two, but after that I&#8217;ll probably take them down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent the past couple of hours researching VPS (virtual private server) hosting. It&#8217;s apparently the next step up after shared hosting. This site isn&#8217;t at that level yet, however, I suspect I&#8217;ll probably need to upgrade if I keep creating web apps. Anyway, I&#8217;m not sure I really made any progress. There are a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/19\/minor-updates-and-future-plans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minor Updates and Future Plans<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}