Firefly

Posted by FireflyX on Nov. 8, 2007, 4:38 p.m.

Welcome to fireflys blog please read the whole thing or skip to the section that you wish!

Contents

-The Firefly

-Gamemaker

-StaticFire

-College

-64digits

-Stuffs

-Random Questions

The Firefly

Lampyridae is a family in the beetle order Coleoptera, members of which are commonly called fireflies, lightning bugs or (ambiguously) "glow worms" due to their conspicuous nocturnal (or, more accurately, crepuscular) use of bioluminescence to attract mates or prey. Fireflies are capable of producing a "cold light" containing no ultraviolet or infrared rays, with a wavelength from 510 to 670 nanometers, pale reddish, yellowish or green in colour, with a lighting efficiency of up to 96%.

There are more than 2000 species of firefly found in temperate and tropical environments around the world. Many species can be found in marshes or in wet, wooded areas where their larvae have abundant sources of food.

fascinating isn't it? Yeh so i decided to do some reasearch on the Firefly since i've been calling myself one for years now without really knowing much about them. Quite interesting how a creature can generate such a bright light like that.

Ok since you most likely didn't read that please read the rest of my blog below :)

Gamemaker

Haven't worked on my circus of Doom game for a while since i was having trouble with the enemy AI so i'm currently having a break from GM. I do have a plan for a future game though. When i say the future i mean probably about a year or longer. Anyway i plan to make a sims like game where you may construct your own house and you get your own car and stuff. This game will be multiplayer too. That is now my main goal for gamemakr to do that game. It will take work and time but i hope to accomplish it since my 3D and multiplayer ability is improving.

Staticfire

Nothing new to report except i've broke it trying to implement my own coding language. I was tired of doing the sidebar box code so i made a system where if i type:

{sidebar:title=Whatever}Stuffs in the box{/sidebar}

it will draw up a sidebar in 1 line of code rather than 30! Real timesaver. I also made various other things like:

{mysql:connect}

Rather than doing the connection code every time. And:

{ajax:XMLHttpRequest}

creates the function necessary for catching the data that is returned by the server in one convinient line of code.

Once i get this coding system setup properly making the site will be so much easier but untill then don't bother going on it because i can't be bothered fixing it right now.

College

No programming teacher for 5 weeks now!! What the hell happened to him to make him stay absent for that long!! So we got some cover teacher who doesn't know anything about programming so decides to spend 45minutes talking about some crap that wasn't even related to the course then giving us his life story but people in the class complained so we don't have him now we have yet another teacher who also doesn't know any programming. It's a good thing i program a lot a home because i'd have no chance of passing when we aren't even being taught :o

64digits

It seems that the staff are very inactive lately. Fsx is nver around and i've noticed that Jake and Melee don't seem to visit often anymore. DF seems to be the only one doing anything at the moment and as for V3… well i'm not even going to mention it because the subject is exausted now :p I feel as if the users don't get enough say in what happens with the site and i feel that we should since without us there wouldn't be a community here. Now i seen quite an interesting idea which phazon yoshi suggested that we make this site opensource and allow users to work on parts of the code. Obviously don't go giving everyone FTP access but just send parts of the code to people to work on. That way the site will be done a lot faster and i'm sure that there are some skilled web designers out there who are better at coding than the 64d staff but don't get the chance to do anyhting.

Stuffs

My weight keeps going up every day as usual but i now only take 4 steroids a day where i was taking 8 a month ago. I'm coming off the steroids now but i have to slowly decrease them as it's dangerous to just stop. I still have to drink a pint of the worlds most disgusting nutrient drink every day but as long as i keep gaining weight i don't mind. I don't feel so ill anymore which is good because a few months ago i felt like dying.

Random Questions

1) Do you like fireflies?

2) Do you program in anything? (and no html and css are not programming).

3) Do you have a website?

4) Are you pissed off by the way your school/college is being run?

5) Does my future game plan sound good or not?

6) What do you think about this opensource idea for 64d?

-Thank you viewing this blog

Comments

stampede 17 years ago

1) Well, I don't HATE them?

2) Mainly GM, tried lots of others (C, C++, Java, Flash (ActionScript), VB, Basic, others)

3) Yup. I do HTML+PHP+CSS a lot.

4) If I were in school, probably not.

5) I didn't read your blog carefully enough.

6) Well, lots of noob-64d-copy-sites could pop up.

FireflyX 17 years ago

OMG i don't go to school i go to Stockton Riverside College and theres people in my class of all different ages so you can't call it school. Marbs is different he goes to a school where they offer the chance to stay there another 2 years but mine didn't we were forced to leave at 16.

jsorgeagames 17 years ago

Why are you trying to get fat and taking steroids? The only reason I can think of that you would be taking steroids is to recover from an injury.

Wait… were you really really thin? That would explain it.

Nathan 17 years ago

Quote:
i've broke it trying to implement my own coding language

So erm, when are you going to fix it? xD

FireflyX 17 years ago

@jsorgeagames: Because i was dangerously underweight.

@Nathan: hmm… tonight hopefully.

Distortion 17 years ago

Great news your getting better!

I like Firefly's coz they are bugs that do not sting or buzz or do other enoying stuff.

I am going to take website making lessons every thursday. Then we can choose wich subjects we get.

FireflyX 17 years ago

Website lessons are a good place to start if you wish to go into web development. I have no idea what sort of things you would do in them because i'm self taught but definately learn html and css before you attempt any programming.

Tizag.com is a good site for beginners.

Castypher 17 years ago

I'm in a web design class, but it only teaches HTML. I was disappointed at lack of PHP. <_<

Good news is, I'm learning. I now know how to use CSS files, so I can directly customize my forums. Wheee…

FireflyX 17 years ago

Yeh i use css a lot because you can define one style and use it on a whole range of things.

Jabberwock 17 years ago

1) yeah. We don't get them where I am though.

2) yeah, HTML and CSS. No seriously, just GML and a tiny bit of Java.

3) yes. http://divinelyuninspired.110mb.com

4)Not particularly. I like my school.

5) meh. I don't like games that are like real life.

6) no. You'd have the potential for a bunch of retards to screw stuff up, and besides, the staff made this site. They have the right to, well, have rights to it.