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"Hi. We need to hire someone to install a payroll system for us. After that, we'll talk about salary."

At least they're honest.

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One of the problems with most Open Source communities is that it seems like a lot of endusers expect that they can get everything for free.  A lot of places that I try to help out with have folks who feel that I should be willing to drop everything at a moment's notice and spend tens or hundreds of hours coding, testing, etc, do it all for free, and can't understand why I and others  have a problem with that.

No new development in over a month. Pity.

Even Donncha isn't that bad, new kid and all.

A long while back, I posted a method of downloading YouTube videos and saving them to your desktop. Since then, the method has been updated and it looks like YouTube is making part of the number session dependent which means that it changes every time you view it. Lots of fun.

In the comment section of the new post is also a link to where you can type in the URL of the video you want and it will be automatically downloaded for you. Unfortunetly, I'm on a locked down terminal today so I can't try it myself. Hopefully someone will report back on it.

YouTube Downloader

edit: Fixed link to the downloader since we're now hosting a local copy of it.

Greets:

The build a store script is done. I'll test it tomorrow, kick out a few stores for the NPCs, and try to finish up the Day script sometime soon.

I'm hoping to have a final alpha release by no later than monday.

OK, you can stop laughing now. :)

Just a quick note to say that I'm working currently on the "Build a Store" script and hope to have it done later today.

Thanks,
-drmike

I need to find me an online game to waste my days at. *sigh*

Just took a look at the stats for phpSuperMarketTycoon. It got downloaded a dozen times so far this morning. I do hope that the downloaders note that it's a pre-Alpha release and not completely finished. I'm hoping to finish up later today on it. I have a few support tickets to deal with this morning.

Something strange though. When I type in phpSuperMarketTycoon into Google, I always get a bunch of Japanese websites that deal with linux. I never get the Home Page nor the Sourceforge page for it. Even though I've gone ahead and submitted those pages to Google a couple of times now. Heck, Google still doesn't see this blog. Maybe with a few more links.

edit: Just checked Google yet again. Neither this blog nor the phpSuperMarketTycoon sites are listed still. *sigh* The good news though is the project jumped from a 52k-th listing all the way up to a 764th place listing. That's neat. Guess I have a reason to work on the project now. Those 14 downloaders are now counting on me. :)

We've kicked out a pre alpha release version for review. Please note that the game does not work 100% but we're getting there.

Get it here: phpSuperMarketTycoon.

-drmike

0.02.04 - Jan 18, 2006

- Worked on the Build a Store script.
- Verified GPL and that the headers for each script included GPL information.
- Added version information to the db. Do note that this is not visable from within the game.
- Added this history.txt file. Why not?
- Added the readme1st.txt file with basic information.
- Added the version.txt file so I could keep track of which version I have on my laptop.
- Added todo.txt simply to point people at sourceforge.net.
- Added the install.txt file with the install instructions.
- Modified the template in an attempt to move the main text field away from the gray backing of the menu column. Appears to have worked. Deleted the spacer.tpl file as it was on longer used.

Somedays I really really hate coding.