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Oh my....

Sunday, 4. June 2006, 21:19:36

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have 11 hours already past?and i'm still not done. Due to a horrible bug which would make user crazy i decided to post-pone the release of the widget :frown: but i think i will release my js control tomorow and then the widget won't be far behind :smile:


Ohh yah...thanks for posting..now i know that i have an audience of 0 :up: so that means that i can post what ever i want P:..keep tunned because the next time i will post something about the quick browne fox and how....much it.....

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Swobu

Thursday, 18. May 2006, 08:31:12

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More needs to be doing? This is the 1st thing that comes into my mind when i think about my situation.You may ask(or not) why is this so?Well because i put in some killer hours getting everything done, at work and as a freelancer too :D . Anyway let's forget work and talk about, well....work, but this time I'll talk about the work done by Tmchenry aka Word. He single handedly finished the 0.2 version of the Comic Widget which can be downloaded in the widget section. I helped him out with the interface and some scripting, but he did most of the work so a big big thanks for that, and the surprises don't stop here, he keeps making it better and better... :up: :up: so that all the widget loving people can enjoy a nice refreshing comic when they open their Opera browser.

So that's about it for good news. Work on the Comic widget is going on and if you would like to include your fav comic in the preset list, please do NOT hesitate and post a comment here or in the widget's page.

Work on widget's has not stopped on my part, i started to make a new widget yesterday and have like 10% done, hopefully this time i will be able to finish it. This widget will provide a functionality that OPERA is currently missing, and thus i thing i should hurry up with it...so that i can release it before the nice nice people at Opera, implement this function into Opera.

I'm also thinking about finding some time to write an article over at the Opera Wiki, since nobody really did write anything yet, and it wouldn't hurt to help new widget creators with a tutorial which is not the usual "Hello World". I shall have to find some time and write it up on a piece of paper and then post it.

That's about it for this edition of Widget Workshop(hm...need to change the title, not enough widget related stuff is going around here)

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Work,work and more work

Thursday, 4. May 2006, 08:51:36

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As of the 2nd of May i now work part time at a web development company, as a PHP coder :D which is a good thing, but this means that i have like no spare time. Anyway...i just wanted to download the fuzzy clock today, because i like need it :smile: and what did i see when i clicked the new widget's tab? I saw the Calvin and Hobbes widget. At first as i was a bit shocked...then i realised it is a bit selfish from my part to claim copyright over the Comics Widget, so i decided not to get angry at borjamari for modifying one line in my Comics Widget and the submiting it.
So anybody wanting to use/modify my widgets please be so kind as to say somewhere that it is based on my work so that i too can feel helpful.

So until i can find some free time to make the new Comics Widget please feel free to post any widget derived from it, but don't forget to say that it is based on my work.

And for anybody wanting to get their fav widget displayed in the Comics widget,just download it, unzip it and then find the line where it says:
img_url="http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/20"+y+"/ga"+y+month_str+day_str+".gif";

and replace that with the url of your favorite comic, and because most of the comics are displayed on a daily basis you will have to replace the
day with day_str
month with month_str
year with y, please note that in the widget y is 06 and not 2006, if you want to use 2006 instead of 2006 just add "20" to y as i did in the code above :smile:

So if you have something like 
img_url="http://images.ucomics.com/comics/tmntf/2006/tmntf060504.gif";
then you shoudl replace 
2006->[b]"20"+y[/b]
06  ->[b]y[/b]
05  ->[b]month_str[/b]
04  ->[b]day_str[/b]
so it looks like:
img_url="http://images.ucomics.com/comics/tmntf/20"+y+"/tmntf"+y+month_str+day_str+".gif";

Have fun :smile:,hope this helps a bit.

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Operation OW2T(Progress Report)

Wednesday, 12. April 2006, 19:43:40

another day, another post.
Progress report:
My widget for the contest is almost done like 70%, all it needs is some more Ajax, and bit of testing to see if it has any bugs(hope not). Unfortunately i won't be able to use the computer tomorrow..so the next time i can work on it will be on Friday.Hopefully missing one day will not make much of a difference in quality nervous

So see you people on Friday...hopefully with a complete widget. Until then I'm printing my source and reverting back to the old and tested method of writing code on paper, and testing it in my head(hm...that's gonna be fun :worried: )

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Widget with a story

Monday, 20. February 2006, 21:05:10

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Today i was talking to one of my friends, a FF user, and i told him i started making widgets for Opera and also started trying to convince him to switch from the bad FF to the good Opera :D . And as we where talking about the differences between FireFox and Opera i managed to convince him that Opera has everything he will ever need, but then came the that famous reply:

Opera doesn't have this, but Firefox has an extension for it


,a reply which i personally hate. So i asked him what was his favorite extension, and he replied Fuzzy Clock. I was stunt at first,I never heard of a fuzzy clock(i imagined some big old analogical clock with pink fuzz around it..), but after some digging i found out it's a type of clock with doesn't display the time like a normal clock, instead it displays something like "ten to six" instead of 17:50 or 5:50 PM.

Anyway to make a long story short, i decided to make the widget and it has been submitted to Opera for approval so that my friend can have his Fuzzy Clock in Opera and so that other people can use it too.

Finally it's posted, after a big of trouble with the submition service the Fuzzy Clock is now available and can be used Download it now

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The journey begins

Saturday, 18. February 2006, 19:35:08

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Even the longest journey starts with the first setp


With that in mind i "published" my 1st widget hope people will like it.
So now i can say that i made a widget it wasn't as hard i as thought it will be, the only real trouble i had and still have is the design i'm more of a coder than a designer so that's why it looks so...bad.

But if you want to see a some daily comics in your Opera then try the widget. Comics Widget

It's on to the next widget for me.

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