After 11 months of work with some holidays here and there it’s finally summer-vacation. Or?

I start my vacation with taking the 2 last days of work free and go to Sweden and go on my grandmothers funeral. And after that it would be only slacking? I think not. Summer-vacation means more time to spend on coding! So of course me and Arood is hacking on W3sidan.net. And instead of working on the new version we’re bringing some of the new functions from the new version to the old version. Huh, this means a lot of work. Because the to two versions are built in very different ways, so it’s like translating one language to another. But it will look awesome in the future.

Right now some of the new things are in place, and soon some more will join them. Like our new short-url-function. http://w3s.se/Idt Awesome!

I really miss my new 27” iMac with a 24” screen beside it though. I dont really like coding on my laptop because I end up using trillions of windows and after a while it’s just getting confusing. So I better go back to Norway soon.

Here we go again. Now I’m and Arood is developing the new version of W3sidan, 3.0. This version will hold a whole remake of the site. From top to toe. We’re changing from XHTML to HTML5 and to CSS3 and rebuilding every single code behind it.

And while we’re at it, we’re also changing database from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Which for me is a lot of fun. I like playing with databases, most of the time (Except when search-functions which involves a lot of JOINS and Subqueries is involved.). They are quite much alike except for some minor things which I had to experience the other day. By some reason PgSQL doesn’t have the Last_insert_id() function which MySQL have. After a bit of googleing I found a few solutions, the other one better then the other. And I ended up with this:

INSERT INTO table (name, surname) VALUES (‘Erik’, ‘Thunberg’) RETURNING id

and then just make a fetch after the query. And I actually like this one better than Last_insert_id().

We’ll try to have the complete site out of development before july hits us because we’re both going on a social event called Minigeek Camp where we’re going to do some advertisement for the site.

And if you want some sneakpeaks or come with ideas, join us in our IRC-channel #w3sidan at our own IRC-net, irc.w3sidan.net.