Tonight I decided to hit the Rollerdrome for my now usual fortnightly skate. I sat down tied my skates up then hit the rink. The first thing I do when I get on the rink is to check the grip and holy shit — my wheels did not stick to the ground. This is quite awesome because it meant one thing. The last times I’ve been skating I haven’t been able to powerslide properly; powersliding is where you put all your weight on your wheels going the opposite side to where you were skating, it also makes loud noises and sometimes sparks (if you’re lucky).

This was so great. It meant that I had pretty much the best control I could have. Reminded me of back when I used to skate at Rolloways as a teenager being able to do freaky skate shit, like diving in between clumps of people who are slowly skating around. Catching that half a second window you get between people and sneaking up to someone and letting a massive sounding powerslide go.

I’ve been skating for a pretty long time, ever since I was 13. I took it up because I really slow at running and I needed something to do in my spare time; skating seemed pretty good. Started with the learn to skate program, did all the star classes and ended up pretty decent at skating. (I will not mention that it was a figure skating class either… then again I was one of the few people that figure skated in speed skates)

It’s just so exciting feeling the air rush through you, knowing you are in complete control and you can recover from any slight slip-up with mad balance control.

I’ve been going road skating a fair bit. My recent and longest skate going at a constant speed (mostly because there was NO ONE at all on the foot/bike paths) was the following RunKeeper entry: http://rnkpr.com/a5rhfd. Of course, this skate might of effected my wheels as I was using rinky wheels instead of road wheels. My axels are fucked okay.

Looking forward to some more skating. Considering being a referee for the upcoming roller derby games. I think learning a massive rulebook to see girls beat and trip each other up would be well worth it.

And that, is how I roll.

The data will be collected by Torn XML files and it will also be manually entered if data is pre-Torn. You will be able to select a tournament, or a competition. The interface will show a table of the teams (leader board style) where the user can click on a team for a certain to break down into the team’s scores over the season, bested colour as well as other stats. Then it’ll have links to the players on the team then bring up stats for that player, in that certain tournament. It will also link to the players “global” profile, listing their achievements, teams and competitions participated in. Highest rank in x. MVP count. Number of trophies. That kinda junk.

The post production name is not set in stone, so I’m using Zone Warriors as the name.

There will be pretty graphs, no doubt about that. Also an achievement system where I am happy for suggestions. Leave a comment here or a message on the Darkzone WA forums.

In no particular order ->

• Parse Torn files generated by Doug’s Torn software (21/02/10)
• Parse different formats and/or support for manual data (for comps pre-torn)
• Usable admin / interface
• Add a site (21/02/10)
• Add a tournament (21/02/10)
• Queries!

1. Team ladder
2. Solo ladder
3. Team tournament profile (21/02/10)
4. Player tournament profile
5. Player overall profile

• Site review and related media (a profile for the site!)
• Button hookups (ID to Profile)
• Graphs (Via JPGraph and/or XML/SMF Charts) NO USE THIS!! Google Vis
• Achievement system (would appreciate ideas)
• Commenting ability
• Hook up with the SMF authentication to use as a primary source of authentication for the website
• Make the whole webpage look pretty
• Online fixtures
• Online fixture generator following Doug’s 3-team grids
• Caching of finished events
• Events! Notification via email/IM and reminders. Ability to comment and rate past tournaments! RSS/iCal compliant
• Podcast support (lol)
• Who is currently at zone? via 4sq

If you can think of anything else that I could put on it, please let me know!

One slight problem. The software that comes with is absolute crap. It’s very poorly written. It can’t even handle malformed XML and will just crash. Error handling? Jesus christ learn how to. I tried to simply import a profile via the armory and I get an AP MFC error. Why? because the image location has changed or something. How hard would of it been to, say if there was an error. 1) Display there was an error getting the image 2) Replace it with a stock image. Oh, the images? they’re STOCK IMAGES AND DO NOT REALLY CHANGE. You could of distributed them with the package.

The only problems I have had though, are to do with profile handling.

The other options in the software are okay, such as setting up key bindings, macros and junk like that. I’ve recently bought my mouse into work and bound cut, paste, hide desktop, tab forward, tab backward, build, build project and it works pretty well.

Here is my guess list from the above video. 85/100. The list is a bit messy because I was frantically writing them down. xD The music is also pretty fucking awesome.

Last Ninja 2
IK+
Maniac Mansion
Pirates
Zak McKraken and the Alien mind bender
Vendetta
Turrican 1
Arhcon
Bubble Bobble
Summer Games
???
Bruce Lee
Last Ninja 1
???
Turrican 2
???
Defender of the Crown
Asterix
International Soccer
bootcamp
Kick Off
Nick Faldof golf
Hyper games
Winter games
Creatures 2
Impossible Mission
Usagi ojuimbo
gianna sisters
????
Californa games
Boulder dash
???
Wizard of Wor
??
??
Mayhem in MOnsterland
Stunt racers
H E R O
Pitstop 2
Skate or Die
Space Taxi
Pub Games
Batman Capered crusader
Donald Ducks Playground
Rainbow Islands
Green BEret
Tusker
Shadow of the beast
International Karate 2
Midnight Resistance
Paradoid
Gauntlet
Salamander?
Blue Max
Duckular
???
???
Wizball
Dunebuggy
Who dares win
lode runner
spy vs spy
devilance
circus games?
jumpman
zynaps
kung fu master
crystal castle?
powerdrift
rick dangerous
pipe dreams 3?
barbarian
frankie goes to hollywood
ghost n goblins
lazy jones
way of the exploding fist
raid over bungling bay
decathalon
manic miner
gremlins 2
nebulus
???
???
spyhunter
turbo outrun
aztec quest
goonies
batty
preditor(?)
ghostbusters
???
forbiden forrest
???
??
commando
bc's quest for tyres
???
kickstart
arkanoid 2?
flumbo's quest

  const int XAxis = 0;
  const int YAxis = 1;

  DataTable dt = this.DataSource;

  ChAxis axis = null;
  ChAxis axis2 = null;
  ChSeries seriesValue = null;
  ChSeries seriesMoreValue = null;
  ChSeries seriesY2 = null;

  ChartSpace = this.GetBaseChartSpace();
  ChChart chart = ChartSpace.Charts[0];

  #region Grab the data from the database and put it in a couple of arrays

  List<object> listValues = new List<object>();
  List<object> listMoreValues = new List<object();
  List<object> dateList = new List<object>();
  List<object> listY2Values = new List<object>();

  foreach( DataRow row in dt.Rows )
  {
      dateList.Add(row["Date"]);
      listValues.Add(row["Value1"]);
      listMoreValues.Add(row["Value2"]);
      listY2Values.Add(row["ValueY2"]);

  }	

  object [] dateArray = dateList.ToArray();
  object [] valueArray = listValues.ToArray();
  object [] moreValueArray = listMoreValues.ToArray();
  object [] y2Array = listY2Values.ToArray();	          

  #endregion

  #region Series data
  seriesValue = chart.SeriesCollection.Add(0);
  seriesValue.Caption = "Value Array";
  seriesValue.SetData( ChartDimensionsEnum.chDimCategories, Convert.ToInt32(ChartSpecialDataSourcesEnum.chDataLiteral), dateArray);
  seriesValue.SetData( ChartDimensionsEnum.chDimValues, Convert.ToInt32(ChartSpecialDataSourcesEnum.chDataLiteral), valueArray);
  seriesValue.Interior.Color = "#FF9E00";

  seriesMoreValue = chart.SeriesCollection.Add(1);
  seriesMoreValue.Caption = "More Value Array";
  seriesMoreValue.SetData( ChartDimensionsEnum.chDimValues, Convert.ToInt32(ChartSpecialDataSourcesEnum.chDataLiteral),  moreValueArray);
  seriesMoreValue.Interior.Color = "#F7D708";
  #endregion

  #region Chart settings
  chart.Type = ChartChartTypeEnum.chChartTypeColumnClustered;
  chart.Interior.Color = "whitesmoke";
  chart.PlotArea.Interior.Color = "white";
  chart.Title.Caption = "The chart header";
  chart.HasLegend = true;
  chart.Legend.Position = ChartLegendPositionEnum.chLegendPositionBottom;
  #endregion

  #region value axis (Y Axis)
  chart.Axes[YAxis].Scaling.Minimum = 0;
  chart.Axes[YAxis].HasTitle = true;
  chart.Axes[YAxis].Title.Caption = "This is the Y-axis";
  chart.Axes[YAxis].HasMajorGridlines = true;
  chart.Axes[YAxis].HasMinorGridlines = true;
  chart.Axes[YAxis].MajorGridlines.Line.Color = "lightgrey";
  chart.Axes[YAxis].MinorGridlines.Line.Color = "#EEEEEE";
  chart.Axes[YAxis].HasTickLabels = true;
  #endregion

  #region date axis (X Axis)
  chart.Axes[XAxis].HasMajorGridlines = true;
  chart.Axes[XAxis].MajorGridlines.Line.Color = "lightgrey";
  chart.Axes[XAxis].HasMinorGridlines = false;
  chart.Axes[XAxis].HasTitle = true;
  chart.Axes[XAxis].Title.Caption = "Date";
  #endregion

  #region value axis (Y2 Axis)
  seriesY2 = chart.SeriesCollection.Add(0);
  seriesY2.Type = ChartChartTypeEnum.chChartTypeLine;
  seriesY2.SetData( ChartDimensionsEnum.chDimValues, Convert.ToInt32(ChartSpecialDataSourcesEnum.chDataLiteral), y2Array );
  seriesY2.Caption = "This is the Y2-axis";
  seriesY2.Line.Color = "#CE0000";
  seriesY2.Ungroup(true); 

  axis2 = chart.Axes.Add(seriesY2.get_Scalings(ChartDimensionsEnum.chDimValues));
  axis2.Scaling.Minimum = 0;
  axis2.HasMajorGridlines = false;
  axis2.Position = ChartAxisPositionEnum.chAxisPositionRight;
  axis2.HasTitle = true;
  axis2.Title.Caption = "Y2 caption";
  #endregion

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MSDN: Office Web Components Constants