If you have been keeping up with the headlines over at DanRichard.com and GreyCobra.com, you would of known that today, August 1st 2006 is the launch date of Pixel2Life.com‘s Hammer Time project. After months of planning, thousands of lines of code, and late night coffee trips, it is finally here!

Everyone is excited about today – even for myself as a main developer on the HT project. But when is the real time of launch you ask? I am afraid I can’t even answer that one for you fellas as much as I would like. We have to still do some tweaks, optimizations and little things to make sure everything runs smoothly before we allow it to the public. 😉

During the upgrade process, the site will be inaccessible from any direction. I recommend you to keep close watch over DanRichard.com for the latest updates that Dan posts about our progress toward the upgrade completion.
Well, I am off to work, where I can hopefully meet up with Dan and NG later to finish this project and send it packing to your screens! Today is the day, and remember that! So strap on your parachute pants and get ready for Pixel2Life v3 – Hammer Time!

This past week I was on a Mission Trip in Georgia with my church.  It was a work camp where kids from all different middle/highschool church youth groups from all over the country ( about 400 kids/adults ) and worked on homes in Valdosta, Georgia.  Experiencing such work through God’s eyes was amazing for the residents were the sweetest with pure hearts and good intentions.  It was some what hard to be away from the computer all week, luckily nothing bad happened while I was gone, server had 100% uptime all week which is good.  That 1GB RAM upgrade really came in handy that I requested a few weeks back so that is all good now.

Came back.  Put my cell to charge, dumped pictures from camera onto my PC and then signed on then IMs started pouring out like crazy.  It was hard to get back into the work desk mood but its a switch I do a lot when I come back from my “vacation”.  If you call waking up at 6:45 AM to annoying songs and painting homes from 8:30 to 2:30 fun, be my guest, but it was a very relaxing and things that I look forward to get outside and breathe the real fresh air once in a while 😉

I am also proud to say that I got a promotion over at Pixel2Life.com!  I am now an Administrator on their community forums!  Go me!  Things should be rolling out with Hammer Time ( P2L’s Secret Project ) any week now.  I am looking forward to the public release – same for the private beta release.

All in all, it is good to be back home.  The seven hour drive to and fro was a bit hecktic, but other churches had 18 hour drives so I am thankful for that.  Me and my girlfriend were both out of town ( she was at a canoe camp ) so we could not get intouch with each other.  She called me when she got the chance and I just realized that tomorow is our one month!  Go me again! So I am off to go order some flowers to go send to her door since she will be working tomorow all day.  Atleast when she gets home, she will have something pleasant to look at until I come see her!  Hope to blog again soon, I just realized its pretty long.  hehe.

Wow, It has been a while since I posted on my blog. I am such a bad boy… 🙁 Let me give you a summary of what I have been up to. This will surely answer most of the questions I get in emails asking about whats going on in my web development world.

Pixel-Designz.net
I have not touched my own homesite in a while. I am changing my server soon in anticipation of v4 when I am done with all my very very sketchy summer projects. When I release v4, I will definately be on more writing tutorials and giving it a facelift. I have seen some ideas that I liked this summer thus so far and I am loving it. I will be posting a feature suggestion form to get input from the visitors. I have even got several requests for the script to be bought? Nice try guys, custom job. 🙂

LiquidxHost.com
The hosting business is still going a little weak but LXH is definately picking up in business. I broke even for the server a couple weeks ago and I am planning on expanding onto a new server due to the high traffic load on the client’s sites to relieve server stress. But for right now, I just ordered some upgrades to stabalize the server a bit.

Pixel2life.com
Yes, the secret is out. I have been mainly working on Pixel2life.com. Dan, NG and I have been secretly working on a new feature to add onto the P2L website codenamed: Hammer Time. Even though I would love to post lovely screen shots and tell details of what it entails, you will have to wait until it launches, which should be within the next couple of weeks.

Clients
I still do the template coding, site transfer and fixing the script deal. It is enough to keep me alive with all my expenses, mainly because I have not been able to advertise LXH as much since I have been busy with some other works in the making.

Thats it for now, I will post some more things soon and try to keep you guys updated!

Finally, the last day of school was this past Thursday and guess what: FRESHMEN SUCK! Anyways, just checking in as usual. Now that I am free from school, I can code as much as I want which is definately a good thing since I havn’t been doing as much as I wanted to with my academics in the way. I hope you guys are in for some treats, cause I have a few tricks up my sleeves to release this summer 😉

Ive been very busy lately, havn’t even got alot of time to post on my own blog! Anyways, I’ll give you the run down what has been happening in the last month or so.

eCybermission:
Remember that contest that me and my two friends entered?
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Well, we won something…AGAIN! We placed the same spot as we did last year, which is 2nd place in the entire south east region of the US, and we got another $3,000 dollars in saving bonds. This time around, my mom asked to get interviewed by the local newspaper, and they were interested, believe it or not. So we got interviewed along with our teaam advisor. So when that gets published, I will sure let you guys know!
Check the project out:
http://www.notanotherportfolio.com/eCybermission/

Lastest Client:
My last client, which was a very interesting one was at http://www.droppinglist.com DroppingList is a site in which has the daily domains that are expiring and dropping. So if you are domain hunting for an old domain that might be worth something for your next site, you should go check them out. When I last checked their database, they were around 2,500 domains, but that was a week ago. 😉 Trust me, the database will grow.

Pixel-Designz
My website, http://www.pixel-designz.net is still going strong. I’ve spent alittle bit more time on it getting some things and bugs done, but not that much as I wanted to. I am in the process of brainstorming for the v4. Possibly will get that done over the summer. Its gonna rock! I love my playground! 😉

iCodeLayouts.com
I’ve recently bought a new domain – http://www.icodelayouts.com. This site is going to be a basic service site, you post job request to get your layout coded by muah, and I get it to you. Of course, I still charge my standard flat of $30/css/xhtml layout, but we shall see how that turns out.

iCodeScripts.com
I’ve also bought another domain – http://www.icodescripts.com. This site is going to be a partner in crime along with iCodeLayouts.com. On this, you would post a job request for a script/site/etc and I would code it customly for you. I am still debating on how to work out that system, but I am sure it will be well worth it.

TutCMS
Wow, that is going along really well. I’ve got a entire nice plan going out for it, planning out how its gonna work and such. It is looking really cool from my point of view. Even though I don’t know if it will be a freesource script or licensed, its going to be a really nice addition to the tutorial community.

Other FreeSource Scripts
I am on the final stage of the ACMS ( Affiliation Content Management System ). All the back end coding is all done, just to put it all together and such. It is going to feature alot of new and updated stuff – coded for the newer servers vs my other scripts when I just started out coding. This will definately add a new look on affiliations, making the ndlinks system obsolete.

Secret Projects
Within the last few days – a lot of new projects have popped into play. I’ve got a few deals going on here and there, but as much as I would like to tell you guys what it is – I can’t. 😛 They include from small scale projects and side tracks to entire large communities. You will have to just wait and see until they have been revealed. 🙂

Happy Mothers Day!
To all the good moms and non moms out there, I would like to say a happy mothers day! I wouldn’t be here without you mom! Much love. =)

Anyways, I hope I can become more active on the blog again, with most of my projects starting to being developed, and finals next week, I will try my hardest to keep you updated!

For now, cya!