Fire Studios

Dear Readers,

This week has been quite strange and, actually, enjoyable even with all of the odd happenings and events. Which is a nice change of pace because since school started back it's been nothing but one set-back after another, but things are starting to fall into a routine so I can start getting more work done each day. This week had a lot of updates and things that had me checking stuff off my "to-do" list.

Week Review

FS - This week I managed to get a lot of technical and back-end stuff done for FS. I edited the styles to be completely cross-browser compatible all the way from IE 5.5 (well, there's the PNG error, but I'm not too worried about that). I took all the plugins that I have activated and edited them to be valid both XHTML wise and CSS wise, in particular was the Google Syntax Highlighter which used to have a few IE errors but now displays correctly in all browsers. I spent most of yesterday (close to 3 hours) making all the PHP/HTML/JS files become "gzipped" and "minified", since my host doesn't have gzip enabled by default, but now everything is working and making FS load about twice/maybe 3 times as fast as before.

Life - Monday was Labor Day and thus I had no school, but what made the day even better was that I finally bought a PS3(80gb)! I have 2 games for it at the moment, and will get more on Monday when my next check cashes, Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock and Call of Duty 4. I've been playing both now for awhile and have gotten really good at GH3 (I'm playing on expert with Hyperspeed 5). And the rest of the week was typical school -> work -> chill. But last week school had to be closed one day because 4 bridges flooded over and 85% of the students had NO way of getting to school, which was cool, but the Superintendent of my area decided to make up that day today (a Saturday). I also got my drivers license on Wednesday, so now I can drive without an adult in the car (but only from 5am to 9pm).

Future Events

I am working on my next feature post "How Web Developing helps you as a Student"[working title] and should have it done around Wednesday. I might look into posting it on some high-traffic sites like Freelance Switch, which would bring in some extra cash, but am still undecided since their terms say I can't post it anywhere else for 9 months.

I'm also working on getting everything put together for FS's podcast FS Air but I've still got some copy to write (the main flood gate holding FS Air back). Be on the look out for it soon though ;P .

Sincerely,

Jonathan "Fire G" Wolfe