Pokemon Website

Im thinking of starting to work back on the website, since ive been busy working on other projects, although im not married to any of them yet. Ive always been amazed at the idea and mechanics of a social network. Building social networks is all about grabbing the attention of the user and creating a socially addicting environment. When i complete the content of the website on ThePokemonProfessor.com, Im going to fully integrate a social network into it. A place where you can request friends, ask to battle (same mechanics), find breeders, set your professions(!)[meaning that you can set 'breeder' as a profession and easily be searched by that. but when you choose breeder, you have to pick the categories that your breds are in for insite SEO] etc etc. all that fun stuff.

When it comes to privacy & filter issues, you can set it up so you can only be requested by users who already have a Battle ID.

I've always been fond of using PHP to set cookies but recently, the more i think of it, the more user interactive i can be if i use Javascript to set my cookies since i can say that if a log in cookie is set, fade out a button, or make a button inactive. using PHP i can really only choose between showing the button and not showing the button.

I have yet to see smogon, bulbapedia, marriland or serebii integrate anything social into their website. This will give me a leg up on the competition. ill write more later

Facebook SDK

WOW, the facebook development kit is like a completely different language. Its so hard to understand. Ive been trying to make a basic facebook framework but to no avail. To get peoples pictures is like 3 lines of code, to add a like button is a lot more and its all so complex. in order to get peoples friends.. dont even get me started.

what i wanted to do was make a way where i can easily extract someone profile picture. The way facebook API works is that everyone has their own facebook id. its like a 7-9 digit number, sometimes longer so what i want to do is make a php class that can be done like this:

class->getFriends("192817265");
or
class->getFriends("me");
or
class->showPicture("me");

i want it to be that simple but everytime i try, something goes wrong and im about to retry right now. i have to get ready for work in an hour and a half so lets see how this works out

thoughts on 6/8/12

A little background story: So Jamie and I went to the movies this past sunday and i finally kissed her! after all these months, finally i created something. The next day my ex asked me if i could drive her home so i said maybe, she said ok ill take that maybe as a yes and since i didnt have a reason to say no besides i dont want to, i ended up driving her home. When we got to her house, she leaned in for a hug, so i hugged her back and then as we let go, she pecked me. To not make it awkward i just said goodbye and she left and went inside. I drove home and continued on with my life

The next day on a tuesday, toni told seline, and seline told jamie. Now lets take this time out and explain this. When it comes to ruining my life, Toni is anything but short of ideas to stop me from talking to girls. Toni knows she cant talk directly to Jamie so she chooses the next best thing, Seline. Toni knows that Seline doesnt really know when to be quiet, whats a secret and whats not, and shes best friends with Jamie. All of this adds up to one common denominator: Seline is the perfect messenger. Toni is talking to Seline because Toni knows that whatever she tells Seline, she will run and tell Jamie.

Back to the story: So on Tuesday, Jamie texts me and says how i kissed toni the day after i kissed jamie, which is true and i completley understand why Jamie is mad, but at the same time i dont. Because Jamie has been saying all this time that she just wants to be friends she just wants to be friends but whenever i act single, she wants more but thats just her nature. Between the stories she tells me and between what i can gather just from personal experience, Jamie lives by the all american girl motto: she wants what she cant have. But when it comes to this, i just cant find that common denominator. I act like i dont want her so she will want me, and when i finally think i have her, i turn around and start acting like i want her and then she doesnt want me back and im not planning on pretending i dont want her forever.

So now me and jamie kind of got into ... not a fight but it want a one sided exchange of my emotions. I told her things i didnt want to tell her in a million years but with me joining the military and all, hey, this could be the last 5 months that i ever get to see her so nothing is stopping me from telling her how i feel even if she doesnt feel the same way. Which she doesnt. So right now, either way the wind blows doesnt really matter to me. Sometimes i wonder if she doesnt like me only because im going away. Kind of like a non-conscious mechanism to avoid getting hurt, which doesnt phase me all that much since i want to be the last person that hurts her. After all this exchanging, we now stand at just friends, which is all weve been since just before that Black Sunday which now stands as the Worst Victory ive ever had. 

Moral of the story: I built up all of this. All the nights talking to her, all the nights sharing how we feel, all the i love you's and the fun times on the phone or in person, just, everything was too good to be true, and it was too good to be true. I had it so well that i could almost hold what we had in the palm of my hand but now as i stop to think about it, how much really was there? Nothing? When your trying to grasp a hold on some thing thats not existent, when do you know that you really have it? I thought i had this all built up but the love that was there was only a figment of my imagination. A thought that i developed that i knew would give me hope for a better future but in reality, it was nothing more then a thought, nothing more then my imagination running away with me.

Facebook and the School Systems

The thing with school systems now is that students are so restricted to the people they have to share an education with. It seems like as technology grows bigger and more advanced, the friendship with the people we already know grows stronger. It should be more then that. The relationships you know with people that you dont know should grow more as well. The more people you talk to, the more the brain thinks, and the more creation will occur. Great thoughts happen the more you socialize.

How it works:

You sign-up on the site with your facebook account, Ensure that your graduation year and your school is correct, and click signup. on the actual site, you can choose which school district you want to see peoples facebook's. A list will be shown where you can scroll through peoples facebooks who are in that school and click the request button as you scroll and see people who you find attractive or interesting.

For advertisement for the site, advertising can stay at a minimum since the only thing i need is to create a way that the site can be liked and it automatically shows up on their wall, which then other people can click and visit the site.

Signing up is extremely easy, i can make the API automatically fill in the signup form. In reality, the site itself is going to be pretty basic, not many pages that i need to create at all and the site basically works itself. Now monetizing the site is going to be pretty tough, if even possible, unless i wanted to make ads on the site which is kind of a big no no for me. The site will still be worth money because it will have a (hopefully) large database of users.

Sachem CRT

this blog is mainly to get things out of my head and into the cloud which we call the internet. If anybody except myself actually knows that i am a web developer (something i keep to myself for fear of people knowing) You will know that the biggest things i strive for is Simplicity, User Friendly,  and most importantly: CENTRALIZATION. This is the most important thing that i strive for in a website. I want everything that you need to be in one place and with my new [almost] complete sachemCRT.com website, i am making that goal possible. There are a few things as a CRT that you need when taking care of someone elses computer. You need:

1) information on how to actually fix it.

2) tools to fix the problem

3) communication with the customer

explanations: 

1) information on fixing the problem - On the site, i am implementing an articles database where i will write articles explaining how i fixed problems and even students can write articles on how to fix a problem. If a problem cant be found on Google then the CRT's can refer to the database to find a problem that possibly another CRT found. The longer the site is around and the more CRT's use the site then the larger the database will grow. Hopefully after a few years, the site will have a large enough database to be self sustainable. The teacher can assign us projects to write an article.

2) tools to fix the problem: The site has a built in software center where i put up programs that help us monitor, debug and get rid of problems like anti virus, anti spyware and programs to speed up the computer.

3) communication with customers is crucial. As a matter of fact, I recently signed up for a software service that allows me to turn eligible wireless routers into a hotspot to make some extra money; they emailed me and said that his name was marko and he will be my account manager and if i needed any help or had any questions, i just had to email him. <<-- this is a fricken amazing idea. If there were sayy 3 CRT's assigned a certain part of the alphabet, they would get 9 letters each. whenever a person with the last name of the letter they are assigned to signs up, that person will email them saying that they are the account managing CRT of their account and if they need help with anything, they can email them. This is the equivalent of a real world situation of EXTREME customer service. A workplace that places the customer and a good experience over the monetary value of what the customer is and since the customer here at Sachem has 0 monetary value, then customer service should be at an all time high and this is what it should be like.

thoughts on the new project idea

Ok so take two. since i  got rid of this post on accident. This idea i had earlier sounded better in my head then when it came out when i was explaining it to my ex girlfriend, she said she didnt think its going to work and even though shes my ex it seems as though she is pretty supportive in the things i do and gives some fairly good feedback. If its a good idea, she'll tell me. If its a bad idea, well, she'll also tell me which isnt a bad thing at all.

So lets try to get all the ideas from my head to this blog right here. What im thinking of implementing and although my thoughts are dull, im not dead set on leaving the idea of making a social network for teachers. You dont know how many times ive been talking to a teacher or over here a teacher talking to a student asking "do you know <insert name here>" and the reply is, more then a good 75%, a no. Especially all those new teachers that come in. What if there was a way where i could create something along the lines of socialschools.com (cant, since that domain is already taken). A place where teachers can create a website where they can talk to other teachers in the same school. A way to make it 1000x times more easier to categorize teachers according to their school district. A place where they can blog and view each others blog. Post up part or all of their curriculum and being able to have teachers comment on it. View all the teachers in a school under a certain. It seems as though teachers who arent the most outgoing are so closed off from the rest of the schools. Information is so not in the open that it seems a little un fair - to the teachers and the students as well. What is the point of knowledge if its so confined to one person? Information and education has to be the number 1 most unselfish thing. The way i look at some people is even though they have 0 impact on me and i will never need to hold a conversation with them in my life, every single person has some sort of information that is valuable to me. And every single teacher has something that is valuable to another teacher but they information just isnt out there; it is only in the manifestation of their own brain.

What is might be like: So, as a teacher, after a day of school on a friday night, your sitting home alone. Open your laptop and check a few emails, you think of that conversation that you heard two teachers talking about earlier today, so you log onto the website and see a pretty attractive front page. You read about the features and the capabilities of what it can do and decide to sign up and give it a try. Shortly after you start inputting information into the signup form you come across the email field. It says that you can only use a Sachem.edu email address, luckily, working for the sachem school district, they have supplied you with one. You complete the form and sign in for the first time.

On the social home page, you put in a picture of yourself, some information and some background on yourself and click next. Your then shown a short list of other teachers that you might know, you click request and wait for a response. In the mean time you start to look at your channel and discover that you are able to post up status's and create blog posts. Post up your curriculum, plans for that day, or a funny story that happened while you were on your lunch break and have your teacher friends comment on it.

Seems like the more i think about it, the better it is but the less i think about it, the more the entire project sucks and i think i know why: yeah there are some good ideas but there arent many GREAT ideas. The more time goes on, the more i am confident that a great idea will arise.

Thoughts on May 26th, 2012

By the end of the day, everyone is going to remember my name. Its about 12:20 and yes, my body is exhausted right now but my mind is up and running. I think the main cause of the normal insomnia this evening is that there is a girl named jamie that i am trying to date and it is becoming a lot harder then i planned it out to be. She recently broke up with her boyfriend and she gave me the "i dont want to fall in love again and get heartbroken" excuse of why we cant date right now. I had suspicion that we were in the friend zone but she pretty much reaffirmed it when she said that. Yes, i was kind of heart broken but she is so pretty and tonight she told me she was going to a party and no im not the jealous type so i didnt really care, its not like we were suppose to hangout today so im in no position to tell her what to do. Im just sitting here at now 12:24 talking about absolutely nothing that no one really cares about but me. But back to the point, shes at a party and i texted her "hows the party" and she said her and her friend hooked up with the same guy but at different times. My stomach dropped a bit but thats OK. It just sucks. But even though when im down in the dumps i always try to keep my head up but this time my head seems a little too heavy for my shoulders tonight. Not sure how im going to sleep tonight since i have to get up for work in less then 6 hours. On better news, im working on a website for my computer repair class. The website creates a centralization of all the computers in the class with administration account, Computer repair technician accounts and even normal everyday user accounts. On the website i created a way that the admin can see all the computers currently in the classroom, which ones are finished and which ones are in progress, along with all the computers not even being currently worked on yet. When the customer comes in with the computer, a computer repair tech comes over, directs the customer to a computer and helps them fill out information regarding the computer, the information then goes into a database with the status of 0. A non busy CRT can then log on to his account, see any computers not currently being worked on, click the "take from shelf" button and then go take the computer. Doing this makes the status equal to 1 or 'currently in progress' according to human terms. Also doing this will make the customer information on the screen be highlighted yellow. When the CRT is done he can click the "finished" button. An email is then automatically sent to the user regarding that the computer is finished and ready to be picked up. Its actually pretty cool. Also since the class is in a high school, -- holy shit i just got the greatest idea. how about making a "facebook" for teachers. I can start with my school district first, which is easy since i can make it so the email they sign up with is sachem.edu which only teachers are aloud to have. On the site they can share their curriculum. I can even make it so that students can view their page and teachers can post their school work and notes but to students, the ENTIRE social part of the site is gone. But if you have a teacher account, you can message, chat, view pictures, the works. im going to write more about this later. this totally changed my shitty mood. If there is a reason why my name will be remembered, its this. This is potentially huge.

Background Information

So likeee. 2 years ago I woke up one day, around april, may and realized I want to accomplish something because I couldnt remember anything that I started and actually finished, so I was like "DING! Ill play pokemon and catch all of them" so I started playing one game, and jumped to another game and then I started looking battles up on youtube and saw how advanced the game rele is, so I looked up a few websites and there's 3 main competitors so I said hey I can make a better website then these, so that's where it began. I started designing it on paper, drew some pictures, learned more about web development, and then recently, within the last 8 months I realized that it will take me forever to do it by myself, just to do 1 took me like all day, and im not spending almost 700 days trying to complete a website, so I made my own databases and forms and told people that I will pay them if they input data into those fields, so toni started doing it, did crazy amounts of inputs, I think its around 422 pokemon which is around 60 bucks worth, so then I got jacqueline involved in it, and then got troy weinrich involved and I just payed jacqui for last week and troy and jacqui are getting paid on Thursday. Its a lot i know, and I feel like I haven't even gotten started lol.

Stand Still

Right now the company is at a stand still, I've been lazy with coding because I can't get something to work and have to rewrite the 100 lines of code and HOPE it works. Sucks. If it doesn't work im gonna get kinda mad but that's ok.i wrote my first check for $12.20 i feel like a boss, and then i went and bought 2 binders, 1 to keep track of all my databases just incase something happens, i have them on paper which doesnt spontaneosly disapear, ever. And the other one is to keep track of all the payments for people. I send them a receipt with the count and the net pay, plus the YTD count and the YTD net pay. Good stuff, tax free. Even tho im not sure if the IRS would actually come after me or start asking questions.. hmph. Right now the budget is 100 bucks, could go up, could go down, not sure, depends on the money I get from work.

The difficult parts...

<p>The most difficult part about successfully running the website is to find people to actually work on it. One person with enough ambitions to create a website that's 10x better then the top 3 competitors on the internet is no small task, especially when ur challenged with the fact that when its all said and done, it still could be worse then the others. I have a few things going for me that should make my website better then all the others:</p>
<p>1) the website will be more organized then any other. I've realized that on all of the main competitors, smogon, serebii and bulbapedia is that all the information is on one long page. To find what you want, u have to scroll down. Moves? Scroll down halfway. Stats? Scroll down a quarter of the way. Breeding info? Scroll down 3 quarters of the way, its not organized, its centralized. And that's not good for them. Its good for me though.</p>
<p>2) the website will contain more content then smogon, better content then bulbapedia, and more organization then serebii, this combination will make the website amazing and keep people coming back.</p>
<p>Smogon has good content, but not a lot of it. im not sure why but im guessing that their ACTIVE staff isn't that big, or even knows much about pokemon. Or the fact that they aren't including that much information to the public about allowing the community to know that they can write submitions to smogon on articles. which gives me a great idea to create a way users can view the best submitions, along with user submitions and create a sort of featured along with user submitions and create a nice community based article system, also puts less stress on me to create articles.</p>
<p>Serebii has ALOT of content, they have databases up the wazoo river but they have 1 major flaw, the fact that all of their data isn't organized in an easy to find way. Its a great website but if they took time to redesign it, then it would make finding stuff so much easier. You have to remember that not all their first designs are the best, you have to keep designing it to go along with the changing times and make it easier and easier to find data. The eaiser you make it to navigate, the easier it will be to get hits, and the more hits you get, the potentially more profit you get because they are seeing more ads for them to potentially click on. Make sense?

Bulbapedia has good content, too much information and its all on 1 page, that's just how a wiki works and im sure people like it but i just dont like it, well I don't like the amount of content per page, I might create a wiki for things like items or movesets.

Hm. Ill figure something out