Felocity

Before I disappear for the weekend, I wanted to drop off what is version 1.0 of the Gaia Online Avatar Creator Widget for OS X (10.4+). While nothing more than a direct hook into the Yahoo mini browser, it provides the exact functionality I craved. You can customize and save your avatar from the Desktop. Without some server side rewriting of course, there's going to be a few nuances. I'd like to cover those before getting to the download link.

The most important thing is that this doesn't self refresh (yet). I'm going to try an iFrame approach and try and capture mouse activity to [reset" the refresher. This way online users, gold, etc all can stay current. Right now, it's not current, and there's nothing I can do for an hour's work of learning Dashboard.…

Gaia Online just recently distributed its 400-million posts across several databases, and upgraded the posting engine from phpbb's post system to a Circuit MVC(72squared: post on the Circuit Model View Controller) Architecture developed by 72Squared. With the system using this new lightweight design, the next step was to add the [feature" part of the posting system: post types.…