Intro
Preface
So you're probably wondering what this site is all about. I'm going to talk you through all that in a couple seconds. First I want to take a moment to say that I'm going to make sure to use some of the good HTML tags that a lot of people leave to gather dust, such as abbr, acronym, dfn, cite, blockquote, all that jazz. So keep an eye out for them. Also, most pages on my site will probably have comments in them about some of the HTML or stuff I've said, so they're probably worth actually looking through instead of just glancing at if you want to learn from the source, and I won't be at all serious in them either, so you might occasionally get a chuckle out of them. If you don't get some of the jokes I make in them, they weren't meant for you. Yeah yeah, I'm a bad man using inside jokes. I should be ashamed. And as one last quick note, this site as a whole will probably display a bit better in firefox than IE, because I use some CSS stuff that doesn't work in IE and some other things I can't think of off the top of my head. Firefox is better anyway. But it should still display fine in other browsers.
About the Site
SPP's purpose is to give me a place to host and talk about games or other non-game related programs that I make, be they made in RPG Maker, Game Maker, or, as will probably become most common soon enough some time in the far off future, text based languages like C.
It's also to give me a place to put my HTML and CSS skills which I recently worked to acquire, even though they don't take a lot of skill.
And some time fairly soon, my javascript skills too.
About Me
Preface
Yeah I pretty much have to include an about me section. I mean, seriously, all the cool kids do it.
The Past
What led me to become interested in programming? Well, my dad is a programmer by profession, which probably helped a bit. But the major cause was the RGP/RP forum. How I happened upon it is a long story, which you'd probably just be bored by anyway. But the forum is themed around RPG Maker games, particularly REDDAP and Rodpop's, though REDDAP has quit making them and Rodpop is busy most of the time. Anyway, a while after I became a member there I decided to give RPG Maker a try, and I liked it quite a bit, and it made me realize how much I loved programming in general. That's the short version, anyway.
The Present
In all honesty, I spend most of my free time programing and working on web design, as well as browsing the internet, attending several forums and stuff like that. My social life is pretty active too, nowadays.
I support hacking, and like to think of myself as a hacker. Since I originally made this page I found that my original definition of hacker was extremely simplified and sort of stupid. I'm not a bad person. And don't try to get me to help you with illegal stuff. I don't do that kind of stuff.
See, I'm a white hat hacker. That means I hack to find security weaknesses, but not so I can abuse them, so I can fix them.
Hacker, in a general sense, also means someone that programs. And does stuff with a computer. Especially open source stuff.
Everything I program will be open source. I'll put as many comments as I can in to make it intelligible, even to people who don't know any programming stuff.
That's all about me for now, though I'll probably actually update this as I come up with more stuff to put in it.
Contact Me
So you want to contact me? Cool. You can contact me in almost every way ever, all thrown in to one convenient list:
- Soolar@uirpg.com - I got an email address using this site as the host. Yay!
- Forums
- RGP/RP Forum
- Ultima Island, my new website.
- Chat Programs
- Xfire: soolar121
- mIRC: Nickname is Soolar, Network is irc.whahay.net. Just message me some time when I'm on (gogo notify list). If you don't want to download something (even though mIRC is tiny), there's a java applet on this site. There's also one at Ultima Island.
- MSN: Soolar@uirpg.com
- This Website
- There's a forum on this site, and a java applet IRC client.
If you add me on a chat program and I block you because I don't know who you are by your contact name or email adress, I'll probably block you, and if I don't the next time we're both on you should message me or I'll probably block you. If I block you for one of these reasons, what you should do is send me an email and tell me who you are, and then I'll unblock you.
If this website does end up gathering up a community and we have to decide on a chat program to use, I heartily endorse mIRC because the main base of this community will probably be programming, and mIRC has scripting capabilities. I linked to xfire and mIRC's websites because they're much less well known.