http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recapture/download/

After this semester ends (in three weeks) I will be able to devote more time to making a newer version. In the meantime, test out the development version and let me know if you discover any bugs. If there are any developers out there that would like to help out with making Recapture look prettier and / or function better, please let me know.

Also, parts of the current development version are courtesy of Josh Moles. Thanks Josh!

On several occasions I have become inspired to blog about something, only to lose all inspiration once I sit down to do so. I have approximately six weeks of school left, inside of which I need to complete two programming projects and one eight-page term paper. This is in addition to working forty hours a week, keeping up with the regular scholastic demands of a twelve credit work-load, and fixing broken computers on the side for people that I care about (in order to spare them a financial raping at the hands of the geek squad).

I’m also doing Script Frenzy next month. Yes, I’m going to write a zombie movie. Expect frequent updates during this time, regarding my progress and unraveling mental state.

Welcome Jared to subparcitizens.net! He hasn’t had much to say yet, but I’m sure he’ll soon be enlightening all of us on the ways of the world. He’s also doing Script Frenzy next month, and yes, he’s also writing a zombie movie.

Also, Recapture has been downloaded 264 times as of now, and has blocked 112 (presumably) spammers from registering at my blog. Or maybe only one spammer, who has tried to register 112 times unsuccessfully. Now if I only had the time to get a new version around for WordPress 2.5 >_<

I need to blog more. By ‘more’ I mean at least once every couple of days. School is keeping me busier than I would like to be, and what little free time I have is spent reading and playing the occasional video game. The thing that drives me crazy about my classes, is the fact that I’m going to learn very little in them. At least for my programming classes, I’ve already taught myself more than what I’m expected to learn. For instance, my php instructor asked me why I didn’t test out.

The other thing that bugs me, is the number of people at my school that equate computers with money–this is far from the truth. Unless you become a super-genius in your area of study, or invent something so radical and useful, that everyone wants to use it. The people that sign up for computer classes at my college are mostly unemployed, middle-aged folk, that are looking to get in on what they perceive to be the greatest scam ever. In one of my classes, a student said these words, “if statements confuse me.” Now, you may not know what an “if” statement is, and I won’t hold it against you if you do not, because there is a good chance that you’re not a programmer, but if you are in a computer programming degree, and expect to use this degree to make your way in this world as a computer programmer, you should have mastered “if” statements by the end of the first week of your intro-level programming class. I consider myself a mediocre programmer; I would not feel comfortable being hired into a programming position higher than intern or junior, and the sad fact is that I know I am a better programmer than the majority of the people that will graduate with a degree in computer programming from my college.

At the time of this writing, Recapture has been downloaded 130 times. I have yet to receive any hate mail, and registration spam has virtual stopped on my blog (though an occasional one slips through the cracks). I would like to hear how it’s working for other people, if any of them would be kind enough to send me a note.