Joe and I have been working on a new PHP library designed to encapsulate the web-site creation experience. I must say I’m having fun working with Joe again on a big project. We’ve resolved some OOP issues with the new codebase, and we’re about to start finishing up the core modules. I think the integration of the PostgreSQL and MySQL modules is going to be a bit hit amongst our fans :)

In other news, I ordered another set of joysticks and buttons from Happ Controls. They were rather cheap … all things considered. I’m going to sit down one of these days with a couple of my buddies and start taking measurements for a new control panel for my MK3 machine. The buttons I ordered are color-coded to match the controls of Street Fighter 2. I’ve always been a big fan of the SF series of games! I’m hoping to buy a Capcom CPS-2 A Board. These boards are like consoles. You buy one A board (preferably the hacked ones that play American andJapanese games), and then you can buy all sorts of B boards (which are the individual games). Most Capcom arcade games come in the CPS-2 B format, so by buying the A board, I can just pop-in new games as I get them! If you’re interested in some further reading on this, I urge you to check out CPS-2 Shock. This site has an abundance of cool info on the Capcom series of arcade games, as well as a home-grown manual to build a MAME controller set.

Tip of the century:
To sync multiple files on multiple computers together securely, I highly recommend Rsync. This program is SO cool! It can tunnel over SSH and basically sync files from source to destination. Here is the magic command line to take a look at:
rsync -avze “ssh -1″ user@host:/path/to/file/or/dir /local/target/file/or/dir