It's only taken 5 years, but the old PHP site that I had running years ago for programming examples has finally been restored, and the code base for it is better than ever! This release is thanks to ASP.NET 4.0, and was created in Visual Studio 2010. The database of all information in the site is now kept in SQL Server 2008.

I made significant changes to the file base, which will allow for a TON of flexibility in the future. I plan to relinquish these AOL files to the back burner of the site, and add categories for things I'm interest in now, namely web based technology (XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, ASP.NET, etc). The plan to donate these files to a new technology site which will be shared by myself and a few other awesome fellas is on, and the domain is bought and the development is never ending (it seems).

Feel free to contact me (aim: darcfx, email: darc at darcfx dot com, irc: rock.tzirc.com) if you notice any problems on the site. I will be posting a few files here and there, and still plan to clean up the files display even more. I still accept submissions via the contact methods above.

Anyway, hope you all enjoy the site. It shouldn't suffer from downtime now that it is on a technology I fully support. Cheers. :)

- Darc

Syber just sent me a link from PAT or JK's blog about Monk-E-God apparently dying. At first, I honestly didn't recognize the name. I had messed around with so many programs and modules back in the day, remembering more than a few was a little difficult. He was from the vb private rooms in AOL days. Being a part of those days, there were so many people in and out, it was hard to keep track of them. But then I started going through the files that were posted here at Darc FX, and I found a couple written by Tom (Monk-E-God). So I wanted to post his files as a homage to him.... My thoughts and prayers will be with his family. We pray peace to them, and that the Spirit of God will bring them comfort, in Jesus' name.

Links:

• PAT or JK's blog post
• digital gangster forum thread

Files:

• monkefade3.bas
• monkegodspy

RIP, Tom.

- Darc

So Darc FX is down again. "What's going on, Darc? This site is always down, now." The truth is, I stopped coding in PHP, which this site was original built in a long time ago, and I never really got around to updating it. I am still a developer -- I primarily develop Internet applications for my company, so I certainly have not lost interest. And actually, I think I will be returning to this scene shortly. Darc FX was known as an AOL programmer's haven. It will not become that again.

Syber (many of you know from TheZone), Tweak (a co-worker of mine), and I (and perhaps some others) will be building a new site. The goal of the new site will be to foster an online community of technology experts who have good ideas, but do not have a platform on which to deliver them. Darc FX will be donating all the files it once held and any other resources available to it to the new project. Syber, Tweak and I will be posting blog articles, videos, podcasts, and trascripts to such that will outline new technologies we're interested in and also review them as they come out. We will also talk about theories we have about things that should work well together, and allow any of you to submit articles yourselves to this effort. We will have a log-in system which will be required for posting comments or submitting works, but we will also permit you to link your facebook account to it to make it easy on you. We will leverage Facebook, Twitter, and RSS feeds to distribute the content we create. Code snippets included in the blog posts, including any completed code projects that may be required for such content, will be freely available to the public.

We want to foster innovation, competition, and further the possible reach of technology, especially as it pertains to the Internet and the way people interact with each other. Look for a version of the website running in the next few months.

- Darc