Questions are already starting to surface on the Woopra forums on how to use the new SOAP interface. There really isn’t a lot of documentation on how to do this on the Woopra site itself, but I am going to give you a quick lesson right now on how to use the Woopra API with your programing project.

One of the problems using the flash date function is that if you need to manually test a time period and ’start’ from a certain time there really is no ‘built in’ function to force the date function not to use your system clock. I was getting frustrated that I could set the starting clock.  That would still work for me to see how either the sky was being set or how many stars would appear at night time, but I needed to keep the internal clock synced as I had a lot of time checks for star removal towards the early morning period. So I cam up with a solution which I will show you how.

As I really don’t care. Woopra does. But my flash header now cares as well! As I mentioned in the last flash post, I was striving for real time time sync with your current locations sunrise and sunset.  I really being trying to do this since the first incarnation of the flash header. Now it is a reality!

As you might have noticed by now, the butterfly in my flash header moves all over the stage without a clear “defining” path, which was the case here when I gave you an update on the season code. That has been scraped for a much better code.

As the lyrics to Twinkle Twinkle Littler Star go:

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.

This is now true for my flash header. After three days of looking for the perfect star animation and designing the very complex code that will add stars in intervals (or all at once if it has gotten to that point) or to remove the stars in intervals (or all of the stars if it has gotten to that point).

Time to give you another update on the flash header project for this time.

As you know for a while it’s been working where the time of day happens and updates every second. That’s one goal. The other was the sun/moon phases. That so far is unattainable at this point. I did however add another goal in the mix: Seasons.

Another day.. another innovation over here at the rabbit hole and for other WordPress blogs a-like.

One of the things I started dreading when I first started this blog again back in July 2008 is that eventually that archives ‘By Month’ list and categories list was going to get so long that it was going to be lopsided and lots of items really make the site look “longer” than it really was when it comes to the vertical scroll bars.

What I needed to do now since both the Archives and the Categories list was getting to long, I wanted to shorten them up, but still allowing the user (that’s you..) to be able to still be able to browse all the available archives months and categories without having to view the full archives view.