That Purdydesigns would one day see it's logo on a race car. It's no secret I have a passion for auto racing, and thanks to Wyatt Gooden Racing, racing in the Jetta TDI Cup series, Purdydesigns was able to get a logo on his race car.

The logo got some good ole fashion rubbin during the race as Wyatt had to work his way up from 3rd starting position to the lead, Wyatt went on to win on the most challenging track of the season as a rookie! and his second straight victory, also putting the rookie into the points lead with only 4 races to go.

If you would like to learn more about the Jetta TDI Cup series you can check out VW's website.

The TDI Series heads over to Road America for a double race event, each race being worth half the normal points. The championship is close, we wish Wyatt all the best in the final races.

I decided to do a little clean up on the site, make things look cleaner, and hopefully nicer, Been meaning to do that for awhile, but been way to busy with other sites, hopefully it's a little easier to look at now. :)

I'm finally getting really close to releasing the alpha testing phase, for ileaguerace.com, so you can check it out if you like. :)

The home website is still under development as I've spent most of my time working on the functions that allow the league system to work. You can view an example league here Example League

You can also see the changelog over the last month or so on that example league page, As you can see it was quite a long project. The core is looking pretty nice so far, and I'm quite happy with the outcome so far, and look forward to seeing how the alpha testing phase goes. :)

I've been hard at work on this league statistics website, which is coming a long quite well. I am much futher along at this point than I thought I would be. Getting close to being ready for alpha testing. A few jobs have come in, in the last week or two, so development has slowed a little, but hopefully within the next week or two I will have the alpha ready.
 

I will go into a little more detail here. The league statistics website will be a portal system designed for iRacing simulation software. So all leagues will be on one website. With custom templating, and admin controls for each league administrator. Just to give you a bit of an idea of what exactly it is I am working on. More to come soon.

I thought this might be useful to some people. I see this a lot that people tend to leave 3rd party url's with ampersands in them. Which can cause your webpage to not validate as xhtml. In some cases it's simple enough to just replace the ampersands with & but in other cases where urls could be submitted over and over again a simple php str_replace() is in order. Works quiet well. for example you can paste your url into a string very easy if its coming from a database anyway. So something along the lines of

	$replace = "&";
	$with = "&";
	str_replace($replace, $with, $your_string);

It's really as simple as that and your page will validate.

 

I've been spending the last 2 weeks developing a portal league statistics website, so far the project is going quite well, Its actually nice to work with stats, you can really learn a lot of neat things, I'd recommend to anyone wanting to learn more about php to work with statistics. :)

Considering the size of this project I'm not exactly sure when it will be ready for public viewing, but I'll be sure to post more information about it when its more polished. :)

Thats all for now. :)

PurdyDesigns has launched it's website, on Christmas at that. Please take a look around, We will be updating the site with more content over the next month, We hope to not only provide a website development service but as well as point people to cool web development projects and tricks pertaining to web-site development.

I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.