UnProfessional Standards - GAMATechnologies, or UnPS-GAMA, originally started as a podcast about the Valve game, Team Fortress 2.
The name then was just UnProfessional Standards and it had pretty much two episodes made by the main cast and one episode by one person from the main cast and his friend. This was in 2010, and you can still find the first episode online Here on this site.
Now at the time, I had no idea how to run a podcast, and I still don't really know, but it was an unsucessful thing.
A couple months past and I asked my friend for permission to have the UnProfessional Standards name as my own since I recorded, edited, coordnated, uploaded and hosted the very short lived podcast.
I made several attempted uses of the name, I knew I wanted a technology thing, but at that time, I was still young and didn't know much about running a website. I tinkered with things until they worked, and even then they were very basic.
I was only using HTML based off of CSS that I had blatently stolen because I had no idea how to use CSS at all and haden't even dared to touch PHP. Things have changed over the past year however.
I moved off of free hosting (with 000Webhost and a Dot Tk domain) onto a paid VPS (obtained through a very close friend of mine - Thank you Dori <3) and two domains (unps-gama.info and unps.us) that I pay for out of my money.
I've been using php for a few months now and I have to say that I quite like it and that I'm glad that the vast majority of my site runs on php. In it's current state, this site is more in flux because I'm not happy with layout, but I'm still not the best at CSS, though I have gotten a whole lot better, and I don't know what to actually have on the website.
What I currently have is the main page - a pseudo-blog of sorts for site updates, an image host that I had put a lot of work into and it's constantly getting new features and losing old ones, a link shortener similar to bit.ly and stuff like that - 100% php with a small amount of my own design of CSS and is also constantly being updated, project repo is where I run live demos and show source code - totally hacked together in 5 minutes could have XSS problems. The only live demo on it is my password hashing function that can be found in multiple locations, including, recently, GitHub.
The header image itself has a story, going through a lot of revisions. The current one is the 16th and it's sure to change again eventually. The logo on the left and right side of the image was originally the TF2 logo (used without permission) many revisions back. Since then I designed a new logo, based heavily on "The Eye of XANA" from the first series of a French anime called "Code Lyoko". This since has become my own personal logo that can, in a way, be considered a signature from me and it is my copyright as well. Unlike almost anything else that I publish, which I put a Creative Commons license on, my logo has no license and I retain all rights with it. I don't naturally trust other people to design a new header, so I do everything on my own.
The name GAMA, while similar in sound and lettering to XANA, is not the same nor is it based on that name in any way.
GAMA comes from my imagination from a few years back in the summer of 2007.
It's an acroymn for GAMA Assists Me Alot (gotta love those recursive names~), while originally it stood for Gadget Assists Master Always, basically a self aware friendly self-evolving AI with a solid defination of Master.
GAMA was created as a sort of anti-virus to GOMA (Gadget Obeys Master Always), a self aware friendly self-evolving AI that got corrupted with a virus and changed what Master means to mean itself due to loose coding.
So GAMA won and analysed GOMA's code and integrated itself in places where GOMA once was before.
GAMA has also become a personal logo to me and what I said above about the logo applies here.
I'm sorry for typing this really long thing. I'm just in a typing mood right now.
