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So, there have been some delays with the development of Crystal Engine for use with Renegade Music.  So I’m going to be temporarily using CodeIgnighter to write the backend, hopefully by the end of the year the site will have smoothly transitioned to Crystal.  This has meant that Renegade Music’s official launch has been pushed back to July 1st, 2011 (Canada Day).  The irony to all this is I seem to have a weird attachment to launching sites on that day.

Crystal ID has also been delayed, but with how we are setting up the current database everything will move over smoothly, the only thing is once Crystal ID goes live and the transition is completed you will have to update your user information.

quantumRadio will also be using the Crystal ID unified login once the transition is complete.

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Matt

It’ time to start posting what this project, in it’s entirety is all about.

Crystal to the end user means they only have one login to remember for our various sites and products, eg. RazorIRC.com, quantumRadio / Renegade Music.

Now this doesn’t mean that other sites in the future cannot become part of our network.  But there will be certain standards that sites must follow.

Crystal to the web developers of the network.

What this means for the developers in the network is that they have a platform that is designed with them in mind.  As a developer you’ll get to choose how little or how much of the Crystal features you want to use.

To login to a site on the Crystal network you just have to use the Username you use when you registered for a Crystal ID or if you link one of the various social networking sites to your account you can use this to login on any Crystal ID enabled sites.

You will be able to fully edit your Crystal ID Profile from any site within the network without leaving said site.  All sites in the Crystal network are required to have a page / tab on their user control panel for Crystal ID management, this will have a standardized spec that all sites will be required to fulfill or they will be removed from the network.

How will management of internal Crystal Network sites be handled?

Thats a tough one to explain.  We will have set internal user levels for the entire network which will mean those users with those specific levels of power will transfer to each site but within a certain limitation.

Anyways, it’s time to wrap up this post.  There’s a reason I broke it off jaged like this.

Each weekend as more information becomes available I will post an article.  I can only release little bits of information at a time.

PS.  Crystal ID will be able to be used as an OpenID, we will implement a layer within crystal that will allow for this to happen.  This is actually what the title of this post refers to.

It’s that time of year where I spill the beans on some of the plans for the Sites, the biz and whatever else I wish.  So lets get started!

Project Crystal

After my last post some of you may be wondering just what the eff is Project Crystal.  Well I can’t let you in just yet, I can tell you that it is going to help you manage Websites, and not just specific to sites I do, everyone can use this.  Okay… I’ve said to much and we can’t have my brain self-destruct just yet… so on to the other items!

EdgeChat

A lot of projects fall under this codename, well actually only one really does but others have been added onto the project under the Edge namespace.  So EdgeChat’s first…  I’ve kind of stalled working on EdgeChat for now, I want to do some more research into what the internet needs as a whole for a global, standard chat protocol.  Right now I’m actually considering scraping the work that I’ve already put into EdgeChat (which isn’t much, it’s only defining the requirements of an IRC compatibility layer for servers…) and putting a team together to toss ideas off of each other and create a sort of standard to chat applications, kind of like how XMPP/Jabber has done it.

RazorIRC

I’ve delayed RazorIRC quiet a lot since I decided to reboot the old EvolvedIRC (That’s actually what RazorIRC is and the codename is the same too ) and in that time I’ve reset the codebase a mere 5 times, I’ve just not been happy with it, I can never seem to get it to the point where I feel it’s release quality, or if I reach that point I feel it has nothing new to offer (which is why EdgeChat was born).

So whats going to happen with RazorIRC now?  Well, I’m currently only going to be writing it for 2 platforms, Mac OS X 10.6 and iPhone OS 3.1 (don’t get me started on the 3.2 debacle…).  I will at some point port it to Windows, probably wont be the same codebase then either, by the time I port it to Windows (which I’ll only be targeting Windows 7, I’ll discuss this at a later date) I plan to have all the base API’s written/ported to C / C++ so it make’s it easier to work on.

Next!

UpdateManager

Whoa!  Haven’t heard about this in awhile.  Well not much has changed other then the fact that it’s stalled…  The new plan is to have an UpdateManager program and an UpdateManger API, which will be part of RazorIRC’s base API’s, this is because RazorIRC will rely on the core foundations of UpdateManager for the Addon Manager that’s build into RazorIRC.

There is also plans to use some of UpdateManager’s functionality in Project Crystal (see told ya it wasn’t Crystal Engine ).

Okay that covers 3…

I think thats it for this post, I’ll make another post for quantumRadio, and a few other projects too this weekend.