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Oh noes more serious business!

It’s next week! :D   I never fail to provide :P

If you haven’t read the previous article then I suggest you do here.

This article will deal with whats going on with the websites, escape from reality (here), quantumRadio, RazorIRC.com, etc.

So here we go!

escape from reality

Yea, this is the first on the chopping block…

So what’s happening to my blog you may be wondering…  Well nothing really, I’m probably going to rename it by the end of the year and put it on it’s own domain.  I haven’t thought of a name yet, but since escapefromreality.tld is mostly taken I thought it might be a good idea :P

Okay that’s about it for escape from reality….  Next up….

quantumRadio

Well as you know I have stopped doing the sessions, there still up there but I no longer make any, and I very much doubt I ever will again.
So with that I’m changing quantumRadio’s focus and name.

Welcome Renegade Music, a site all about blogging Music and artist’s.  Right not I’m actually writing down all the plans for this.  I’ve already got a few people that I’m going to talk to about this, mostly what will happen is you’ll hear about independent music artists and groups, allot of punk and metal groups.  I’m the dance guy so I’m a bit out of place but this still will definitely be all about the music.

Now once Renegade Music goes live you might be wondering if we’ll transfer all of the content (sessions, old posts, etc.) over to the new Renegade Music site… well the answer is a big bold NO! Why you may be asking, it’s simple we don’t want to pollute the new image with the same old bullshit (yes I said it!)  that’s pretty much how qR died to begin with…

So what are you going to do then?  Keep quantumRadio active, yep you read right, I’m going to keep the quantumRadio domain (and not redirect it!) and just lock down the site so no new posts are made, what I’ll do is upload all the older versions, as well as the unreleased versions (so lets say you want to look at what V1 looked like, it’s be v1.quantumradio.net).  The current blog system that we are using on the qR site will not remain instead I’ll replace that with what qR V5 was originally going to look like (it was codenamed Pearl).

RazorIRC.com

It’s that time..

RazorIRC.com is a unique little bugger, by that I mean I have so many different systems to implement that I’ve never done. (eg. Payment system (it’s how paypal interacts with our site), Addon system (for RazorIRC, this will be the most complex thing that happens on the site I think), etc)

So, when’s it happening?!  Well the design will be happening real soon, once we get a logo designed, then I’ll start uploading the site piece by piece till it’s all there.

Okay I get all that but the payment system.  The payment system will be charged with billing the customer and generating there Software Key, this key will be a one time use key (:O oh I did son!), by that I mean it can only be used once, if you happen to reinstall at a later time you’ll have to browse to the website (or login on the client, I haven’t decided how this is going to work exactly yet…) and click something along the lines of “generate new key”.

I know how this will make some people feel but this is the best way that I see to prevent piracy of my app, I may go with just login on the razorirc client as a way to go about doing things since that would me buy once for supported platforms (besides iPhone, WinMo, etc)

Anyways I think I’m done with these two articles, if you have any questions of comments please feel free to drop one :)

Oh yea!

Happy very belated Happy New Year all!

2009′s been a hell of a year.  Now it’s on to 2010!

My personal goals for 2010:
To start up my own Business.
Either get with Her or move on with no chance of becoming friends again.
Skip down if you wanna read about RazorIRC and the like.
Finish my schooling.
Get hired full-time where I currently work as a temp, if not apply where my father used to work and do the 21 year thing like he did (Very unlikely lol).

So the plans for 2010 pertaining to RazorIRC, Update Manager and EdgeChat:
Nothings changed aside from the fact that RazorIRC and Update Manager may, just may support Mac OS X out of the gate, this is because I recently aquired a MacBook :P

I’m not sure if I’ll be releasing the Mac version this year or not, but if I do it may delay RazorIRC and Update Manager by some time.  This is going to be because I’m going to have to write RazorIRC in C, the various versions of RazorIRC though will use native windowing API’s, so GTK+ on Linux, WinForms on Windows and Cocoa on Mac OS X.  If it becomes to much of a burden to keep separate apis in use I may turn to wxWidgets.  So thats the plan so far…

The websites:
I’m keeping QuantumRadio, whoa….WHOA!!!!  Yup I said it, I’m keeping it.  The plans aren’t set in stone yet though.
RazorIRC, the website for RazorIRC will be up sometime before March, this will give everyone a preview of the features of the site and how they reflect on the actual program itself.
Update Manager, the site for this product will temporarily live at updates.razorirc.com, this will of course only be until we feel Update Manager should be released for public consumption. :)

And I believe that is all!  Happy New Year all!