my reality, you're escape

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.

So it’s that time of year again, the time where I become a prick… Well more of then usual…

I hate February’s so much it isn’t funny, I can’t really explain why as I don’t know why.

Anyways she promised that we’d go out next month so it brightened this month up a bit. J

Work… Well I’m working in supplies for this month… so I’m on my own for the month, I kind of like it, gives me time to think and think a lot I do…  I started planning out stuff to do with her so I’m happy… But because I have this time to think a lot that one fucked up day of this month will bug me even more as it gets nearer…

Anyways enough of that…

I’m starting the design process of RazorIRC.com I’m also working on the backend now since I have a local web server set up on my MacBook now…  By either the end of this month or next there will be a limited beta of the websites user systems and storage systems.

Once we start rolling out the RazorIRC betas we’ll open the site up to the general public and also start implementing the billing systems, we’re probably going to be using PayPal for now.

There’s also going to be some major changes to the blog soon, I’m thinking of ditching WordPress and writing my own the ties into the backend network for quantumRadio (oh there I go mentioning that again) but that project is still under wraps

This backend is part of Project Crystal and you’ll be hearing about it soon, I don’t plan on releasing much details on this project though as it’s actually completely un-related to RazorIRC.com, quantumRadio and Escape From Reality and I want to keep it under wraps for as long as possible.  All I’m going to say is though it may have something to do with the business I start up soon

However I will shoot this information out about Project Crystal.  It has nothing to do with Crystal Engine (which actually doesn’t exist anymore.).  So if you were planning on asking that question don’t;