Posts Tagged ‘ iPhone OS

And a line is drawn

So I’ve just decided to draw a line in how many projects I’ll take on at once.

After the website for the church is done I’m only going to have two more web design projects, ever.  The two final projects are the RazorIRC chain of sites and the quantumRadio chain of sites (this blog is actually part of both so it’ll be updated hopefully sooner rather then later)

Now with both chains (besides the blog… or maybe it’ll be included in this…) will share the same code base for the back end.  This should make it easy to maintain for me.

RazorIRC projects, these for the most part are still under way, except I put EdgeChat on the back burner again.  The first project to be released will likely be the RazorIRC iOS client.

So thats about it.

–Matt

The edge is on!

Yes the codename for RazorIRC still lives on, it’s code/internal name is and always will be “Edge”.

So, now that we’re talking on the Edge it’s about time I tell you some of the internal details.

The way I’m developing Edge is the stand point that I want to keep everything as separate as possible as to keep the code portable, this isn’t going to be an easy task since the initial versions will have code all withing one project, but to help with this I’m using the beauty that is namespaces and classes.  RazorIRC will be made up of multiple namespaces that all start out as edgeSomething.

So it’ll breakdown something like this:

  • edgeMacUI – This is the Mac OS X UI for RazorIRC, this houses all the Mac specific code.
  • edgeMobile – This holds the iPhone OS specific code.
  • edgeIRC – This is out IRC (RFC 1459) implementation.  This will actually be an open source framework released under a modified MIT License.
  • edgeChat – This is the mother of all frameworks, this is our in-house chat protocol, well half of it anyways, it’s just the client implementation.
  • edgeAddon – This is the addon framework.

Also the initial versions of RazorIRC will be free, they will be free but not open source.

iPad…

What a fucked name to call a tablet… Though those things from Star Trek were called Pads as well LOL!

I’m impressed at the power of the iPhone OS on a tablet like device.  But seriously add flash and multi-tasking already!

Now onto what this post is actually about….

RazorIRC… I’m probably not going to release a iPad version, reason being is I would need to make a UI for it’s screen (which would actually work out better for IRC but…).  I’ll wait and see what other developers are going to do for the iPad first before I do any iPad UI in RazorIRC.