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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.

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.

I’m not working this week, fuck I’m bored…

Well for the rest of this week I might just work on RazorIRC, or possibly the EdgeChat protocol.

Updated my iPhone to OS 3, damn it’s solid now.  Plans are still set for a RazorIRC for iPhone, possibly Android too…

I bought World of Warcraft this past weekend, I promised myself I wouldn’t… But I was bored as all hell…

I’m potentially buying a car by this weekend, a 91 Honda Civic Si Hatchback, 5 speed manual*, 1.6L i4 D16A6
* A mans car.

It needs a little work but I’m not afraid of working on cars.

Nothing on the her front…

It’s officially summer up here in Canada next week and I still haven’t finished, or for that matter started on the new sessions yet…  i think I might go old to new dance   Maybe even Dr Alban, Haddaway – I Love the 90’s

– Matt