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Renegade Music

No, I haven’t forgotten about my latest project, there has been more delays so I’m not setting an official launch date this time.

quantumRadio

I’m working on a redesign here, but Renegade Music comes first

RazorIRC

So, I’ve started working on RazorIRC again, but on the Windows side first.  I’ve come up with a few UI concepts and I’m simplifying the direction a little bit.

We are not gonna have any add on system or plugin architecture right off the bat.  We’re just going to have a barebones IRC client, we will however in the future be adding these features.

No it’s not done yet. Not in either sense of being “done” either.

I’m working on two versions right now, one for Windows written in C# / .Net 4 and one for Mac OS X 10.6.4 written in Objective-C / Cocoa.

With writing it in C# I can use it on all platforms that support Mono, and it gives me the flexibility to use the core of RazorIRC to write a silverlight version for the web and Windows Phone 7 version, etc…

With writing it in ObjC it’s basically limited to two platforms iOS and Mac OS X.

But my primary goal when I first came up with the RazorIRC idea was to write a client for Windows, and it would be the spiritual successor to one of my older projects EvolvedIRC, which was an IRC client writen in VB6 / Winsock.

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.