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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.

No really I do

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Now that that’s out of the way, on to the busy-ness of this postage

RazorIRC,
Yes I’m still working on it, no it’s not coming this year.  The website is though.

quantumRadio,
It’s changing… for the better….

The rest,
dunno whacha talking bout son’

Okay, okay that wasn’t the real information for each… gees…

quantumRadio is being put on the backburner while I figure out the focus of the site as a whole… The current model isn’t working…  I’m also going to be networking all my sites in a certain way, this is way qR is being put on hold, because qR is the one this going to majorly benefit for this change, the RazorIRC website is going to be an exception, it’s not going to use this (for obvious reasons) but will use something similar for the backend.

RazorIRC’s going to be lunched next year, possibly by September (the product not the website), I’ve finally started figuring out how the update system is going to work (best thing is it’s an open system!).  By the end of December I plan on having what will be the full blown RazorIRC website up and running, complete with add-on’s database (although it will be disabled ).

Life!
Life’s good for the most part, had a mild panic attack at work today, all day long… dunno what triggered it… might be something to do with her (Oh no I didn’t!).. Oh yea, I’ve decided to wait when it comes to her I’ll wait till she’s finished school and if she does decide to move down unda, then I guess I’m moving too.

Anyways guess thats enough of an update