| 2010-04-08 Blog engine rewrite |
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It's been long months the last time I published something here. I have a couple of interesting articles coming: the first about how I restored my father's old Thinkpad, and the second about my MacBook getting a 7200 rpm hard drive. They're quite finished, but I've been busy with rewriting my blog's engine - the usual situation that starts with "some fixes, a couple of new features, and some tweaks to the look" and ends up with a nearly complete rewrite - and with my job. The biggest difference with the current engine is that the whole content will be placed in the database, and the pages will be built on the fly. Currently, except for the news, everything is mostly a bunch of HTML pages that calls some PHP functions for common functionality, like the sidebar. I'm quite happy of how it is growing up - being object oriented et al - but as I always tend to do, I reinvented the wheel. Multiple times, actually, as I could have used several libraries that are already available and save some time to write content. But I'm a programmer, not a scribbler. My software is my content. And I hate PHP. Seriously, guys, how can someone pretend it is any better than Java? If only there were more Java hosting services around... |
AtomoCAD on Haiku? Well, it compiles and run :)
Good!
Is it already finished, or does it need more work?
Maybe you want to put it up for download somewhere (for example on Haikuware).
I never tried it but it looked cool and it's valuable to have something like that for Haiku.
I'm sure many people will be interested to try it and maybe work on it if needed (and if you think that's OK).
Ciao,
Meanwhile
It still require a lot of work. You can't go much far with a CAD if the only editing command you have is "delete" :-)
I'm not the kind to publish half-baked software. I will publish it when someone will be able to do some actual work with it, and this is not going to happen soon. I'm still not satisfied with the foundations of AtomoCAD, and you know, every time you edit something down there, everything above needs tweaking. This is what happens without a real design process :-)
Thank you for explaining the situation, Biffuz.
I'm not a coder, but what you said about AtomoCAD's design process is clear enough to imagine.
If the app. was meant to be commercial software (can't remember if it was), I hope it will make you rich(er) :)
If it's freeware, maybe you could put it on OSdrawer and have more people work on it, to get it ready before Haiku R1 \o/
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Hi Biffuz,
Could you tell us what you think is the future for AtomoCAD on Haiku?
I hope the community and future users will see more of that nice & cool application !
Thanks,
Meanwhile