So it’s now 2008. 2007 was a pretty cool year for me. I started working out the same day I got my guitar: The day before I turned 17, February 3rd. This year I’ve also been doing really well in school and stuff. Continue Reading
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Tags: 2008, Acoustic Guitar, College, Electric Guitar, Everlong, Foo Fighters, Guitar, Metalcore, New Year, Nuevo Flamenco, School
I’m in the process of converting The Instagib Project’s site to WordPress 2.3.1. I’m going to use WP-United to integrate it with phpBB3. Anyways, as far as I know there’s no way to export/import the news stories from PHP-Fusion. I was thinking about just screwing it, but it’s frickin history. I mean, all that time I’ve spent working on the instagib project, only some of it I have journaled on that site. For some reason the story for when 0.4 came out had 3,500 views, I have no idea why. I wonder if it was linked to by some other site but as far as I can tell it wasn’t. Anyways, I created a short script to get the news out of the database table. It’s not supposed to be presentable, but copy and paste-able, so after it was output by the script I went to view the page’s source and I copy and pasted that. I stored the news stories here if you want to take a trip down memory lane.
PHP-Fusion was great while it lasted. It was the only CMS that let me do whatever I wanted back in the day, I had used it ever since BlankSite back in like ‘04. I would still use it but I prefer WordPress and PHP-Fusion seems kind of ugly at today’s standards. Farewell PHP-Fusion, you were cool while you lasted.
I just created an account for The Instagib Project at CIA. CIA is a rapidly becoming popular service for tracking Open Source Projects. For example, you might have gone to an Open Source Project’s IRC channel and seen a user called CIA, that’s the CIA bot. It goes into the Project’s IRC channel and notifies the people in it of changes to the project in real time. So now it’s just him and I in #instagib@freenode. Yeah, it’s cool.
I’ve been talking with RabidPhoenix over at the TIP Forums and we’ve been talking about whether we should get the word out, and just talking over what we should do for the next version. I’m thinking about replacing the old PHP-Fusion with something like Drupal or maybe even WordPress, although I wouldn’t want to maintain both WordPress installations at the same time, it’d be duplicate efforts.
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Nope. I was thinking about making The Instagib Project into an Open Arena mod. I even set up a Subversion Repository for the code, got my environment ready, wrote a wiki page and everything. After giving it thought though, and attempting to build the source I got from the Open Arena Subversion as it was and it not building the QVMs, I decided against it. Obviously it wasn’t solely because the Open Arena code didn’t build because I’ve been through worse and I’ve come out solving any problem, but because I took it as a sign of things to come. I didn’t want to waste my time working on a mod that might just be rejected in the end. The guys at Open Arena are already happy because they have integrated ‘mods’ now including Instagib, although it is bare-bones Instagib. I basically don’t want to program for anyone else anymore until I’m doing it for money, for now if I’m going to program anything it’ll be for me and anyone else that finds a use in it. That’s how it has been with most of my programs from now on such as iLirix.
I don’t know what I’m going to program next, and for that reason, I won’t be doing anything for the time being. However, I was hoping to contribute to an Open Source Project though I’m not sure which one yet, preferably in C#. I’ll focus on school, video/audio editing and multimedia, and most of all hopefully guitar. I’ll also be focusing on my site and just writing in general.
