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I have been busy working; too busy to blog for the most part. I have sunk a significant amount of time in developing a new type of CMS ihang10.com it has many new features that most standard cms do not possess. In doing so I have been following the MVC pattern utilized by CakePHP, I have also been integrating SWX into the project so I can create a flash / flash lite interface for the application later. I have been taking notes on the creation of the project to server later as a proof of concept for what can be quickly accomplished utilizing various open source packages together and going into detail of the various design patterns that have been utilized for the creation of this project. So drop me an e-mail and I might let you peak at this new application. I personally am excited about the possibilities that this application presents.
You may have heard me talking about creating a customized Ubuntu distribution. I have done just that by utilizing a new utility remastersys. I will make it available for download in the near future. I have been playing around ubuntu on one of my spare boxes for awhile attempting to create the perfect build. Which of course takes hours careful planning and of course the opportunity for failure a thousand times over. The image I am working on creating and I do have one image currently built that works so so. I have been testing it on multiple boxes. One thing I can say is it will be a dvd. It will have the following packages built in:
Developer: Mono Develop tools, Adobe Flash plugin, Eclipse, Anjunta IDE, etc., BlueFish
Communication & Office: Thunder Bird, aMSN, Evolution, OpenOffice, etc..
Designer: GIMP, Blender, Xara Xtreme, Ktoons, CinePaint
Server: Xampp, CakePHP, Java, Neko VM, Drupal, Wordpress, eyeOS, Joomla, etc. ? Starts automatically from load.
Emulation: Znes, DsEmu, Gens, QEMU, Virtual Box, etc.
Wine-Doors: Direct X9, IE6+7, Shockwave, SEPY Action Script Editor, Windows Media Player, QuickTime
I have several reasons for creating this distribution. I will use it; I need something that has the tools I use built in I don?t like installing a fresh ubuntu. It will be easy to use for beginners; I have been writing some tutorials with various examples of code and I want people to easily be able to replicate what I have done on their local machine. It will also be a good learning tool for newbie?s in general. I believe Linux has a great deal to offer consumers and developers I would like to use this to demonstrate some of the things I have learned and allow people to view how I have implemented what I have learned. It will also be useful if you are simply lazy don?t want to go thru the work of installing and configuring these packages. This distribution will allow people to use the liveDVD or thumb drive to test drive linux for fun in your freetime:)!
In short I would like to eventually offer my notes and tutorials for creating your own CMS with CakePHP and SWX on a book from LuLu.com and offer it for sale or download an ebook pdf. I would also like my custom distribution to compliment this offer. So that is more than enough work to keep me busy in short for the next year and a half without blogging at all.
A great deal of people give Linux a hard time but one of my reasons for using it is because of its potential. Linux might not get lots of people excited but I do believe people in the near future will be using linux for smaller devices like Cell Phones but certainly not limited to just cell phones. Google has release Android SDK and it seems to have a great deal of support at the moment. I have been tinkering around a great deal with my Linux machine and I have been able to create a few builds for some of my friend?s kids they have a machine that runs on minimal hardware but is chuck full of games and various programs they can experiment with. I have also had fun playing around with Myth. In the near future because of hardware scaling I also think it is important to experiment with Linux and old hardware to attempt to build a useful system out of someone?s former trash. You would be surprised with what you can create and I do see embedded Linux being used for all kinds of things certainly not limited to cell phones in the near future.
On the work front things are going very well for me at InfoUSA. I enjoy working on SalesGenie.com! InfoUSA is also grooming me for software engineering:). I have been spending a great deal of time learning the ins and outs of C# and applying what I have learned about object oriented programming! I enjoy C# and love its possibilities. I also like playing around with Mono as well. I am also now a member of MSDN so I have access to a great deal of downloads like Silverlight ? Expression Blend. I do not see it taking over flash in the near future. I do believe in this field it is a necessity to utilize new technologies quickly and learn strengths of various software packages. One of the things I strive to do is make applications that will work on any platform regardless of the OS. I am please M$ is making IE8 Acid Test 2 compliant. This will make css much easier although I do know all the workarounds for IE6 and IE7 anyone having difficulty with css is more than welcomed to drop me an email. I can hack just about anything to work on any platform.
It is finally Christmas time and all my shopping is done. Lisa and I have been busy preparing for the holiday season and getting gifts for all of our family and friends has been a time consuming effort! I am looking forward to spending extra time with family and friends (oh and Cosmo and Franz our pet friends at home). So we wish you all a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year:)
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