And a line is drawn

So I’ve just decided to draw a line in how many projects I’ll take on at once.

After the website for the church is done I’m only going to have two more web design projects, ever.  The two final projects are the RazorIRC chain of sites and the quantumRadio chain of sites (this blog is actually part of both so it’ll be updated hopefully sooner rather then later)

Now with both chains (besides the blog… or maybe it’ll be included in this…) will share the same code base for the back end.  This should make it easy to maintain for me.

RazorIRC projects, these for the most part are still under way, except I put EdgeChat on the back burner again.  The first project to be released will likely be the RazorIRC iOS client.

So thats about it.

–Matt

2010
09/07
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A New Challenger approaches!

Hey all,

Been awhile!

So, I’ve got a new project starting up, it’s going to take away my focus from EdgeChat a bit but that’s no biggy!

So what is this new project you ask?  Well it’s a somewhat Simcity / Micropolis clone.  But I plan on eventually doing it in 3D and for Windows only.  It’ll be written in C# using either the XNA Framework (which means it could come to the Xbox 360, Zune and Windows Phone Series 7 or C# and SlimDX (A .Net wrapper for DirectX).

This project stemmed from myself and my father since we both love the Simcity franchise and well Simcity Societies was a huge flop.  So we’re going to do it right and make a true Simcity 4 successor!  Plus we may open source it or we may sell it on steam, time will tell.

2010
08/30
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Whoa, what happened there?!

Hey all, another personal post.

So I got hired full-time where I work… So did the Colombian Girl, and she got the same posting as me :|

Is fate trying to tell us something?  The past two weekends we’ve planned on going out, just the 2 of us, to celebrate getting hired.  Both plans fell threw, but the second time she asked me out so I dunno how to take it.  Is she interested or is my head playing games with my heart?

I still have to ask her again if the age thing still bothers her, she is about 10 years older then myself and has a 12 year old son…  That adds a new level of challenge that none of my friends can help me with.

We enjoy being around each other a lot.  I find it very easy to talk to her unlike the ex.

The only other problem I foresee is that we work in the same department together at work, that might make it challenging to hide it from our co-workers and to keep the personal stuff from affecting work.

The day we went for orientation for work we spent quite some time together, we even took what felt like a 3o minute bus ride (but actually ended up being close to 2 hours lol) together back down to where she lives.

I really think she’s coming around to the idea and I do honestly think she’s starting to at least develop some feeling for me.

Regardless for me it’s no real loss if I get turned down again, I’ll just keep trying, that’s what I do and I believe she already knows this as I haven’t been discouraged yet.

2010
06/28
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The edge is on!

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.

2010
06/03
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Dammit! (WARNING!: This post is all over the place)

Dammit!  (As a note this is only going to be a personal post, nothing to do with qR, RazorIRC or anything else.)

So I saw her the other day, we went to see and movie, she obviously doesn’t realize I was/am pissed off at her…

Anyways here’s what lead up to this.  I’ve been helping the potential girlfriend look for a job since shes fairly new to the country (she be Latin-American :D ) anyways I was thinking since the *erm* old girl is the assistant manager where she works I could try seeing if there’s anything there.  The only problem with the was I stopped talking to her in February…  All I could think about the past week was trying to “fix” the friendship.

Well turns out I have no fixing to do still now that’s not to say there wont be in the future when I run into that bastard she calls a boyfriend, I know I’ll have to fix the friendship then.  Anyways there’s nothing there, but the longer we all hung out the more the pain grew, I’m surprised that I didn’t snap at one point.  She has no clue the pain I’ve gone through to try and be with her.

I’ve given up on her but she still manages to cause me pain, it could be because I also considered her to be a closer friend then my best friend, and now I can’t trust her…

I’m probably a fool for wanting this but I want to be able to trust her again.

Anyways onto some more positive postings!

The one I’ve trying to get a job and going after, the Columbine girl, well the search for a job for her isn’t going well…

And recently my options for a girlfriend have opened slightly more, I met a girl the other night at a restaurant, shes a waitress there.. actually it was a stunt that my best friend pulled that kinda got that to happen, only problem is I didn’t get her number, I may go back this weekend but Iunno, she is real nice.

Now heres the problem I’m gonna have, the Columbine girl I have already opened up to, she’s the first person in a long time that I managed to do that to, I always have this sort of armor there the prevents me from opening up to anyone…

2010
05/17
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