So, here we are. Using WordPress and everything and yeah I’m fully behind it now. Just keep in mind that it’s (probably) not promoting simplicity in code. Besides that, everything is neat. Michael installed a sourcecode highlighter which you can view in this post. I like it.
Now about Google AdSense, it’s something new we both want and to be very honest I did click on some AdSense links before (when browsing for my coilgun’s capacitor) so hey, they could be useful and make us a bit of profit while we’re add it. All the “profit” will be used for keeping this site up anyway, not that it’s that expensive, but it isn’t a free neither.
Besides that, Michael’s got his week ‘o tests this week, so there won’t be a lot of work made on our secret project, though that’s mostly my job now anyways since I must admit I’ve been slacking of a bit. That doesn’t mean I didn’t do anything, just not anything useful, hahaha.
We’ll keep you posted!
Posted by Nick on January 26th, 2009 @ 10:26 pm | Tags: AdSense, Coilgun, SuperSecretProject, WordPress
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Nick heerreeeee….
Sooo, you fire up the program and point it to all your music files.
It catalogs it and does all the usual stuff, but it has one neat-oh feature:
“Search for duplicates”.
Hey, I’m Nick. I’m from the Netherlands where it’s legal to download artistic stuff like music and movies. So yeah, I got a ton of MP3s, Winamp says 7958, so let’s make it 8000. Now, among those are a lot of duplicates. You know, we have a radio station here and that plays a “Top 2000 all time”, if you download that each year –> lots of dupes.
So I desperately need that program! Hahaha…
But alas, I don’t have the time. Girlfriend, school, school, school and our secret project are taking up quite a lot of time. School being the most dominant, but my gf the most important of course. But hey, if you happen to know a good piece of open free software that can do what I described above, leave a comment.
Secret project is coming along nicely by the way. Don’t hold your breath for the first alpha, but it’ll be sooner than we both thought, I think. It’s gonna be awesome.
See
you
around,
–Nick
Posted by Nick on January 23rd, 2009 @ 11:27 pm | Posted in General Info | 2 Comments »
I want to take the opportunity to wish everyone a happy new year. I hope that everyone had a good night.
2009 will be .simplicity’s first full year. It’s shaping up to become an important year for us. Not only will we continue to expand the website, but we’ll also start publishing our projects. Speaking of that, Nick and I are currently working on a new project. I can’t say what we’re working on as we’ve decided to keep it secret for a while. I can only tell that the project is progressing nicely so far and that SourceForge.net has approved the project. More than that I can’t tell you.
Well, that’s enough for now. Again, happy new year everyone!
– Michael
Posted by Michael on January 1st, 2009 @ 2:50 pm | Tags: SuperSecretProject
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We’ve actually updated the site people. Visit the projects page for projects we’re working on. The page currently boasts:
- Icon
- Short description
- License
There’s stuff to be done though, including but not limited to:
- State it’s in (alpha, beta, RC, that stuff)
- Percentage complete till next version
- Timeline with events and milestones
- Language of course
- Lengthier description
Nothing too hard still needs to be done. The only thing that I want really neatly worked out is the timeline. Michael and I already talked about it for a bit, and we both really liked google’s timeline. I think we’ve settled for a SVG generated timeline that has clickable events using HTML area tags. I think that’s gonna be a neat project on its own. Of course, .simplicity itself is a work in process project as well.
Suggestions for the timeline? Suggestions for the list up here? Leave a comment!
Posted by Michael on December 6th, 2008 @ 12:43 am | Posted in General Info, Programming | No Comments »
Oh this sucks. We got spammers apparently. They now only made 4 posts so far I’ve noticed, but we need to have some sort of CAPTCHA protection. Or less convenient names for our input texts… the text area name = website is kinda easy for bots to spot I guess, hehe.
Owell. It will be fixed soon! New challenge.
One day later…
So, we have a CAPTCHA now! Securimage CAPTCHA. Quite easy to set up, but it’s a mystery to me as of why I had to turn off TTF fonts. They supply a test.php file to test your server’s capabilities and according to that it should’ve just worked right out of the box… Owell, it’s nothing that hard. The script is very easy to adjust for yourself and I took the liberty of snooping around a bit, it’s nice to see a larger project with a sourcecode that’s so easy to understand. Let’s hope it’ll keep the bots busy.
It reminds me to never go into AI creation though. Smart spambots would be the end of the internet, hahaha.
Posted by Nick on November 24th, 2008 @ 10:44 pm | Posted in General Info, Open Source | No Comments »
After I posted “Michael’s Secret Project” Nick found a bug in the SimpleLog engine. The MySQL query for selecting posts with a specified tag didn’t work. Our first attempt at solving the problem didn’t work, but our second attempt did. It was just a matter of looking at the MySQL documentation. Now the query works and it’s also safe.
I also would like to mention that we’ve been using Google Analytics since some days. Google Analytics is a free statistics service offered by Google. Even though the service is aimed at marketers, I really like it. Google Analytics has a clean design and is incredibly easy to use. But that’s not the reason why I like Google Analytics. I like Google Analytics for the statistics it provides; it gives you an interesting insight in your website. If you’re a webmaster then I recommend you to check it out.
And I’m off.
- Michael
Posted by Michael on November 13th, 2008 @ 9:27 pm | Posted in General Info | No Comments »
Soooooooooooooo.. Day.. errrrr… six-ish?
I forgot, what I do know is that I found a very nice site to test my programming and math skills: Project Euler
I don’t know if Michael wants to join me but I just thought I’d share this with all of our readers. Yeah that’s you.
.simplicity itself is kind of “dead” as in, not being worked on as actively as a couple of days before. We are both quite busy with our final school project. I’m building a coilgun and Michael, well, he may reveal that himself, I think they are both pretty neat subjects.
-Nick
PS: Need to update the tags I notice, running out of them.
Posted by Nick on November 12th, 2008 @ 12:19 am | Posted in General Info, Programming | No Comments »
Surprise? Until now I’ve had the pleasure of working behind the scenes on .simplicity, but from now on you’ll probably hear more often from me.
Anyways, development on .simplicity has been going smoothly. We’ve been working on .simplicity for some weeks, but things really kicked of at the moment we went online. We constantly see things which can be improved. As a matter of fact I’m just done with polishing the code a bit more. The code is a bit more structured and documented now. As things look now SimpleLog v1.0 (.simplicity’s engine) will be released soon. Just a bit more polishing.
But that’s all for now… A small first post.
-Michael
Posted by Michael on November 8th, 2008 @ 10:14 pm | Posted in General Info | No Comments »
Today we made small bugfixes. Michael found the stripslashes() function for, of course, stripping the slashes from a PHPstring (as preparation for putting them in plaintext format).
We’re now discussing metatags, used by indexing services like Google apparently, I had no clue coming from under my C(++) stone.
PHP is treating us nicely so far I think, it’s easy to connect to databases, parse strings with RegEx, loop and make simple choices.
Version 2 of .simplicity will have a simpler admin interface (for submitting, deleting and editing posts and comments). This shouldn’t be a difficult task, placing large pieces of code into functions like Michael did with the index should just do the trick.
Writing this, the idea came into my mind, also for v2 of course, to have some sort of “review this” option. It would allow the poster (like me now) to ask for a review from any administrator. I stress allow, it shouldn’t be mandatory for now (that would only be convenient where all the content has to be monitored and quite frankly I trust Michael not to post goatse or 4chan links in here). That would logically need some sort of user system and all that blah blah so we’ll have to give it a bit more thought.
PS: Minor edit. Maurice gave me the tip to switch off magic_quotes. A useless function if you ask me (it can’t protect you from MySQL injection for real). Switching it off killed the need for the earlier mentioned stripslashes().
-Nick
Posted by Nick on November 7th, 2008 @ 4:09 pm | Posted in General Info | No Comments »
We are online! Well that feels good. After a couple weeks of work, mostly done by Michael I have to admit, this site looks really tight and works just fine.
The things only thing left to do is cleaning up code, which will be my job. I’m going to put as much code as is reasonable in functions. That ought to make the code a lot more readable and easier to maintain.
-Nick
PS: Well, not my job anymore. Michael took care of all that. The code is really neat and small now. Quite simple. I think it’s a great start.
Posted by Nick on November 6th, 2008 @ 10:06 pm | Posted in General Info | No Comments »
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