Today i nearly finished my image class that i am going to use on some of my projects and it would be included in my global source folder. I think by 2morrow I will be ready to start on the gallery that i am planning to make. Hopefully it would be good enough. I am only missing around 3 more things to be done on my todo list to complete the image class and most of it is security checks and error calls.

once that has been done i have to make 2-4 more classes and I am finished with the gallery so that i can fully test it out on a community.

Tomorrow I am going to try to get started on the customer system and digg up my old ipn classes for paypal and write a new caller for google checkout system. I really hope to get that up and running so that i can upload images.
More infor will be posted up, keep on reading….

Today I am in the process in launching a new forum about Mauritius. It is mostly discussion on events that are happening within Mauritius and a hangout for Mauritians around the world. Atm we are focusing on Mauritians in Britain and once we do get a number of visitors and poster we will start getting other countries involved.

I have started with typical general forums so that I can expand out later into small categories.
Later on when i get time I will implement a gallery into the board.

I recently aquired a vbulletin license & didn’t really know much about it, so for a few hours i decided to disect the template system and if i had time to disect the page system.

Template system:
first of all the css, from the hours spent on it i couldn’t find a place to paste in my full css edit, but I found a really neat user-interface to help me edit the css. The one thing that i liked about VB’s css is that there is only a few css tags that are used globally, I really loved it, the designing of a new style is really easy. The one thing that I disliked was the template pages, it was a bit messy and took me a while to understand, plus it would be good if it had a description of each template bit and where it can be found. Overall compared to ipb ill give it a 6/10

Page system
This is by far the easiest thing I have ever worked with. I was able to make a page within minutes, there are still functions that i need to get used to, like permission and such, but I will get the hang of it some time.

Overall it vb is good, but you need to sit with it for a while to see its features and usage.
Vb can be described like this:
“if you want to do 1 thing there are several options to that 1 thing, like how it is displayed, who can do what, when it can do that, does it need to display in a certain way?”

Alot of people use opera because of its speed, but I use it for webdesigning.
A few days ago I read that opera was the browser for web designers, so I tried it out for a whole day and I think it was great with the cache system it has and the build in validation tool, which I really like, but I could have done the same on firefox. The problem on firefox is that you don’t really seem to know where you went wrong, as the xhtml on firefox is too passive and allows small errors whereas Opera seems to go really strict on it and you can see where you went wrong with html.

Overall Opera is good for when i am designing web pages but I prefer firefox on website browsing as the cache system on opera is quite annoying as you could be looking at some outdated page without knowing.

From inbetween College exams and revisions I got really stressed out a bit, so I took a day off to relax.
So while relaxing I found this cool link on digg about smart, I knew about it but never got to use it, and I aint forgiving myself for that. SMARTY is from my experience the best template engine I have played and fiddled with. It auto cache part of the script that isn’t dynamic and also full cache dynamic pages if you want it to.
The best feature is the html logic it has, it is much advanced than ipb_kernel/template_engine.php as a standalone piece of class.

I am going to play with it a little more to get used to its html logic, because I like the way it saves time and server load. For any future standalone apps that I am making I am using SMARTY.

Yah, you noticed, we got 100 posts up on the blog.
Well anyway here is whats coming up, when I officially finish college on the 28th I will start working on icefuzion and icelabz.

So what we are planning for icefuzion:
Well I do not want to promise anything but we will try to get a proper homepage up and running and also getting a few things up that would help users out.

So what we are planning for icelabz:
Well after a long time, I personally decided to go for a commercial shop section where users can purchase components and other things. Most of the commercial products will be installed on icefuzion and may be customised just for icefuzion.