Long Time No See

Its been a while since I've posted much of anything, but I assure you there's a good reason.  It's for that same reason that I still won't be posting much until much closer to the end of this year.  However, whenever something is finished/started that I'd like you to know about, I'll pop on and post an announcement for you all.  And on that note...

Video Tutorials
We've been working on changing the way we deal with ZSF a bit, and since it has taken us closer and closer to ZSF 2.0, we've started looking at doing video tutorials for various things involving ZSF.  After purchasing the CaptureLib Screen Recorder, I made this video to test it out (and do a strange introduction to Subverion in Zend Studio as well as a few bits of information about ZSF).  Feel free to let me know what you think, I won't be offended (it was my first real try at making a video, it shouldn't be too good).

ZSF 01 - Project Creation

 

- Andy

Laughing Yoga?

I've been a bit sick over the past couple days, and though I'm recovering I have to admit it has had me feeling a bit down in the gutter.  By complete random chance, I came upon what really seems to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my life.  I won't shy away from saying that it did the job of cheering me up though!

 

 

- Andy

What A Week...End...

So what started as a small idea for a side project between z|Casey and myself has turned into one heck of a plethora of changes.  I'll go straight into the breakdown.

The Zibings Network
This was meant to be the side project.  We were going to create a new site for the Zibings Network, one that allowed us to provide a good centralized location for registering with the network, logging into the network as well as getting general information about the network.

What happened instead, was the birth of a whole slew of upgrades to the network infrastructure.  While doing the upgrades (which include things such as friends lists and private messaging), I was faced with the necessity of having to change the way ZSF worked.  And that is why, the second part of this is...

The Zibings Site Framework
Yep!  And as with the ZibNet updates, this one started out small as well.  I just needed to add one capability to one section of the framework.  In adding that functionality though, I realized that just throwing the feature in its place wouldn't do much good in the end to help the framework grow.

After a few hours, I'd completely rewritten the framework, and we now have a few bug fixes thrown in as well as a new event system (that was the feature I needed).

 

Either way, its been a lot of programming, and this forces us to do some major updates to ZTC soon as well, so keep an eye out for that.  We're flying around like little bees as usual, this time just a few more fun things are on the way for you the user.

 

- Andy

RIP: Jake

On Thursday this week, a great friend of mine and my family died.  Jake was 9 years old and was battling cancer for a short while.  He was a great dog and we will always remember him.  May he rest in peace wherever it is that dog's go.  I guess that smoking habit of his finally got him.

 

- Andy