I’ve had a few projects sitting on hold for a bit and wanted to give an update on whats going on with each:

Nakid CMS

I decided to do a complete overhaul on Nakid CMS. The system was started in college as class project and expanded into something I use for 80% of websites I develop. While the user working with Nakid may not notice, the internal code is difficult to work with because of the evolution of my knowledge over the 4 years it has been in development.

The tough choice was deciding on a framework, or if I should use one at all. I have recently been reading up on CodeIgniter and have used it in a few tiny projects. I am very impressed with what I have been able to do with it so far, and the simplicity and small amount of time that is required to develop large projects. This seems to be what I am sticking with for now and have already been deep into development in a completely new version of Nakid CMS.

Nakid was originally created with the intention of users being able to develop their own modules (similar to Drupals platform). With no interests from other developers in doing so, I have decided to remove this feature in future versions. Nakid CMS will be given as a package including a page editor, photo gallery, product catalog, and eventually come with other features such as a blog writer and form maker. Another new feature Nakid CMS will contain is theming by developers. Finally, the biggest change will be versions. Nakid CMS will keep track of changes to content, so if you or your client make a mistake on the page (such as deleting or overwriting the content by mistake), a previous version will be ready for you to roll back to.

Currently the project is very close to having a beta release. CodeIgniter just released a new core version so I will be upgrading the application to fit that framework. As for Nakid, most of the application is setup and the content editor is programmed. Much of what is in progress is the image gallery / catalog so what I may do is release a version that only contains the page editor. Expect to see a new version soon in the upcoming month or so

Mighty War

Mighty War is my newest project which is essentially an online ‘board game’ style multiplayer game. I wavered between doing this in Drupal since the game will contain many things that Drupal can do by default. I decided again however to stick with CodeIgniter since I will have easier control over what I can do without needing to create Drupal modules to take on the job. I will post more on this as it develops

Undead

Undead is another browser based game I am working on. Have some ideas down on paper, but still figuring out the best deployment method

RoboIM

RoboIM is a chatbot creating project I was working on years ago that I do plan on continuing to develop. More to come…