Relaunch of 04064.com
Programming — mGee @ 12:13 am
Well, I finally went ahead and did it. 04064.com is now a dynamic site. Rather than developing it with Ruby On Rails, I decided on PHP. I got pretty fed up with Ruby’s sluggishness and Rails’ habit of crashing. No more RoR development for me. Though I can honestly say that all that time developing blocSonic and nvzion with RoR wasn’t wasted time. One thing RoR did for me was to help me get a grasp of MVC-based development. Bye bye RoR, hello Kohana — a nice PHP framework that strictly adheres to OOP and PHP5 utilizing the Model View Controller application pattern. So check out 04064.com when you get a chance. Also subscribe to the RSS feed to be kept up to date.
nvzion relaunch!
Programming — mGee @ 3:23 pm
It’s been a while since my design company’s site has been updated. Behind the scenes for the past few months, I’ve been redeveloping it using Ruby on Rails and today I finally was able to launch it. You’ll also notice the latest projects that have been completed since last year. Check it out!
Announcing blocSonic!
Programming, blocSonic — mGee @ 8:02 am
Happy new year everyone! It’s been an extremely long time since my last post, but with the new year I’m back with an announcement.
Just launched is my latest project — blocSonic. My first web project using Ruby on Rails. It took a while for me to become “married” to ROR, there were always things I liked about the platform, but at first there were more things that I didn’t like about it. Of course, one of the primary things I didn’t like is the one thing that I love now — the use of command-line throughout development. It’s not that I didn’t like the command line, I actually did quite a bit. It’s just that I was coming from a background in PHP and it seemed like a lazy shortcut to generate your file structure via scripts. It also seemed to add to the learning-curve which also put me off. So in my early exploration of ROR, I also checked out many PHP frameworks that claimed to do for PHP was Rails does for Ruby. After using these PHP frameworks as compared to ROR, it really was a simple decision. There’s absolutely NO PHP framework out there that works like ROR. I’m now a convert. I’ll find it hard to ever go back to PHP.
My only lingering gripe with ROR is the confusion that sets in when trying to figure out how one should deploy an ROR-based website. The Ruby on Rails team really do need to work on DRY’ing that process up.
Anyway… about my project. blocSonic is starting it’s life as a humble blog. Through blocSonic I’ll be releasing monthly/bi-monthly Creative Commons’ released compilations. Available in FLAC, 320kbs MP3 and 192kbs MP3, the comps will feature some of the best music available for free online via netlabels. 10 tracks deep, I focus on quality over quantity. I also focus on diversity. The premier release features the blues, hip-hop, trip-hop, electronic, rock and electro-pop. Every track is extremely addictive. You don’t believe? Go ahead download it and give it a listen. Every release will also boast artwork available in three formats — eps, pdf and tif. Also thrown in is a PDF booklet with full liner-notes.