Right now I’m working on two classes, otThreads_Profile and otThreads_Utils_File (wrapped around DirectoryIterator). otThreads_Profile is quite the future of the system itself I must say, it’s simple, there are TWO types of configurations, the framework (system) configuration and the board configuration.

To put it more appealing:

System Configuration:

• Makes it flexible for the developer to specify Extensions folder and Profiles folder
• The goal is to allow the developer do some heavy-lifting in the future.
• Work with The Hub (not going into details…)

Board configuration

• Manages template paths, attachments path, board path, baseUrl
• Manages to change secret salts
• Locale
• Roots ID
• Authorization Key
• Application Run Mode (Testing, production, development)
• Provides a way to put a failsafe template path incase the path provide misses some files
• And of course, database credentials

There is still a lot of work to do, I should be getting myself started on MVC but right now there are more pressing matters, finishing these classes will help the framework to be smart. I’m changing the notion of how Routes should be managed, maybe… I don’t like reinventing the wheel, but the idea will help extension developers a LOT. Like… shared routes?

Anyway, final notes… I’ve been studying the concepts of ACL.. and I gotta say, it’s freaking annoying, do not misunderstand me though I’m not dissing ACL in any way, it’s just that I gotta cover a lot of ground. Creating the ACL classes are going to be a challenge for me.

And… dependency injection rocks.

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After two hours looking, I gave up, it’s still somewhere around the house but god knows where. I have a good memory but when I’m distracted–and let be honest, after around 4 months without internet of course I’m going to be distracted!–there’s no way I’m going to be able to retrace my thoughts =/. I hate being carefree sometimes :(, right now I just feel like “oh well, at least I got the internets!”

Good to be back :)

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Well, this past week and present week it’s all been about Java. I started creating a Video Encoder using FFMPEG, true I haven’t done much since FFMPEG do everything for me, but I learned a few things, JProgressBar needs a damned monitoring class, if I run the “encode()” method without creating a thread my GUI will freeze to death due to FFMPEG encoding the video. Literally my application is a GUI for FFMPEG, and I know there are hundreds out there, no need to point it out. Its been nice though, I’ve learned tons, like being slapped for not designing my classes and having a mess of  in the “view” class.

The thing is, it was exciting to see it working :) I encoded a video with a duration of 10 minutes and took around 7 mins to finish, regardless of “how long did it take” I was more proud of the fact that all my hard work is paying off, except for the designing part(not gui related). I should have put more emphasis on how classes will relate, but being a Java newbie well, there is still a long road. I’m happy though, I’ve been reading that C# (C-Sharp) shouldn’t be hard to learn once I get the hang of Java. To be honest, it was about time to get my hands dirty with a real language.

All that time didn’t go to waste, but it sure didn’t look like I was 99% near otthreads project. When I came back to reality and sat today with otthreads current code it felt like “variables are not objects…”… my designing skill is still rough… although I’m reading a book of UML and designing my classes feels like I have a lot to learn. Not backing down anyway, I’ve been reading more about Test Driven Development, something I’ve been wanting to do.

I’ve been introducing myself to PHPUnit, heck, it’s easy to set up, although a bit tedious if your classes depends a lot on other classes, but that’s sort of the idea, be able to see and test with data fixtures, correct the errors and test again. Oh well, we’ll see how it goes.

One more thing, now in my little project written in Java I want to try out implementing the Queue interface and allow queuing up videos.

Peace out!

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I’ve become fascinated with Java, Android and the Play! Framework. I admit, playing with Android with my current knowledge it’s quite frustrating. Moreover, it seems I’ve become obsessed with Java syntax, well, libraries. After seeing the power of Annotations in Java, I dared to check it out in PHP (Reflections) and did come up with a few helpful ideas that will help me and extensions developers (especially in this area).

Anyway, I created a guestbook which I’m hoping to deploy soon and make it available to the web. There were too many temptations while I created that guestbook, it was like a guestbook + video site + image uploads kind of guestbook, which doesn’t apply to the guestbook stereotype because it transcend what it should be… but begin new to Java I was tempted to try out so many things, some do-able (like video processing and image processing) and some quite hard to grasp (background processing, queue system, system tray icon, etc)

That’s it for my random posts :)

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Yet, I wanted to try JSTL, but I went against it. Thing is, I will be doing the exact thing, except I’ll be consuming even more time. I also want to save myself from studying the Servlet and all the talk about containers (and beans). I know, it’s an unavoidable subject but such could be studied in another time.

I’m hoping to finish my little “guestbook application” and upload it here. If GoDaddy allows me, which it should since they have Java installed along with JDK, it just a matter of tweaking… I think… gotta read… god knows.

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A few days ago, I started refactoring some classes in OpenType Threads, to make it more flexible when it comes to extending the class. I’m still on the planning phase, well, almost to end the planning phase. All this just to make the library flexible-many people might find it boring on how objects will depend to each other. The truth is, it’s fun.

Now, what do I mean about “the necessary evil”? I started creating a gallery web app (or script, I prefer “web app”), using Doctrine ORM and a few ideas I planned on using in OpenType Threads. Thing is, without planning, the whole script is just a bunch of disorganized classes with incoherent function names and descriptions. It certainly doesn’t have a Dispatcher because well, in the end I’m here to see the “truth”, or what I interpret as “truth”, what do I mean? Easy, as I go implementing my ideas there is a possibility that the way I thought of the implementation was erroneous.

Another implementation was the “MVC” wannabe method I created, it runs solely on “actions” and “views”, and quite messy too. I like it though, it does the job well, even for all the mess I did in the views object. It even has helpers! Although those helpers aren’t so helpful… (long story of a mess I created)

Once I start seeing the workflow, I sit down and reflect on what I just did and how to improve it (it’s important to always have a notebook with you, or notepad, seriously. I usually do this a week later so I can flush all biased thoughts). I’m still ignorant and inexperienced in many things, perhaps because of my stubborn attitude. That aside, grabbing a paper I start thinking of what I need and how will I process it.

Sorry if I’m not making much of a sense, I’m writing this quite slow and I get interrupted here a lot (I’m in a library).

It seems like an overkill having such a kick-ass ORM like Doctrine in a gallery script, of course not! The reason I used Doctrine ORM was to get familiar with it. After all I’m going to use it in OpenType Threads, and so far this ORM is…. made of pure awesomeness. The issue I’m now having is with autoloading classes and prefixing Doctrine ORM classes to avoid possible conflict.

I’ll say this though, I’m going to make amends for all the mistakes I’ve done. I just saw myself locking up the door of new possibilities and throwing away the key. Well, it’s not too late to caught up and become a decent php programmer. Well, it’s not like I’m going to care what other programmers will say, did that mistake once. Point is, I don’t want to create something that is going to become a mess in the future, better learn now than later, and refactoring is a pain in the ass sometimes. Releasing code to offer solutions to others or because you feel like is not bad, despise possible bugs which is always expected, it’s just trial and error.

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While I’m not so excited, yet not so ignorant-of exploring windows universe. I have come to realize that well, most companies still don’t have linux workstations and while there are many linux webservers and etc, etc servers. It’s still hard to see small and large companies moving from windows workstations, not that I blame them. So yea, learning configuring and learning this stuff can actually secure me a job at least here in P.R.

Besides this, I so need to upgrade to wordpress, maybe I should start soon. Everything has been halted =/ not much time on my hands anymore.

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Well, the thing about continuing studying might take a while. I’m really in doubt whether to continue on the computers field (computer science road) or aspire to be <fill in blank> ???.

Anyway, peace!

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It’s also quite frustrating, because I had other ideas of a few projects I wanted to take on. Yet most of them are extensions for OpenType Threads. Yet I won’t start talking about it after I finish the prototype of the forum software. One of the things I haven’t taken into account is the upgrade of extensions/forum software and most importantly the import of other bulletin board systems into OpenType Threads. I won’t bother with such thing yet, the design comes first.

Now to get a job or something =/

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I started to enumerate what I needed for my controllers and logic models to work, right now I have these

0. Set default time zone

1. Setting the path of the library
2. Registry to collect all the data I need, but I need to do a ini file reader, shouldn’t be a problem
3.  Set up doctrine in our way.
4. Load Access Lists and Roles and apply exceptions (the whitelist) from the database
5. Register routes.
6. Start localization with GETTEXT (probably won’t be implemented in this prototype)
7. Finally, the dispatcher

Now there was a problem though, I left out Sessions, data filters and some other stuff. but then I started thinking “I don’t need all of them…” Sessions will be called in the instance mainController is called and check for existing sessions and and that voodoo stuff.  That means we will have quite a light dispatch, not with unneeded objects.

I should tag all this project related talk… peace out

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