A year and a half later I resurface. No I'm not dead, and I haven't abandoned anything yet. Here's a big update for you.

I have not abandoned Surrogafier. If you check the development branch in Git, then yes you can see it's been awhile since I've touched it, but I will be correcting this and there is so much changed that I will be skipping the 1.0 release entirely since it's a stupid number for what I will have done. Probably will be 1.1 or even 2.0! I have some really cool things in there such as regression testing, so it will improve in time.

The entire forums feature has been removed due to spam issues. Everything meaningful was drown out by all the spam accounts advertising random crap, so I just removed it. If you find a bug or want to contact me, use the contact link from now on.

I have decided to publish a short story of mine I wrote quite a few years ago. I always wanted it published somewhere so I figure why not here, even if it's not about programming. Keep in mind I wrote that story more than 3 and a half years ago, but constructive criticism would be nice. The LaTeX and Lout source of the PDF can be found in the Git repositories. I have also updated the "My Awesome System" article to be more up to date with my forever changing system. Since I am now up to two pieces of writing, I have created a mini "Publications" section on the side bar to store both documents.

I have also created a new type of project, a "Git project", which is basically a project that only gets explained or distributed through Git. This will allow me to publish the hundreds of scripts that I write that never go past my ow
n computer in an easy way, so that means there will be more projects showing up here and much more frequently.

To get things started, I have added six new projects for you to check out. If they lack documentation or explanation you can email me about it and I'll be happy to help. These projects are more likely to not have documentation, thou
gh. The new projects are: ifsetup, IYT_stat, MusDB, MySQL_ERD, QStart, and SecDB.

Since things are going to get a bit more interesting on this site as far as news items, I decided to create an RSS feed to keep people updated. Even though the Git projects will not have version numbers (more than likely), I will still create news items for new projects and for projects that have major updates to them. Without RSS, It was probably quite annoying checking the site every 6 months to see if it was updated, and finding out it hadn't.

I don't plan on going into hiding for long periods of time again.

PS: Meh, why not. Art too!

New version of LFWrap. This program is now at a point where basically all useful functionality of DreamWeaver can be replicated by any other editor. At this point, I have no new features planned, and will be focusing on fixing bugs if necessary.

This release adds support for getting and putting files, recursively clearing all locks under a specified directory, and various bug fixes and optimizations.

New project released, LFWrap.

LFWrap is an executable wrapper for creating DreamWeaver style lock files for other editors. LFWrap is written in C++, and is cross platform (Windows and Linux tested).

I've written an article detailing "My Awesome Secure and Portable System". Fairly lengthy and very technical, so if you're interested in Linux security, check it out.

I also want to say that although I haven't posted anything or released anything since last May, I'm still working on stuff. The blocks of time I have to work on stuff is shorter, so I have more time to think of new features and new ideas, which means it's harder to get to the point where I feel a project is ready to be released. I've rewritten basically everything in Surrogafier, added so many features that people have requested, and fixed an incredible amount of bugs. I have no idea when it will be ready to be released, though.

I'm also aware that the GIT repository is broken. I'm working remaking that because the way I was doing it was really stupid. Hopefully I'll have this fixed soon.

I've been getting used to a couple new projects. First is Ion, which is an awesome window manager, and the second is GIT, a source code management system developed by Linus Torvalds.

I've always refrained from using source control management only because it required too much resources to use. GIT seems to solve all those problems, and has now become an integral part of my development process.

I have a GIT web viewer available here, and hopefully soon you'll be able to pull the repository in some way.

I plan on having nightly-ish backups of my development branches available on the GIT server. It looks like I haven't done much recently, but that's because I've been keeping a few upcoming projects secret. They still have a long ways to go, but hopefully they'll be up here sometime in the next couple of months.

I also hope to get a version 1.0 of Surrogafier and a new release of SQLIer done sometime before the end of August.