Daryl Teo’s Blog

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I’ve got tons to prepare for the start of school, and lots of backlog to clear before I leave too. So I’ll be doing just that. However, that doesn’t mean I will be neglecting what I prefer to be doing, which is, thinking of horrendously complicated solutions to simple problems. In this case, it’s a little project I’m working on, experimenting a little with file operations in Flash. This is where FileReference comes into the picture. Read the rest of this entry »

Decided that a Wordpress Blog wasn’t going to cut it. So I might design a site from scratch, or use Joomla. So I’ll take it offline for awhile till I set it up. In the future, all content will be found at this blog. The official site will be focused towards the program, and not the development of it.

After days of planning, I’ve decided on the structure of AMFWP.

At first I wanted just a small set of methods to access the database, but I also wished to implement a more broad set of methods with less common usage. However, this conflicted with my original idea and I had to think of the best way to publish this integration package. Therefore, I shall be working towards this model:

Basic Package

This Basic Package will be enough for most users. They will mostly want basic operations in an easily accessible set of methods, and will adapt their application to the methods exposed by the low-level API.

Advanced Package

All the methods of the low-level API, plus additional methods/classes that allow more customisability on the client’s side, will be included in this package. These methods will mostly consist of very specific database access methods, such as getting a single detail of a post (ie post ID or post date).

Hopefully, these different models will provide a different set of tools for everyone, and most people will be happy with what’s on offer here. This is just the direction I’m heading in, and it may change in the future. Right now I will wait for more participation from the community, which should grow as I progress along.

Want to contribute? Head to http://darylteo.com/forum/index.php and post your suggestions, discussions and what not.

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http://darylteo.com/forum/

The site for my work on AMFPHP and Wordpress Integration can now be found at

http://darylteo.com/amfWP/

I have a strange coding habit.

Sometimes I need to create a class. Say I need to have a dog. So I create this dog class, and make it bark. Then I think to myself, what if I wanted to create a cat? How would I do that. Throw in an Animal class, and subclass it, making sure that each animal will have a correct sound. And since I’m doing that, I better make sure that I can define whether the animal is domesticated, 4 legged or 2 legged, big or small, or what colour it is too. All inside a fully versatile package, together with all the error detection anyone would ever need, and custom functions.

But all I wanted was a dog that barked.

Does anyone ever suffer from this “compulsive versatility” your applications or classes must have? When all you wanted was something that does a specific thing, and instead you build a full encapsulated class brimming with methods and functions that you probably won’t use, but others might?

I bring this up because, as some of you may have noted, I’ve been working on using Wordpress as a CMS, for Flash and AMFPHP. And Patrick Mineault of 5etdemi, and developer of AMFPHP, asked for volunteers to create a package to integrate Wordpress and AMFPHP. Now, as much as that sounds good and all, but for my purposes, I don’t need a full package, and I probably won’t finish it. Maybe its my self-perceived quality of work doesn’t seem up to scratch.

Well, hope I can keep at it. The other bad habit I have is losing steam really quickly.

Successfully moved. Nothing seems broken yet, but if you see anything please email me or leave a comment! Thank you!

Domain is still shaky. Not sure if its the hosting, or its just random instability.

Furthermore, I will be migrating over to Wordpress 2.1 soon. So I’ll have to make sure nothing breaks. Wish me luck!

Spent about 15 hours offline today, thanks to DreamHost suffering from an apparent DDos attack. Had to resync my feeds (again), and check everything is working as it should.

On a separate note, Wordpress 2.1 has been released! This was a mixed blessing for me: it comes at a time when I am working towards a Flash/Wordpress integration, so while I get to make sure it works with the latest version, I had to double check that all my work had not gone to waste. Thankfully, most of the database structure stays the same, except in the case of Links.

Instead of Blogroll having its own table, it now has a simple table of links, which are referenced by a Category in the categories table.

In other plans, I might start this blog from scratch, using Wordpress 2.1 . The more I post here, the more I have to migrate.

Shall fiddle around with flash some more. Many apologies for the downtime.

To my 2 loyal RSS Subscribers, if they should ever return, please re-update your RSS Readers to reflect the change (it seems that I forgot to change my Feed target in Feedburner, and it was still linking back to the original host)

Many Apologies!