The Ignition Project

We have switched hosting providers. Previously, I was hosted by long-time Ignition Project member Bobd314. He no longer uses the server, so he decided that he’d use that money on something more important, like gas or food. So, now, we’re hosted by my current employer, Posima. This will hopefully change in September or so (I’m going to college, and I’ll use my static IP there to run a server). Anyway, there are a few slight changes I made during the switch:

1. The Ignition Project’s SVN repository is now located at http://svn.ignition-project.com/ instead of http://svn.ignition-project.com/repo/. Please switch all working copies to the new URL!
2. Bugzilla doesn’t work on the new server and I have no desire or intention on making it work. It was a dirty, awful hack to begin with, and on this server, I do not have permissions to do Perl magic (well, I do, but I can’t, because it may break some scripts that the web host depends on). I will likely be putting up Collaboa, a Rails-based ticketing system. In order to keep bug numbers sane, I will port over bugs manually (I have the database) and resolve them as needed.
3. If you were using the private SVN server on port 8080, please contact me, and I will give you new credentials and a new repository URL.
4. I still have not finished the new site. Sorry!

Also, for ignitionServer NG, I am down to the following language choices: Objective-C, C, possibly C++, and probably not D. If you have strong opinions for or against Objective-C or C, please let me know via e-mail!

No, I’m not dead. I’m officially graduated (well, er, I have been for like, a month now), so there’s no pesky school stuff in my way at least for now. Anyways, I’ve picked up the source again, and I am ashamed of myself. On a code-level, this thing is an abomination. Sure, it’s classful, but there are still issues with the VB code being unclean in nature. I mean, I look at it, remember late night coding sessions and remember the awful hack that I put in to make things work, since VB is inherently an awful language. I look at some frameworks I attempted to put in before I put it down, and I now remember why I put it down – Visual Basic sucks. I want to put in frameworks and APIs so I can easily add features in the future. But, it’s nearly impossible. I mean, it’s possible, but doing it in an object-oriented and clean way is difficult. So… I think that I will look into writing it in C++ or something. I’m itching to code on something, and my employer knows this – but unfortunately, we’re not starting his big project yet. So… I think… that uh… I might begin work on ignitionServer NG (Next Generation) sometime soon. The site’s also being worked on. The main issue is STILL forums, though I admit I haven’t really done work with it. We’ll see. I’m going to make a promise to myself that I will commit SOMETHING to the SVN repo this week.

Also, I’m going to save all you programmers a big long search through the greater depths of hell..er..the MSDN Library. You can find the full VB language reference here. It’s impossible to search for because the page is nearly blank and is titled “Reference”. I spent HOURS looking for this page, only to find it in my bookmarks. So, I’m doing the world a favor.