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The Future is Bright!
We are planning quite a lot lately. With the upcoming advent of our new blog(s), we believe that we will have enough income to facilitate the purchase of dedicated servers--hardware!
In other news, as soon as our green screen studio gets built, we will begin to film for Romany Carvan. From the looks of it, we'll be able to provide ourselves with better equipment in the near future as well.
We are planning quite a lot lately. With the upcoming advent of our new blog(s), we believe that we will have enough income to facilitate the purchase of dedicated servers--hardware!
In other news, as soon as our green screen studio gets built, we will begin to film for Romany Carvan. From the looks of it, we'll be able to provide ourselves with better equipment in the near future as well.
Merkey.net Reclaims Position as the Capital of the Internet!
From this point forward, we'll be using Merkey.net as a sort of base of operations for our other projects. DSmeet, StrategyWiki, etc. as well as the few we plan to start in the upcoming weeks. The ads on DSmeet have once again convinced me that ads can be used to sustain a business. (Hey, if bloggers can make 100k a year...) We may be able to provide some really solid services, communities, and informational websites without incredibly intrusive ads and sustain ourselves from the income of these websites. Sustain and expand, of course! I do aim to take out IGN. :)
Now that the first quarter is almost over, I need to work on our long-term yearly strategy plan. What services are we going to build? Which ones are more vital at this moment? How can they help sustain our organization? Can we seriously live off of this kind of venture?
There's a lot to consider now...
From this point forward, we'll be using Merkey.net as a sort of base of operations for our other projects. DSmeet, StrategyWiki, etc. as well as the few we plan to start in the upcoming weeks. The ads on DSmeet have once again convinced me that ads can be used to sustain a business. (Hey, if bloggers can make 100k a year...) We may be able to provide some really solid services, communities, and informational websites without incredibly intrusive ads and sustain ourselves from the income of these websites. Sustain and expand, of course! I do aim to take out IGN. :)
Now that the first quarter is almost over, I need to work on our long-term yearly strategy plan. What services are we going to build? Which ones are more vital at this moment? How can they help sustain our organization? Can we seriously live off of this kind of venture?
There's a lot to consider now...
Merkey.net - Alive and Kicking!
It wasn't too hard to put a fresh coat of paint on Merkey.net. Some of the stuff is reused from DSmeet.com, such as the database connection class. I expanded upon the class by creating a more automated way of doing SQL inserts, and I'll soon add the same for selects, etc. It's simply a much easier way of handling easy queries. I'll probably begin to wrap all of the results in classes of their own soon. I do this in preparation for the program Ian and I are working on as the database classes will be reused there as well.
The templates are done in Smarty. Ever since I used it with DSmeet, I've fallen in love with the template engine. It makes it so much easier to separate presentation and business logic!!
Now that news is being pulled from the database, I'll probably quit for the day. There will be more added soon. I'll revise the sessions class (add more depth and security) and also include a user levels definition to go with it. This will be backported into DSmeet and the program Ian and I are working on.
That reminds me--I'm way behind. I need to write some ERDs, use cases, and class diagrams. Ugh...
More soon!
It wasn't too hard to put a fresh coat of paint on Merkey.net. Some of the stuff is reused from DSmeet.com, such as the database connection class. I expanded upon the class by creating a more automated way of doing SQL inserts, and I'll soon add the same for selects, etc. It's simply a much easier way of handling easy queries. I'll probably begin to wrap all of the results in classes of their own soon. I do this in preparation for the program Ian and I are working on as the database classes will be reused there as well.
The templates are done in Smarty. Ever since I used it with DSmeet, I've fallen in love with the template engine. It makes it so much easier to separate presentation and business logic!!
Now that news is being pulled from the database, I'll probably quit for the day. There will be more added soon. I'll revise the sessions class (add more depth and security) and also include a user levels definition to go with it. This will be backported into DSmeet and the program Ian and I are working on.
That reminds me--I'm way behind. I need to write some ERDs, use cases, and class diagrams. Ugh...
More soon!
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