It's been a little while for blogging here, I've been keeping busy. GTA IV is just 11 days away and the updates have been occurring every day.
Inbetween that, work has been happening daily on AdaptCMS, from bug fixes to minor enhancements. As said on Insane Visions, v1.2 of AdaptCMS is like a "mini-major version". Numerous security enhancements, new features, heavily improved features and a LOT of minor improvements.
The beta for AdaptCMS Lite v1.2 should hopefully go up by this weekend. Of course AdaptCMS as a whole is basically the same, but there are several things that are greatly enhanced.
Another thing I've been working on has been the Packs; basically it's a bunch of content pre-loaded. I've been working on the PS3 pack (or the "next-gen" pack, unsure yet) so far and have it nearly done, I underestimated the amount of work. For the PS3, 138 games (from launch to GTA IV) with full info (publisher, developer, esrb rating, description, genre, release date and boxart), takes a lot of time!
Well that's about it for now, the next week is going to be very busy for me. If I can get the Beta out, then I'll have for other stuff, including the much-anticipated GTA IV. :D
Ah, decisions, decisions, decisions. Make a free version of AdaptCMS? Sell a few sites? It goes on and on. At this point It looks like there is an excellent chance of AdaptCMS Lite happening. I think it would just be a good thing, with a delay of one year and changing it to a pay script before the delay, really hurt the hype and anticipation. Having it free would also have a much bigger audience.
Project wise I am looking to do another script, possibly making the "File Explorer" seen at my old site "ScriptHost4Free", an open source script.
I'm writing this now, about to go to work in about 20 minutes. First off AdaptCMS will be released this summer, it's been plagued from multiple delays but I am getting the 20-25 hours I asked for and will have time to work on it. Yesterday I worked on it quite a bit actually, fixing several gaping bugs with the relations (ex. I had a game page and had several news articles and a review linked to it, numerous problems).
I had planned to wait on the packs, but with the bugs I am fixing thanks to truly testing it out, I'm glad I will be doing them. Both the Game and possibly Blog pack will be ready before release and for the Game pack specifically, will include templates for the sections (reviews, previews, news, features) full with pre set fields and such as well as 50 pre-loaded games. The templates themself will not be graphical because it would be pointless unless you are editing the default layout, but will take advantage of using custom fields and advanced features. On a game page you will be able to see the review score and see for example, Halo 2 game info on top of a news story.
