Development never stops...

January 23rd, 2010

After such a huge setback, it has taken me a while to recover myself and continue moving forward.  Since this bad news I have learned that what I require as an alternative is VPS Hosting.  VPS will allow me to control every aspect of the site without having our own personal server.  We can assign a domain name to a directory on our Glacialis server, and it will look like the client has there own site, which is exactly what we want.  However, VPS Hosting is expensive, we don't have a client base yet that is a dependable income for us.  I don't wish to be negative, as I know that Glacialis will succeed, just needs to progress a little slower.  No point in running before we can walk right?

So I have been perfecting my design, tweaking and generally getting things into a good position.  I have also made a new module.  AutoBanners is what I named it.  It allows you to assign a banner on a page and that banner shows at certain times that you assign.  For example, you can assign a Valentines banner to show between February 1st and February 20th. If there are more than one assigned on a certain date it will automatically pick a random one.  You can also assign a banner to show all year round.  It turned out pretty cool.

I have also been working on the group permission control system.  The idea is to allow greater control over user access to prevent some users from viewing or manipulating sensitive information. I have managed to increase the number of permissions from 18 controls to 90 controls.  If permission is denied to a certain area, it simple doesn't show up in the system. Even if the user knows the correct URL to access a certain part of the system, they will still be locked out and a system log entry is created, telling administrators of your actions.

So, I haven't stopped development, I have just moved my attention to other areas of the system, perfecting the design.

Thanks for reading

Paul Jacobs