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A while ago, I promised to do a post to update you all (If you are still reading :D) of what I have been doing, well here is the post.

I have been busy working away at bluestring (yeah, you will still have to wait a while to know what it is), I started it in Rails (I took the modifed scaffolding route), didnt really like it so I am in the process of deciding between Python(Django) and ASP.NET, I would prefer to use aspx (as I know .net slightly better than I do Python, and I would most likly write some of the backend things in C#) but the price of licencing and things (If I was to go the aspx route I would want windows hosting) could be a problem.

I also have been writing a programming language to play around with a few ideas of mine, such as self modifying classes, progmaticly injecting methods / propertys into a class, and other ideas.

I also have been playing with Linux(Ubuntu 8.04 FTW!), MySQL, Postgresql, Apache, and a few other things.

Thats about, it, well apart from school(going well) and whatnot. 

So,

In this blog, I have been known to bash telecom quite a bit.

And it seems that they have changed. Over the last two days, I have been having some problems with the DSL at my house, so I rang the helpdesk.  They were really helpful and they ended up tweaking my power profile so that my DSL is faster (yay!!) (the helpdesk operator was Neil / Simon [I think]).

I am really impressed Telecom, keep it up and I may stick with you in the future.

I’m still here,

Been busy.

Will do a detailed post sometime in the next 48 hours

Damnit, I hate when I find a handy link and I forget my delicous account password while out and about:

http://gojko.net/2008/05/07/castle-demo-app-activerecord-basics-and-unit-testing/

Well,

I’m alive.

And working on something.

Potential kick ass factor = High.

Ammount of work needed to get it working properly = Alot.

I will do a bit of a catchup post and whatnot In a couple days

I’m sort of getting a bit bored of blogging at the moment.

So I think I’ll have this month off blogging (unless of course something really interesting happens or is released)

See you in May! (I might even have some software to release)

Apache is weird, but cool.

PHP isn’t as bad as I thought it was(its not awesome but…)

Alot of people cant code PHP that well (like 60% of people who code in php are crap at doing it, admitily PHP is a bit of a hack language).

Globulation2 rocks.

Uninstalling still needs to be worked on a bit.

Ubuntu should update the Mono binary in its repository to version 1.9

Ubuntu online help is pretty awesome

Nano is soooooo much better than vim (*runs for cover* :D)

If people changed the ServerSignature property to off in their apache2.conf files, that would make the world a bit more secure

Now then, back to Windows as my main OS!

Disclamer: I am a Linux n00b and things I say should not really hold much weight (In relation to Linux anyway!)

Tuyware’s xGeneration BETA

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So I am building [what I think will be] a kick ass Templating engine / programing language for anything (well sort off), called Templ.

So far I have added the ability for templates to include functions (Via use of Funt<T, TReturn>), loops and variables, for example heres a template from my test folder:

Hi [[yourname]]

heres the numbers between 1 and 100
[[numbers:1,100]]

<<20>>
Im a map
<<endl>>

[[yourname]] represents a variable called yourname
[[numbers:1,100]] represents a function called numbers with the parameter 1,100 (in Templ, everything is a string)

<<20>> represents the start of a loop that will iterate 20 times
<<endl>> represents the end of the  loop, anything between this and the start of the loop will be repeated 20 times

As you can tell, It isn’t exactly a templating engine, it’s more of a template parser/ programming language.

In the code that processes Templ, you declare variables with the following
Templ.Variables.add(varname, varvalue)

To delare a function you use the following
Templ.Function.add(functionname,function)

I am hoping you managed to get that, it is not as confusing as it seems when I explain it.

Now, here is the part where I need some feedback. As I am going to Open Source Templ, Is there anything that you would like to see in this (other than me hitting the delete key on the project :P)?

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Tags: Templ, C#, Templating

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