DDG Updates
DDG version ice: DDG version ice preview.I know I haven't been updating DDG that much lately and its just nagging at me that the engine's not as optimized as I had previously thought. I've been thinking where I want DDG to head towards in the near future. I don't think there's a lack of interest but rather a lack of time. As you know, I've been a professional web developer for nearly the past year now and when you're working fulltime developing people's websites, you tend to get sick of it and thus I haven't been coding DDG.
If the board didn't get hacked, I wouldn't have got my ass to patch up some of the code. The new board's development rolled back a notch after I managed to patch the hole where the hacker got through. Yeah, now the new board isn't so urgently needed. On the other hand, I've started working on DDG again. Some of the core problems was actually the database design. For example, the graphics table that holds the designs details. It is not normalized and is quite slow to run queries on the table. Same for the membership table that's holding over 20000 records currently. Dreamhost had already closed the membership tables twice after the queries ran so slow that it bogged down the entire MySQL server. Needless to say, I'm not too impressed with that. I immediately used a cron job to run those two queries and wrote the result into a text file, that solved the problem with the database load.
So, this time, I needed to improve the database design and that's quite a pain because the database structure is the very base. Not only would I have to almost re-code all the graphics and membership scripts, I have to re-code the admin scripts as well. Poor DDG, curently the new admin panel is barely half-complete.
I have too many things shoved on my backburner. The new DDG Admin Panel, DDG core engine itself, DDG Board, and integration of those two. I have half a heart to want to extend the board directly from DDG's core engine itself. That would definitely solved the integration problem, however the board has been hosted by Obi and I don't know how she'll like it if I integrate the board completely into DDG.
... did I see it die and go to heaven? No, kidding. (Yes, that made totally no sense.) But it does look familiar. Wasn't there a DDG layout previously that looked like that? I remember seeing that little bird on that specific color. *shrugs* It still looks great. =) Good luck on all that work you still have left on DDG.
reply Submitted by John (not verified) on Sat, 2006/05/20 - 12:20.