July 7th, 2010

We are in July

Already been a month since a blog post?!

That was fast!

Any who, here is the progress update. The memento for July.

Eslend - I believe I just, right now, literally, right now, finish the design for some new upcoming characters. I will be able to push some pages out. I hope LOTS of them. No promises though.

The Tosho – I just fix something that was broken and made it better. God. As I keep programming, I get better at coding. Here is the kicker, most of the feature The Tosho is providing has now transfer over to Kommiku 2.1. Except the Discussion Features, and Revision System. I plan to add some additional features to both The Tosho and Kommiku. But these are the features that will be in The Tosho and probably not in Kommiku.

  1. User Uploading Chapter
  2. Revision System 2.0; Basically approve chapter that user upload.
  3. Amazon S3/Cloud Storage Upload

Kommiku – Okay. Lots of features and lots of stuff I need to work on. Did I mention lots of additional feature that I will work on in the future. Here is a list:

  1. Multi-page Uploading from the Button.
  2. New Default Skin that obviously separates itself from WordPress.
  3. Server-side Image resize; Resize your image to a certain width/height.
  4. *S3 Amazon/Cloud Storage Uploading.
  5. Click on Image to go to Next Page. “Right Click” on Image to Zoom In/Out.

Also, here are the new and exiting things to look forward to. These are things that are already in and are in testing:

  • Api System (For beta testers and perhaps commercial use <_< OH NO!)
  • FTP Image Dumping (Professional Version)
  • Connect a Page to a WordPress Post
  • Multiple Authors / Scanlators listing
  • Index Override
  • Search System
  • Category System
  • Directory Listing (and Url)
  • More Series Information.

I think that  covers it.

[Note] I will release Kommiku 2.1 when I want to release it. It feels stable now but I think it may take another month or two.

Eventually, I want to make a commercial product out of Kommiku. So there will be some feature not included in 2.1 (such as the FTP Image “Dumping” Uploader).

I have made this product free, and it is eating up a lot of my time (That is time I should be using to focus on Eslend). I already have what I need from Kommiku, and even thought I like the concept of “free”, I myself need to be compensated when I give out free stuff.