dotSpiral is suppose to be a portal to my projects. I am unsure if I should keep a blog hence I been quite inactive on it lately. I come to this conclusion because I want to open another personal blog.

Anraiki is my portfolio and my noteblog.
dotSpiral’s blog is suppose to be about updates on Kommiku and other projects that may had become of interest. However, I have been on a quest of self-development.

Now I feel like opening a third one to show my development.

Until further notice, I will be closing the blog or put it off on a hiatus.

It has been a while since I last posted @ dotSpiral and here is my little manifesto.

I have been heavily studying the fine arts of drawing.

Thus, my programming and developing skills has been lacking which includes The Tosho and Kommiku.

Now, I finally gained the time to work on them.

Stay tune, I am updating Kommiku as I type this now, and I plan to continue developing The Tosho to become a better Manga Reader and prepare it to have a community.

Many things to do!

I learn quite a lot this semester, and I can say that I am ready to go back to updating my projects again.

I want to tackle on two more projects. One of them I am unsure of but one would be a game.

The next update should be around the end of May and I should be ready to deploy a update to Kommiku as well. See ya then!

As you can see, I been trying to find quick solutions to the bugs found in Kommiku 2.1

However, they aren’t quick enough. The problem is I don’t have a lot of time in my hands. I am on full time student which is almost about 40 to 70 hour a week of time gone in the drain.

If I did have free time, I would spend it on helping you guys out. Until then, sorry for the delay.

Things I am going to do:

Anraiki.com will now be a personal blog or a personal site about me.

dotSpiral.com will be a portal for all the projects I am currently doing.
Still…. I am quite approaching this unprofessionally aren’t I?
I believe it could be a new style of professionalism.
I will have to be consistent however.

Eslend.com will remain the same.

TheTosho.com is updating even more slower. I have to get some motivation to get it together. But until then, I will have to update slowly.

And I made it in time!

As always, if you find anything silly happening in the plug-in, let me know, I will try to fix it ASAP!

As for plans for 2.3 (or 3.0), I plan to create the premium feature so I can sell to people who are interested in making a “Community”.

Stay Tune!

December and January is going to be a busy month for me :]

Expect Kommiku 2.3 soon.
It will add some new interesting features as will as some bug fixes.

The Tosho is also getting the same update that Kommiku is recieving.

More Eslend! Yes!

Happy Holidays everyone!

I am getting some motivation issues for some reason.

I am unsure if it’s because I have recently become so busy with School and Work, and I can no longer focus on my personal projects. I am doing my best to stay on track though.

So bare with me in Fall, Autumn, and Winter!

I just had the most crappiest week, and here I am, smiling!

Kommiku 2.2
Not released yet. Though, I have a gist in what I want to do with it. I am going to be adding remote hosting (ie, Amazon S3), and I am also going to be moving the Theme folder (Because WordPress likes to overwrite and delete files).

2.2 will not be worked on until I smashed all the bugs that were introduced in 2.1. But it’s very close. Very close! I wait a week until I have yet to receive a bug report, and that is when I start to work on 2.2.

Simutaneously, 2.2 will be released with a Wiki, so you can use Kommiku to its full power.

The Tosho
I just recently updated the interface. I have a few things to do. Add image support for each series, fix a bug when updating the series information, and fully lay out the Revision system.

There so many other stuff, but I have also many “clutter” stuff in my mind.

Good luck to me!

However! Last month, I stated some features were going to be in it, I am actually omitting some of them to the “Professional” version of Kommiku which will be release in the future.

List of features that are in 2.1 at this very moment:

• Index Override
• Search System
• Category System
• Directory Listing
• Additional Story Information
• Zip/Rar Chapter Dumping

2.3 Features:

• Kommiku API
• Language Localizing/Internationalizing
• Professional Version Features

As usual, if there are any kittens found with-in Kommiku, report them here. I will  smash take care of them.

Other Plans:
Eslend. On a ROLL! I am actually releasing pages :]
The Tosho. Developing slowly. I will probably get on it later this month.
dotSpiral – I will be doing some slight updates to the layout.

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.