With ZygoZone fast nearing opening readyness, the team (as of now to be reffered to by me as the zygotes – pun intended) got their new swag today.
We couldn’t help having a little fun – as Arno here demonstrates.
Today, after nearly a year of design and months of coding, I am proud and happy to announce the first alpha release of ZybaCafe is available.
This release should be good to go in nearly any situation, but before I declare it stable I am giving users a chance to test it and try it out for themselves. Please send any requests for changes or contributions to me as we move into a test-phase.
ZybaCafe is a complete, multiplatform tool for managing internet-cafes and cybercafe’s. The core program is free software under the GNU GPL version 2.0 or later. ZybaCafe builds on the success of it’s parent-project direqcafe with many new enhancements that will greatly reduce the overhead in managing a cybercafe, while also being significantly easier to use.
The use of a complete postgresql RDBMS in the backend ensures data-integrity and simple network independence which has allowed ZybaCafe to go beyond the limitations of direqcafe as a true next generation cybercafe admin tool.
Even more exciting is the very powerful and fully integrated plugin tools which allows ZybaCafe to focus on being very good at it’s core task (cybercafe management) while making it easy to let it integrate with other tools such as accounting or CRM packages.
The alpha release has proven quite stable and very low on resources in our internal testing and as we move into external testing now, we look forward to seeing how it can grow.
My personal thanks to my employers OpenLab International for adopting the projec. ZybaCafe long went past the limitations of what a little one-man hobyist project can achieve. As of this version it became a company project with the full development team involved.
My sincere thanks – I couldn’t have done it without you guys.
Technorati Tags: ZybaCafe, multiplatform, managing, internet-cafe, cybercafe, GPL, direqcafe, postgresql, plugin, accounting, CRM, OpenLab
IRC chat this morning, about the old days of computing…
[ silentcoder ] I remember coding a password protection system for msdos 3 on my XT
[ mcnutcase ] Although, scarily, I probably am pretty high on a list of sporkers by age
[ silentcoder ] quite tricky, because I had to disable the Ctrl-Break keystroke (which I had to liearn)
[ silentcoder ] and then I had to hack config.sys so you couldn't bypass autoexec.bat
[ silentcoder ] and finally I built a direq IRQ call into it so if you mistyped the password three times, the machine autorebooted
[ silentcoder ] that was one thing about dos - your software could do bloody anything to the machine you wanted
[ silentcoder ] it was a power, usually abused
[ silentcoder ] on the other hand, you had NO usefull libraries, only 640k of memory (which wasn't a major issue since you could only assing 64k of variables anyway), 320x240 CGA graphics mode and no REAL networking
[ silentcoder ] *assign
[ silentcoder ] oh, and pointers weren't invented yet (though it's debateable whether that was in fact a BAD thing)
[ hobbs ] um, you're kidding right?
[ silentcoder ] hobbs, which bit ?
[ silentcoder ] I know UNIX had pointers back then, dos didn't, and I actually don't think the XT would have been able to assign them anyway
[ silentcoder ] the rest are all just as easilly verifiable fact
[ hobbs ] Pointers were invented long, long before DOS existed. It's just that DOS on a segmented-mode 86 was such a broken system that pointer arithmetic was halfway to impossible 
[ silentcoder ] yes, I know, I didn't mean it THAT way
[ silentcoder ] for a generation of programmers who first learned ms-basic and then turbo-pascal on IBM pc's
[ silentcoder ] pointers were invented along with the 386
[ silentcoder ] I mean we used to think it was seriously cool that you could have files of datatype
[ silentcoder ] (serialization wasn't invented yet either... and mind you neither were objects)
[ silentcoder ] structs (records for the pascalians) and ADT's were the state of the art
[ Maximinus ] .match lyrics shite
[ sporksbot ] I don't know anything about lyrics matching shite
[ silentcoder ] I would call it the good old days - except that it wasn't
[ Maximinus ] o/` Your music's shite, it keeps me up all night o/`
[ hobbs ] It was the "man, we were dumb" old days 
[ silentcoder ] hobbs, true
[ silentcoder ] but it made us men
[ silentcoder ] in the same way that circumcission does in other cultures
[ silentcoder ] I reckon if more of these youngsters had learned to work with a 64k address space
[ silentcoder ] we'd see a LOT less bloat
[ hobbs ] yabbut. That's not the point anymore. What's better, the inefficient software that you get to use, or the really tight, optimized software that never gets released?
[ silentcoder ] these days that is an abstract question
[ silentcoder ] since both sets are equally unusable
[ silentcoder ] but what grits me is that programmers seem not to even considder basic performance stuff anymore
[ silentcoder ] like using library calls rather than process-launches to do OS work
[ silentcoder ] a process-launch uses way more memory, adds a bunch of disk-activity, creates security holes and is less [tag]portable
[ silentcoder ] a library call (for example to change a file permission) works even if chmod changes it’s options, and is MUCH better on resources
* Astro_g (~Nick@d1244d7e.f0cb11e7.fe68c2e8) has joined #SPORKS
[ silentcoder ] and their reasoning behind a process call: it would take too long to look up the library calls, chmod had a manpage
[ silentcoder ] …
[ hobbs ] obviously someone hasn’t heard of sections 2 and 3 of man
Technorati Tags: msdos, XT, age, config.sys, libraries, UNIX, pointers, serialization, objects, performance, process-launches, OS, security, manpage
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