About akaikiwi and stuff

As I've now started University I have less time for hobby coding, I'm working on some Java stuff now, as that's what I use at university, I'm working with slick and making some game development, not a full game though, just things like GUI and stuff, once I put together some stuff I'll finish a RPG I was working on :)
About akaikiwi, it's development has drastically stopped, but I plan on finishing it, not now, but soon, I have to do some PHP for work but all Joomla! related (which to be honest I pretty much hate Joomla! awful implementation of MVC but oh well...).
I'd really love to have more time and see more RoR and Django but right now I can't, I want to finish akaikiwi first, although I do take some ideas from those frameworks, I'm really interested in Django on Appengine, I think I'll deploy my next web app there, which is probably gonna be a designer's resource site.
Once I have more free time I'll work on some nice stuff I have on hiatus :)

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More on YUI and akaikiwi

So far, I've been working on a personal site, forum-like, and I've been playing with YUI more, I'm very satisfied, it feels way nicer and more like Javascript than other frameworks. I like the organization of widgets, plugins and extensions. It's really nice so far.
About akaikiwi, I'm adding little fixes here and there, thanks to my project, I always try to follow YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It) so basically add functionality when I need it, instead of when I think I will, this makes the libraries simple and tight.
The site should be finished by febrary but I think it might take until the end of march to get it up and running online.
About akaikiwi, I don't know when the first release is comming, but I think it will be released after this site is finished and tested.

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Drop Down Chooser

This is a little widget I made for Yui3 as I'm still learning, it seems very nice so far, it's kind of huge, but not hard, it just takes time.
It's just a basic dropdown chooser, but it can help a lot to make your life way easier, which is basically what widgets are for :)
The basic idea is that you create a new instance of the DDChooser widget, then set the launcherNode, which is the node which will launch the chooser, the chooser will position automatically and hide/show automatically too.
Here's an example:



You can download it from the NekoCM Bitbucket repository, you can also just see full code, or just the the min version (compressed with yui compressor).

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More on akaikiwi

I'm mostly working on fixing bugs right now, not much on adding functionality, as I'm not at home right now.
I'm working on my new netbook with linux mint, so I'm testing how everything works on linux. Once I finish seeking and repairing bugs I'll work on some more new features.
Akaikiwi is going very nice so far :)

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akaikiwi

So I've been working on akaikiwi a lot lately, I took a little break now as I'm not home for a week, but I'm working on documentation and adding issues now :)
akaikiwi is a PHP MVC framework, focused on beeing lightweight and fast. It's going really nicely so far.
You can see the repo here: http://code.google.com/p/akaikiwi/
I'm working on the wiki right now, it's still kind of far from first release, but it might not take that long, it just needs some fixes, a bit new features and a lot of testing.
Once that's done, I'll consider the first release :)
For now, I'll work on the wiki, you can check it to see the nice features and how to use it so far, you can also pull it from the repo if you wanna test it. I'll list some features here.

Features

• Very easy to learn
• Lightweight
• ORM
• Very good compatibility with limited hosting accounts, works with PHP 5.2
• Awesome performance
• Command-line CRUD generator
• Easy to extend
• Debugging tools (profiling)
• Cache
• Simple :)

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