IP.Dynamic has been in “on-off” development for a long time. Some of the files I’m working on proudly display their creation date as “Wednesday 28th January 2004″. It seems impossible that some IP.Dynamic files are almost three years old.
Since that time, IP.Dynamic has been through a lot of changes both cosmetically and in structure both to keep up with the ever changing web landscape and changes in PHP, MySQL, etc.
IP.Dynamic has been in development for so long, I’ve changed Macs since I began. I retired my old G4 iLamp about a year ago and never got round to transferring a lot of my old files.
I have a folder on my desktop for the month and I throw all my miscellaneous files into that folder. At the end of the month I throw it into a folder called “Monthlies” for storage. I always intended to archive off the monthly folders onto DVD but never got around to it. The result is three years of monthly folders totaling around 31gig. Yesterday I dug the old Mac out to copy the files before formatting the drive so I can sell the old Mac. Among those files are some early IP.Dynamic screenshots which I though would be fun to share - especially when comparing them to current screenshots.
So, below are two images. IP.Dynamic “then” and “now. Click the thumbnails for a larger image.
Edit: Here’s a concept sketch drawn up after a few weeks of research on how IP.Dynamic should work. I think the end result is actually pretty close to this. This was done late 2003.
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November 30, 2006 at 11:56 am
.KX
Holy. Crap. The difference between the two images is just - insane…
November 30, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Danny
Very nice, how much for the old Mac?
November 30, 2006 at 1:28 pm
Brandon
Wow, that’s phenomenal progress right there from the “then” and “now” pictures. Very nice entry, Matt!
November 30, 2006 at 1:30 pm
Michael Lysons
Excellent post - the squiggly diagram obviously being the best part!
Roll on Jan 2007 - finally get to see if this custom content system is the answer for me :-0
November 30, 2006 at 4:18 pm
Myr
It is very cool how software evolves from its inception.
I really like the new screenshot.
November 30, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Stuclark
I’ve seen that diagram before somewhere…I think…
November 30, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Matt
Probably on the back of a beer mat in a London hotel…
November 30, 2006 at 4:44 pm
Brendon Kozlowski
Oooh, I see versioning controls in that sketched diagram…here’s hoping that made it in!
November 30, 2006 at 5:30 pm
Matt
Funny you should say that. I’m working on the abstracted, module based versioning system right now.
Expect a blog about it next week.
November 30, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Professor P
You should sell the mac unreformatted, you’d probably get more money from the IPS community
December 1, 2006 at 12:54 am
Bob
I’d probably switch the HDD for a shiney new one or make sure i did a full secure erase of the current HDD (twice to be sure) so that no-one can use fancy file recovery tools to get any ips info off it. there are people that would try!
On IP.D, i liked the red design!! I’m biased towards the reds though (My sites usualy start or end up with a red theme…).
December 3, 2006 at 1:21 am
MazZziKa MazZziKa, Sr.
:d then .. now .. future
i hope to see the future pic and hope the new script to be dynamic and can run a big number of sites
December 3, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Brendon
The future of AJAXy apps is going to give administrators the ability to do certain commands while OFFLINE, or not directly connected to the site (so that interactions are instantaneous) and then silently send the saved data to the server either at a specified time (such as when completed), or when the user gets online. In fact, it’s already being worked on by http://www.parakey.com/ — one of the people on this venture is the creator of the Firefox Firebug plugin.