Thursday, August 30, 2007

New Website

Unless you are coming here directly, you may have noticed our new site.  Kain Research now has hosting for our domain.  You can see our site at http://www.kainresearch.com.  There is some stuff there, but not a ton yet.

Updates will ensue as often as I can manage.  This will stay the official news source though, since it is already here, and quite a nice setup.

Drop by and have a look.  Let me know if you have any suggestions.

Friday, August 10, 2007

KShell - The (new) Kain Research Shell Overlay

Rather then continue to write my shell system in C (which was titled PShell), I decided to write it in C++.  I wasn't too far anyway, and am already making better headway in C++.

I also renamed it to KShell, for Kain Shell.  I had considered this to begin with, but decided not to seeing as how there is an existing shell called Ksh (Korn Shell).  I decided to change it anyway, since I plan on always calling it "KShell", and not shortening it.

More news when I get farther in.

Monocle - Updater

Work on the updater is going forward.  I am implementing it in NewLisp for the time being, since I can do it faster.  I am turning several other parts into NewLisp parts as well.  As soon as the system is usable, I will work on porting them to C parts (since C compiles smaller, and in technicality, NewLisp doesn't compile at all).

Fun stuff.

The logger is the only part that is written in C, and currently functional.  I may in the future port it to NewLisp, but since it is already in the target language, and already works, it's not a priority right now.