burnatonce development status…
January 15th, 2007It’s obvious by now that not much time is being spent on burnatonce. This is due to a number of factors, not least being the need to have a real life as well as a ‘virtual one’ 
The main problem I have with burnatonce is the direction I intend to go would be better suited to a rewrite. For quite a while now I’ve been researching various programming languages to find one most suitable for this task. Along the way I’ve written test apps in VB.Net, C#, Powerbasic, C and even Assembly. However, a rewrite will require me to devote a big block of time to this task - it’s not something that can be done with an hour spent ‘here and there’.
Ignoring the path I want to take in the future, there are fixes that need to be put into place now. However, should I just patch the code up and release it as is - or should I spend time implementing the latest features of cdrecord etc. such as the integrated dvd writing? Again, this would be a task best left until I can make time for a rewrite.
The other problem is that I don’t actually use burnatonce that much anymore - I rarely burn discs as all my media is now stored on hard drives or portable devices. Therefore, any development will be purely for the benefit of others so please bear this in mind when you’re frustrated that no new features have been released for a while…
And then there is Vista, I’m actually running a test install of Vista but haven’t properly tested burnatonce yet. I haven’t got UAC enabled but that’s where most problems are going to arise. Although VB6 is supported on Vista I haven’t been impressed by the IDE when manipulating forms - another reason for a rewrite!
So, that’s pretty much the situation atm. I’m not actually working right now so hopefully I’ll have some time to spend with burnatonce soon but I’m not promising anything..
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-->Welcome to burnatonce.net
June 13th, 2006Welcome to the new burnatonce site, now available at both burnatonce.net and burnatonce.com.
The extended downtime was due to my previous host who gave me only a couple of days notice before shutting their servers down. By the time I had a new host to transfer to I had no way to authorise the move of the domain name so I just had to wait… and by the time that was done I was too busy with other things!
I’m hoping to get the site fully back up and running over the next few days but as I’m taking the opportunity to start from scratch you’ll have to bear with me. Also, there’s still ‘real life’ to contend with!
The new host has much more space, bandwidth and features so if you need decent hosting with friendly support please visit hostmonster. If you click the link and take up an account with them you’ll be helping with the upkeep of this site.