In this page you can find information about some projects I've been working on.

Back in 2010, NOVALISTIC 4.0 "Sarathos" was the biggest redesign I'd ever made to an entire site. But whose site was it? My very own. Nevertheless, it is a design that I still confidently say that I'm very proud of today.

Unfortunately, due to a major turn of events in my life (which is summarized some on my blog @ WordPress.com), as much as I wanted to learn to make my own money doing something I love, I ended up being unable to. Not only that, but I no longer wanted to do so either!

So, as I briefly mention in this blog post, I'll be returning NOVALISTIC to its days of being my personal site. I'm no longer accepting client proposals — and this has been so for quite some time as seen on the contact form — at least for now.

Version 4.0 is my most favorite redesign by far, but my site is going through another huge change in direction and focus, I have to take it through another redesign. However, I'll surely retain many of the space-related elements I incorporated into 4.0's design, including the color scheme(s). That's some good news, I guess.

Hence NOVALISTIC 5.0, code-named "Veldin". Unlike previous code-names which were randomly generated with a script, Veldin is a completely deliberately-chosen name. So why Veldin?

Veldin is the name of Ratchet's home planet in the Ratchet & Clank franchise (as well as a level in some of its games). I've long considered NOVALISTIC my online home, and now that I'm making it my personal site again with the new redesign, Veldin is the most appropriate, fitting code-name I can come up with for it. (For fellow Ratchet fans: yes, Ratchet was born in Fastoon, but he was sent to Veldin by his father at a very tender age during the Great War, where he then spent most of his life before meeting Clank. While Fastoon is his planet of origin, Veldin is where he grew up.)

Oh, and the version number has absolutely no correlation with HTML5. If I do code it in HTML5, it's by sheer coincidence. Don't count on it. Really. Don't.

Sarathos, a PHP (version ≥ 5.2.0) framework is currently in development. It is being built primarily for my own learning purposes, but I have plans to go open source with it so everyone can give it a try and help to improve it in the process.

The previous version of NOVALISTIC, 4.0, was code-named Sarathos. This framework was being built for it, hence the namesake. Although I'm moving on to a brand new version of NOVALISTIC, the framework will retain the name Sarathos as it's still essentially the same in-development framework.

Like CodeIgniter, a framework I used to use, Sarathos will be based on the MVC software development paradigm.

Read more about it in posts at blog.NOVALISTIC that are tagged Sarathos.

Winter is an upcoming Twitter client for Windows desktops, written in C# on the .NET Framework. It leverages the powerful visual and architectural capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and is designed for Windows 7 and its new features.

One of the major issues I've had with Twitter clients in the number of years I've been tweeting, is the fact that there isn't a decent Windows client. The existing ones are too much like TweetDeck, or no longer in development, or buggy, or just plain hideous. But they all had one thing in common: they were simply few and far between. I wanted a simple client that looked beautiful and provided a native Twitter experience on Windows, the most widely-used OS, so I set out to work on Winter.

Development of Winter is currently stunted/paused, though, as I focus on other matters. I may return to it for an alpha release in 2012 depending on Twitter's eventual stance on client applications.

You can still follow @winter_app on Twitter if you're intrigued by all this. I've also uploaded some design shots onto Dribbble, but don't get your hopes too high yet. Everything is just pure contemplation on my part at this point.

Oh, and if you're looking for a Metro-style application, whether on the desktop or for the actual Metro interface when Windows 8 arrives, I recommend that you check out MetroTwit.