ASD Clock Has Been Open Sourced - Waiting For Somebody To Pick It Up

[Axonn]

Now, in August 2009, almost exactly 6 years since the ASD Clock project was started, the time has come for us to draw a line in the sand, on the beach, and say "this is where it ends". But of course, a wave of water will soon come and erase that line and we will start all over again. The new start will be ASD Clock Generation 3, which is a whole different system and it's already in planning stages. However, at least 1 more year will pass until the first Beta versions will be ready. Until then, the current ASD Clock should be more than enough to remind our fuzzy groggy forgetting brains of the important meetings we have and to keep our clocks synchronized with the most exact servers in the world.

This is where it ends, but it can also be a new beginning, even for this generation of ASD Clock. Because instead of killing the project and forgetting about it, I have decided to Open Source it. Indeed, you may download the ASD Clock source code & documentation HERE. I have made this decision knowing that even though ASD Clock is not my proudest or my best creation yet, it does hold plenty of valuable know-how, especially in the field of hooking, inter-process communication and multiple "programming languages fusion" (ASD Clock uses a total of 4 programming languages: VB, C++, PHP and SQL). So if anybody in the Open Source community decides to pick up the task of continuing this generation of ASD Clock, I, of course, am more than willing to help in any way I can and stay with the project as a consultant. If not, then, well, tough luck. Too bad for all the work I guess. But even so, I'm almost convinced some people will be able to scavange some good code off ASD Clock. I just hope this will help somebody somewhere.

As for the future of ASD Clock... obviously, something better and greater will arrive. The next version of ASD Clock is to be rewritten from the ground up and will also be Open Source. You will hear more about this in 2010, as for the remainder of this year, Axonn Software Development has a few games to release, as it can be clearly seen in our new Forum section which saw a bit more activity lately, the Adobe Web Games area.

So... I will conclude this post by saying that... I thank to each and everybody who has worked at ASD Clock, especially Claudiu Rusu who did a great deal of design, Rares Pulbere who was always there for me, Frans "Frenzie" de Jonge who was beta testing the program for years (literally), Crina Angelescu who also helped move the project forward and last but not least, Csaba "Swoosh" Reman for also helped with a lot of beta testing.

Here's to the future!