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While the author is right an a few points about the complexity of modern PHP frameworks,
his comparisations are a bit off.

First, his cloc comparistation of Epiphany or slim vs symfonys http kernel totally ignores that symfonys kernel can do more out of the box, and has to do a bit more cause it integrates in a larger framework – obviously something simple needs less code, but it can achieve less aswell.

I can remember Rasmus Lerdorf speaking against PHP Framworks, and giving a hello world example for it – and he was kinda right, if you write a hello world script, you don’t need a framework. The same can be said about those microframeworks – they allow to do small tools, websites or jobs quite quick, but they lack when its about larger applications, and they get pain in the ass when working in a team. Also while the code can be quite readable and organized you often end up with a more throw-away-and-rewrite approach over reuse of code.

he writes he wants to do less code? slim framework, wrong approach. (he is right about the maintaining part though.

Now I don’t really expect many people to have heard of a software that’s not even beta yet.

Well the name is a mix of king23 and killboard, king23 being the php framework kingboard is based on.

Now about a release of the software.the source its actually public for quite a while now, and a first beta release package should be there soon.
My last goal was xmas but Karbowiak is kinda pressuring me to go faster, so we might see at least a beta package a bit earlier – both dates depend on my rl, so no promisses made.

If you want to run kingboard (beta) for your corp,alliance or character you should familiarize yourself a bit with running and maintaining mongodb. If that sounds like a stupid name to you, and you don’t have the slightest idea what mongodb might be you probably better wait for evsco hosted kingboard.

Regards,
PP

• timeouts should be a better fit, causing your client to freeze less
• a crash that occured when eve-kill was not available for the background service

And one new Feature:
you can now setup the interval at which EVE: Supers Do Die!
checks for new mails (provided that you run the background service).

to enable the notifications, start the app, press your menu key, and then choose
notification service and then start.

atm its fixed setting to check every 15 minutes (future version will have that configureable)
so it wont drain too much of your battery (application should only draw while checking)

Another solution to the problem would have been to autogenerate the stats regulary, however to do that for all sorts of stats by allways map/reducing the full data.. well that gets quite slow too.. so stats would have been generated every two hours or so (well maybe one)).
Thank god MongoDB 1.8+ allows for ‘reduce output’, which basically means the result of a reduce saved in a collection will be auto reduced with the result of an reduce. That makes it quite easy to do incremental map/reduces, you only map the new data, reduce it, mongo takes the old stats reduces the old stats + the new stats, and tada you have the result. With this the run times of the map/reduce get quite manageable, so in my test install im generating all stats every 3 minutes atm (could go as small as every 5 seconds if i wanted to).

Kingboard is supposed to be a new killboard software, which makes alot of things better than the old EDK, see links below for more information.

with the interest having calmed down it seems i’m currently the only one left working on it, and with me having a new job i didn’t really have the time to put into kingboard lately that i would like to have had.

That said, due to me being sick at home i found some time the last few days to make a few smaller changes; first of all i’ve switched the layout to something based on twitters bootstrap, allowing me to care less about the looks while still looking better then the homebrew we had before.
and the second thing is that, since i launched an alpha on basis of my alliance, i put in a few details that make a difference between a common killboard for everyone and owned killboards like those of an alliance (for example kill/loss indicator on kill lists)

Screenshot

Links

• Kingboard on Github
• Twitter’s Bootstrap on Github

LG,
PP

Since playing arround is most fun (for me) if it leads somewhere,
i wrote a small app that shows super capital kills in eve online.

The app can be found in the Android Market, and is kinda free (kinda because i added admob ads – i paid for publishing to the market, so i think its fair to put in an ad .

Screenshot: