VisualMIX Engine

Freaking Wildchild — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:28:38 +0000

The VisualMIX engine is a combination of hard labor, industry research and sleepless nights together with a dim screen with white letters. Welcome to the engine written in Perl, created over the few years and implemented so tightly it’s an event on itself! It’s technology supports (but not limited to) a full customizable templatable website, virtual domain support, advanced VeXX (XML) script language supporting dozens of on-line services and feeds, advanced protection system with granular security, download protection, diverse on-line media and document formats are supported on-the-spot, API supporting raw-import for iframes and RPC:XML for exporting filesystem details.

This engine is currently on-the-move, under construction and deconstruction. The sites below could be down because of this migration.

I wouldn’t be promoting something if I wouldn’t be eating my own dog food .. right? Some of the websites I’ve created with this engine:

GoWildchild (with licensing)

Guild of BoB (WoW guild)

My WoW page through WordPress

RealIdent (for YubiKey support)

ArtistPlug.ME (preliminary reviewing & promotion platform)

Dreamdisk (file hosting)

The name wasn’t always VisualMIX; it used to be VisualDreams; and had the unpublicised name VisualART, which was merely an audio/visual file manager with support for easy uploads and userfriendly (or SEO friendly) url’s. I needed a system myself which was able to get a load of files while processing them automatically towards my website. It’s support for that many file-formats and features is more a fanatic rage of programming and sleepless hours. Either I could be lying in bed staying awake or be productive and fix some (more) code …

You could think about it as the “new-age filesystem”, maybe a File-Content Management System, to stay with the buzzwords. It can be tweaked to the maximum and it supports dozens of graphics formats which are converted real-time after upload. Last development includes a licensing system which is backed up by the JW-Flash player and heavy CPAN module support. A wordpress module is available with direct support towards the VisualDreams engine, straight from the programmer.

If you thought that was all? Nah, it has a very extensive form engine which hides the e-mail of the recipient, a doc & xml-to web reader and extensive password modules supporting both tickets and (encrypted) logins. Multi-language support, SEO friendly links, rss feed & podcast is available at the fingertips for anyone around. Upload your file and it’s on-line, it couldn’t be easier than that!

There are no real storage limits because each file is a seperate object without the database overhead. It’s based on open-source, Linux, Apache and Perl. FTP, Webdav and a scarce web frontend are currently the only supported protocols to get files uploaded; although this will be changed as the front-end is not so important to keep a VisualDreams engine disk managed; it would just relax the user with it’s many supported (and undocumented) options.

It’s development in the mind is 24/7/365; features are getting added 24/7 while speed and security cannot be comprimised. Some of the upcoming features will be:

Front-end management interface;
Automatic conversion of .MOV/.AVI & other large formats to Flash;
Feeds for all files supported by the VisualDreams engine;
SoundCloud Widget & API support;
Add static-website support for super-cachine;
Seamless integration towards the ArtistPlug.ME network (including ArtistBLOG.ME);
Template Widget Support;
Plug-in and Yubikey support;
release of parts towards the oss world;
…. and it won’t stop here!

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VisualMIX Engine