Welcome to Astroblahhh Desktop v2.4!

Organizer Software for Files, Ideas, and URLs

by Apollia of Astroblahhh.Com



Written in PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

Free (as in Freedom), Libre, and Open Source

Released under the GNU Affero General Public License.

Disclaimer: This software is provided free, libre, open source, as-is, without any warranty, etc. The entire risk as to the results and performance of this software is assumed by you. Sorry if anything bad happens.


This Readme last edited: Oct. 14, 2015, but most text was written on or before Sept. 20, 2015.


This is the only documentation which is somewhat updated, but even it is not complete, since this version of ABDesktop is already almost obsolete. I'm in the process of merging the stable ABDesktop v2.4 with my unreleased, incomplete other variants of ABDesktop, with PHP-GTK and console/command line capabilities.

So, I'm not very eager to write documentation for this old version.



Introduction

Astroblahhh Desktop, or ABDesktop for short, is a software package which, similar to software packages like WordPress or Drupal, is run with web server software, database software, and PHP. Astroblahhh Desktop can be accessed and used via any typical web browser.

However, unlike WordPress or Drupal, Astroblahhh Desktop is currently designed only for private use on your own computer while disconnected from the internet, rather than for use on a regular online web server.

Astroblahhh Desktop contains three organizers - one for files, one for URLs, and one for ideas (or any random text scraps).


I've been working on Astroblahhh Desktop off and on since maybe 2007. Or, at least 2007 was when I first noted down some ideas that I later incorporated into Astroblahhh Desktop.

I never tried very hard to promote ABDesktop or keep the publicly-released version up to date because ABDesktop's many shortcomings bothered me.

For example:

Despite all that, I rely on ABDesktop quite a lot myself, so it is definitely nowhere near abandoned.


Not-yet-finished and/or not-yet-released things I've been working on off and on since 2013 (or beyond) include:

Stuff below this point was probably mostly written before or in 2011.



Warnings

Since I am an amateur programmer who barely knows what I'm doing, I recommend not trusting this software. Please don't use it for anything really important or which has to definitely be private, safe, and secure.

Astroblahhh Desktop might also have other serious problems that I'm not yet aware of.



Platforms ABDesktop Works On

Astroblahhh Desktop can definitely run in Windows XP and the Lucid Puppy 5.2 variety of Puppy Linux, and could possibly at least partially work on other platforms (like MacOS, other Linuxes, etc.) too, though it might need to be modified to work properly on them.

There are only two set-ups that I've extensively used Astroblahhh Desktop with.

OSWeb Server Software PackageWeb Server SoftwareDatabase Software
Windows XP (Service Pack 2)XAMPPApacheMySQL
The Lucid Puppy 5.2 variety of Puppy Linux, run from a live DVD+RWLHMPHiawathaMariaDB, a variant of MySQL which is very compatible with MySQL

If you have a different set-up, or even if you don't, you should be very cautious about using Astroblahhh Desktop.

It might run on any platform which has PHP, some MySQL-compatible database software, and some web server software like Apache or Hiawatha - but as for whether it will work properly, that's uncertain, since it hasn't been tested on a wide variety of platforms.

Astroblahhh Desktop might partially work if uploaded to a typical online web server, but I strongly discourage you from doing that at all, because since Astroblahhh Desktop probably has security problems, and it's not designed to be used on the web or by more than one person.