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Beaky is the main developer of the WACS web-based adult content server package, a free software product released under the GNU General Public License which runs under the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) environment.

WACS provides a fully featured web image set and video clip management solution tailored to the special needs of adult content. To find out more, please visit the sourceforge.net web site at:
wacsip.sourceforge.net

Commercial support offerings and custom programming services related to WACS are available from Bevtec Communications Ltd who are currently developing a commercial CRM (Customer Relationship Management) add on package for WACS. It is expected to be available soon.
25 Apr 2012: WACS 0.9.0 has finally been released. It's been a VERY long time coming with all the preparatory releases paving the way to this point. Basically the design work on the features in this release has been going on for THREE YEARS now. You just can't begin to imagine how glad I am to have that transition behind me. I'm exhausted and going to sleep now.

10 Jan 2012: OK, I've been silent for a while - sorry about that. WACS 0.9.0 is definitely taking shape. The new database-hosted attribute mechanism is in place and working. Trying to sort out the interlinking of related sets - I've got the two new API calls written and have updated genvideo and wacsindex to use and understand them. As of now the code in SVN pretty much works for videos, but isn't there for stills yet. Hopefully today I'll get a chance to add that code.

27 Sep 2011: WACS 0.8.6 has been released! Phew, now I can actually start doing stuff based on those new schema changes put in nearly TWO YEARS ago.

18 Sep 2011: The devil's in the detail! Still battling silly little permissions issues with the packaging for installation. Trying another build today...

2 Aug 2011: Documentation, Documentation, Documentation. That's been the flavour of the last couple of weeks. Not the best fun but pretty much essential for a large application suite like WACS. Still we're now in the home straight and should be hammering release candidates within the next week or so. Definitely aiming for an August 2011 release for Wacs 0.8.6 and still comfortably on target to achieve that. After that, it's on to WACS 0.9.0 and all the neat new features we have planned for that. I'm thinking of a little and often release process with 0.9.0 so that we get a few new features out each time and don't overload people trying to keep up.

10 Jul 2011: It's been over a year since the last blog entry and my life has changed beyond measure. But I'm still here, and just recently I've started work on another release of Wacs - 0.8.6 - which hopefully will be released shortly. This is not the big jump to 0.9 that was originally promised, but it does continue down that path. As well as just updating WACS to work on recent distributions of Linux, it also includes programs to ease the migration and build the infrastructure needed for the big changes coming in Wacs 0.9. Amongst these are the wacsschema program to update the database schemas to the new layout and fields and the new multi-talented XML reader/database preloader wacspop.
These are already available via the Subversion repository on sourceforge and will appear in the release itself.


older blog entries here...
SE - Sapphic Erotica
(lovely lesbian site, a firm favourite)
AMK - ATK Galleria
(aka amkingdom.com, a favourite)
ATKP - ATK Premium
(very high quality site from the same people as AMK)
ATE - ATK Exotics
(neat twist niche site, again from the ATK people)
KPC - Karup's PC
(great site, particularly good for European models)
KHA - Karup's Hometown Amateurs
(pretty good site, mostly US models)