From: David Mark on 19 Mar 2010 14:33 Ivan S wrote: > On Mar 19, 5:07 pm, David Mark <dmark.cins...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> It's all ASP/VBS, so I don't know how many people would really be interested in it. > > I think it won't be a problem to port it to PHP. :) Ivan, if you want to do it, you know I'll help out. I agree it probably wouldn't be too hard. The back-end is a bit of a piffle.
From: David Mark on 19 Mar 2010 14:42 Thomas Allen wrote: > On Mar 19, 12:41 pm, Ivan S <ivan.sku...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mar 19, 5:07 pm, David Mark <dmark.cins...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> It's all ASP/VBS, so I don't know how many people would really be interested in it. >> I think it won't be a problem to port it to PHP. :) > > Probably Python or Perl, as they're distributed with most Unix OS' > these days. Yeah, I did a bunch of Puthon on my last contract (much to my chagrin). Why they wanted to pay _me_ to write Python when there plenty of front-end needs to address was mystifying. But hey, it's all good. :) And I didn't half-mind Python after I spent about a week getting up to speed with it (see what I mean about mystifying?) Hey, I told them; but the customer is always right. > And this is what I mean about open-sourcing: It will allow > others to make the software more accessible, I didn't figure there would be much clamoring about the back-end. But whatever people want to do. Here are some other areas where I would like contributions:- 1. A logo (the one thing I don't do is artwork). 2. Anything to do with documentation would be great. Though I realize that most of that is on me at the moment as there aren't enough people deeply into it yet. 3. Testing and bug reporting (there are definitely bugs, perhaps even some I don't know about). Also, writing unit tests (those are very easy to do--see the test page). 4. Forum participation--need to demonstrate that there is a burgeoning community to generate adoption momentum. Post examples of what you are working on... > and to meet needs the > original author didn't anticipate (OK, that's enough RMS for now). > Root mean square?
From: Thomas Allen on 19 Mar 2010 14:50 On Mar 19, 2:42 pm, David Mark <dmark.cins...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Root mean square? At the risk of having no sense of humor, RMS is a common abbreviation for Richard Matthew Stallman, founder of the GNU project and all- around FOSS (free, open-source-software) fanatic. Thomas
From: David Mark on 19 Mar 2010 14:51 Thomas Allen wrote: > On Mar 19, 2:42 pm, David Mark <dmark.cins...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Root mean square? > > At the risk of having no sense of humor, RMS is a common abbreviation > for Richard Matthew Stallman, founder of the GNU project and all- > around FOSS (free, open-source-software) fanatic. > No worries, Thomas; I don't know him from Richard Dean Anderson. :)
From: Ivan S on 21 Mar 2010 07:33
On Mar 19, 7:33 pm, David Mark <dmark.cins...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Ivan, if you want to do it, you know I'll help out. Yes, sure, but I don't have time until middle of April. If people show some interest, I can to it then. > The back-end is a bit of piffle. I agree. But maybe there are use cases where people would find it useful. |