Help with worthy project ?

[GHBoom]

Hello,
Im writing a program, for Filezilla brute force detection,
and man just found a bug I introduced way back....

I was wondering if anyone here would be interested in helping
me clean it up, and help me get it ready to use strict ?

In general, there is more then one way to do it in perl, I guess I
did it my way, at the very least, 90% is readable and easy to digest.

If your interested, What I would like to do first is,
Clean it up...
for example as the script evolved
I used at one point @here=sort(@there)
looking at it many many changes later, Im left ondering why I just
didnt
sort(@there) and be done with it !

Anyway, if you would like to contribute to an open source project
that may just take off, please let me know ;-)

GHBoom

 

[Jürgen Exner]

for example as the script evolved
I used at one point @here=sort(@there)
looking at it many many changes later, Im left ondering why I just
didnt
sort(@there) and be done with it !

Maybe because you wanted to _use_ the sorted result and not compute it and
then ignore it?

jue

 

[GHBoom]

Maybe because you wanted to _use_ the sorted result and not compute it and
then ignore it?

jue

Your probably right I may have had plans for it, but they have been
long forgoten !!!

So, that code made it through umpteen revisions

I need someone who,
knows perl more then I,
has a fresh set of eyes,
willing to help me add some functions that I would love to see,
basicly, help me take it from looked like a newb wrote it to
wow ! this newb and others did a fine job !

Its a project, no doubt about it. I can search and read
all day for info, but some of this is
needs a person with a good solid foundation...

GHBoom

 

[krakle]

I need someone who,
knows perl more then I,
has a fresh set of eyes,
willing to help me add some functions that I would love to see,
basicly, help me take it from looked like a newb wrote it to
wow ! this newb and others did a fine job !

Its a project, no doubt about it. I can search and read
all day for info, but some of this is
needs a person with a good solid foundation...

GHBoom

Why would anyone want to do your project for you for free? You mention
it *may* take off... No it won't. It won't because it looks "like a
newb wrote it". If you don't know Perl well enough to write effecient
programs than your project isn't even sufficient. With that said, Learn
the language and do it yourself or pay someone... In any case, this
isn't the place for it...

 

[Juha Laiho]

Hello,
Im writing a program, for Filezilla brute force detection,
and man just found a bug I introduced way back....

I was wondering if anyone here would be interested in helping
me clean it up, and help me get it ready to use strict ?

How about getting the project up onto one of the open source
repositories, such as SourceForge?

Of course, SourceForge doesn't automatically bring you any
developers, but it forms a communication channel, and also
provides the code up for anyone to see and comment upon.

Also, once when you find the co-developers whom you trust,
with SF you can grant them the rights to directly modify
the code base (and the change history is maintained there,
so it's possible also to revert back to any former version).
Depending on the quality of change comments, it'd also help
yuo to remember why something was done the way it was.

 

[GHBoom]

Juha,
It is a sourceforge project

I understand about getting trust worthy delvelopers.

I had one reply to the help wanted post, but unfortunatly
it looks like the guy wanted to code without talking ;(

Anyway my project is at,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fzbfd/

 

[John W. Krahn]

Juha,
It is a sourceforge project

I understand about getting trust worthy delvelopers.

I had one reply to the help wanted post, but unfortunatly
it looks like the guy wanted to code without talking ;(

Anyway my project is at,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fzbfd/

I suggest the first thing you do is to compile your code with warnings enabled
and fix all the warnings that appear (I got 17 when I did it.) And after that
compile your code with warnings *AND* strict enabled and when it finally
compiles without producing any messages from warnings and strict then you may
find people taking your request more seriously.


John

 

[GHBoom]

I suggest the first thing you do is to compile your code with warnings enabled
and fix all the warnings that appear (I got 17 when I did it.) And after that
compile your code with warnings *AND* strict enabled and when it finally
compiles without producing any messages from warnings and strict then you may
find people taking your request more seriously.


John

John
Thanks for the suggestions, but whether to take this seriously
or not should have nothing to do with what i wrote now. Im not a full
time programer,
I try as much as I can, I try to learn more every day,
I also know my limitations.

This is the reason why im looking for help in the first place....

Have a great day.
GHBoom

 

[Tad McClellan]

[ snip .sig, quoting .sigs is bad netiquette you know. ]

John

Please put a proper attribution up at the top like everybody else does.

Displaying multiple points of poor netiquette will not inspire
net-savvy folks to take you seriously.

Thanks for the suggestions, but whether to take this seriously
or not should have nothing to do with what i wrote now. Im not a full
time programer,

But the people you are trying to attract *are* programmers, so
being mindful of what they think is essential to attracting them.

Code that is not warnings and strict clean will not be taken
seriously by the type of people you need to reach.

This is the reason why im looking for help in the first place....

You have about a 0.1% chance of getting that help as things
stand currently.

You'd increase your chances at least a hundredfold if it was
warnings/strict clean. You decide.