Posts tagged open source
CTask-Lite on GitHub
Jul 2nd
Alright, I’ve finally put my open-source project website woes to rest. I successfully published the first version of CTask-Lite out on GitHub. It can be found here: http://github.com/cdunlap/ctask-lite
CTask-Lite is an easy to install, configure, theme, and use task management system. It is aimed at tiny teams working on ‘open’ projects. What I mean by open is that they don’t care who sees what (because there is no user/role management capability in it).
The Wiki for CTask-Lite is here: http://wiki.github.com/cdunlap/ctask-lite
Spread the word! Download it, use it, mangle it, hack it, fork it, etc.
Why is open source project hosting annoying and not playing nice with me?
Jul 2nd
I wrote a neat little web-based task system in PHP, jQuery, and SQLite last night and wanted a place to put it so I could give it to the world (and maintain my source code).
I checked out Google code, where I have placed several projects of mine. I successfully created a project, but when I’d try to check in the code, the SVN server wasn’t available. At the same time, I’d try to click the “Source” tab on the project that I just created and I’d get an HTTP 500 from Google (which is incredibly rare). So I marked that project for deletion from Google Code.
Then I went over to Source Forge. Source Forge is having issues. I couldn’t get their site to load at the time that I tried, again, HTTP 500 errors. Though I did get an email from them a few days ago saying they were going to be pushing a new UI to their site soon. The email said the service interruptions were only going to be for a few minutes at the most. Lets just say it was more than a few minutes, so I scrapped that idea.
Then I remembered a guy at work recommended GitHub. I’m really new to Git and so far I don’t like it. I find it more difficult to use than SVN–though it is faster by far. So I get the code put up on GitHub just fine, but now I can’t edit the repository details in the admin area. Every time I try to change the project website or description it responds with “Name is already taken”. Ok, minor annoyance. Ignoring that, I went over to the downloads area to upload my ZIP containing the final v1.0 build of the project. It gets 100% done and then I get a HTTP 500 from GitHub. I try to go back to the project page but now I’m getting a HTTP 500 error anytime I try to do anything with my project. Not all of GitHub… my project page. I seem to be the only one affected by this.
So, I’m a bit frustrated at the moment. I guess I’ll start working on one of my closed-source projects and call it a night.
KnowIT RC2.1 Released
May 18th
I’ve completed the modifications and package builds for KnowIT releast candidate 2.1. They are available from the KnowIT Google Code site. Dare I say, this is one of the best peices of software I have written in a long time. And the best part is, its open source!
Check out the Screenshots.
KnowIT works with Windows ONLY. There is currently not a Linux/UNIX scanner available for KnowIT, and the database back-end is a Microsoft product (MSSQL 2005). However, I did add ODBC support this time around, so it may work on other database types as well. If anybody gets it to work on MySQL or Oracle, let me know.
VGL Math – 2D/3D Video Game Math Library
Mar 25th
I decided to get bold and start another open source project. This time it is related to the math involved in developing 2D and 3D video games. The project is hosted at http://code.google.com/p/vglmath. I decided to deem it a “VGL community project”; VGL being the company I founded a few months ago.
I’m looking for any pointers, contributors, or experts to make improvements or recommendations to the code. So please check it out. If you’re interested in contributing, please send me an email at cale@caledunlap.com so I can add your Google account to the members list.
And if you haven’t already, check out http://www.venomgamelabs.com!
KnowIT Releases First Version
Dec 17th
Ok, so even though I didn’t get ALL of the bugs hammered out in KnowIT, I released a preliminary version of it over at Google Code. It hasn’t been reviewed yet by anybody, and I even have yet to install it from the installers I built, so I’m honestly not even sure if it will work. But regardless, I’ve tagged it as a release in SVN and I’ll probably be continuing to make improvements and modifications to it here and there. I just wanted it to get out the door so I could stop having that monkey on my back. Monkeys get heavy after a while.
