Entry 184 - Boring Development Post - sL lives

Boring Development Post - sL lives

It’s been a long time since I got my dev on, but after a little prodding from good ol’ Wheatbread, we’ve decided to put Showlister, a project with truckloads of possibility, back on the road to fruition.

Yeap, I finally got my home network together enough to contribute more to the internet than snarky commentary and pictures of my feet.

Asshat Alert

It ain’t often in the open source community that you get to call out a fellow developer (being generous with that title there) for being a sneaky shit, but recently it was brought to my attention that one of the former team members on the Showlister project has decided to usurp the considerable audience sL has with his own meager and unstable offering. Nothing illegal, mind you – just a bit underhanded. It’s fairly obvious though, that the project's website ahem borrows liberally from this website, the latter being one that I spent weeks designing and coding. What an assclown. I’m just glad he never had access to the scripting.

Forgive me, Wheat, if you planned on roasting this guy on your blog, but after seeing that website… well, let’s just say I was inspired.

Anyway. On to the coding. Or the de-and-recoding. "He" was allowed into the sL project last year, and basically proceeded to take a dump on the codebase. This is what the to-do list looks like for the next few weeks:

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ShowLister – TODO.txt
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NEXT VERSION 1.0

#unfscking the codebase, round 3 (getting there)

#undoing freak2532’s changes

# unfsck user account settings editing

# Remove GET variable session handling and loggedout behavior is far too easily compromised and it looks like shit. All session variables should probably be passed via POST or COOKIE.

# Remove extranneous security level display. It is cluttery, and the premise is flimsy.

# protect the admin user so it can only be modified, never deleted.

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