Coding Recruitment/Volunteer Thread

[Queen Raidne]

Damnit Mahz, I'm doing this for you. Given how massive a task you've undertaken, this thread is for you to farm out simple (or complicated, depending on skill) bits of code you'd like somebody else to do. Don't burn out, please! Sidenote: feel free to edit this post to your heart's content.


Of course, if you think that you've got the task well in hand, you can always close this thread....

If you are volunteering to help, please state your experience level and what with. Myself, I've got passable skills in Java, but nothing else to really bring to the table.

[Captain Jordan]

Java, SQL, C++, HTML, CSS and a bit of PHP.

I'm a senior in college for Computer Science, so I have a good level of skill in the first three languages, with experience in the last three from about 10 years of building, tweaking and managing websites.

[Ex]

Java, XHTML/CSS, PHP, MySQL, some JavaScript, and Verilog (which I somehow doubt will come in handy). Also experienced with UNIX-like command line, Linux system administration, LAMP stack, BIND, etc. Also also some work with Photoshop,

Already offered my help to Mahz, but I know that the new Guild is running on a Clojure/Nginx stack that is not something I've got experience with. Still, no harm in re-mentioning the offer.

[snowblzr]

Some HTML. If you gave me a cheat sheet, though, I could make something slightly better. Also, scraps of python. (And yes, I know HTML isn't actually a coding language)

Dammit, at this rate the closest I'll get is unpaid intern for Mahz. I guess I should get back to learning.
Well, I'm not too sure why I put this up, but it never hurt to try.

Actually it does! UGH... can't... breathe... so much... blood... stoopid atte- ACK!

(EDIT: My brother is much better with code, here's his latest project if you're interested - Site about it - The game itself. The only problem is - is that he doesn't even know of this site, and is pretty busy with programming the game, but the offer is up, if any help is wanted (if my brother is willing) )

[Mahz]

I'm faking it til I make it over here.

My hipster stack is Clojure (lang) + Datomic (db) + Nginx.

I'm not sure how anyone could help, and I wouldn't share the code of such a fledgling production app.

If you run the Clojure gauntlet and want to help a month from now, I could probably think of something.

[Ex]

I guess I don't really see the issue with open-sourcing it, even this early in production. Why not? It can't hurt.

[snowblzr]

Ex said
I guess I don't really see the issue with open-sourcing it, even this early in production. Why not? It can't hurt.

snowblzr said
... but it never hurt to try.
Actually it does! UGH... can't... breathe... so much... blood... stoopid atte- ACK!

Mahz doesn't want to make the same mistake as me. (Or to attempt to see if it's true)

[Mahz]

Ex said
I guess I don't really see the issue with open-sourcing it, even this early in production. Why not? It can't hurt.

Getting the codebase to a state where I can open it up to other people and keep it open takes time and would slow me down right now.

[Tick]

Hey Mahz, what's causing the nesting issue?

[Mahz]

Tick said
Hey Mahz, what's causing the nesting issue?

I don't often work with regexp.

One issue is that if you want to parse "[tag][/tag] [tag][/tag]", then it seems reasonable to match the closest [/tag] for every [tag].

But what if it's nested? "[tag][tag][/tag][/tag]". Well, now the first [tag] is going to match the first [/tag] and break the nested tag.

When I have time, I will write a proper parser for BBCode without regexp. This is something I've done before: demo.

Nested quotes and hiders aren't even really on my priority list. But I do need to improve the quote button, roll out a preview feature, and add editor buttons so that people don't need to type it manually.