I don't know Nao so much,
I don't know you either
Sorry Nao. That's not what I meant. Of course I know you. I suppose I was thinking too much in Spanish when I wrote that yesterday (and the fact that I wrote it at 6 in the morning didn't help too much either). Reading it again in English today I see I choose the wrong words.
What I meant is that we haven't talked together in the same thread before or any other way (maybe "I never met you" instead of "I don't know you") but I have talked with Arantor a few times.
But of course I have seen your work and read the kind of code you write and I feel a lot of respect for you (as I feel for Arantor). I always respect the people who write code properly. (But only the ones who never stab other people's back
).
He never stopped commenting... You can follow him on arantor.org, Runic's forum, here, and even on sm.org -- under the name IncognitoMuse (it's not like it's a secret.)
Another thing I didn't know. Good to know. You see, I almost never enter the chit-chat forum or gossip sections in SMF. I'm always giving support (mainly of my mods, but also any other problems they ask me) but never talk with anybody of anything not related to code, bugs, spammers, etc. In fact that's how I found out yesterday about all that.
One guy told me he had a problem with Aeva Media and said he had asked in the support forum but got no answer. I told the guy I was not an Aeva specialist because I haven't needed yet a mod to add media to any forum, but I had always thought to download it anyway. Everybody talks very good about it, so if I ever need to add media I would use that solution. And even if I never need it I wanted anyway to read the code. I enjoy reading good code and normally learn a lot from it. I told the guy to give me a few hours to download the mod and read it a little.
So I went
here, started reading, followed some links, went to
here,
here and a few more. After reading all that, I was already in shock. My first thought was: "Hold on a second. Am I then one of the few stupid ones here doing it for ideals instead of for money, power or what ever other reasons? What the heck am I doing here then?". And also thought then that was the reason why I haven't been seeing lately Arantor around and a few others that I used to enjoy talking with every now and then.
When Arantor left I read that he was resigning for "personal reasons". Didn't understand it then, but I know the truth now.
Next thought I had: "If this people are out of here they must be doing something somewhere else and it must be good, so I started googleing a little and found also
this one,
this one and this page we are just now.
When I started with this guy's problem with Aeva it was like 10 in the night. By the time I finished reading all that hundreds of pages it was already 6 in the morning and that's when I wrote that post.
It looks like I have been missing a lot lately. I didn't even know Jeff Lewis was out of SMF.
Happened years ago...
Reading Jeff's site I had the impression that happened last January but, as I said, I read hundreds of pages yesterday (and some of them too quickly) so I must have been mistaken.
Anyway, now that I know where to find you we will be in touch. And of course, anything you need from me it's yours. My servers are not dedicated (all shared) but I control a few. My skills programming are not as big as yours (I know) but I don't think I'm a bad coder (at least I know a little about fighting spammers ) etc. Any help you need, just ask.
Thanks We don't need anything, though. Pete and I are more than happy to discuss features with people on our private boards, but we're not currently sharing actual code.
Maybe I should have said it like that: "Of course I suppose you don't need anything, but
IF you ever need anything from me you only need to ask. I have very few to offer but anything I have is yours
IF you ever need it".
And "
IF you ever need beta-testers write my name on the list".
Of course I understand you cannot be sharing your code just now with everybody and you will do it only when you are ready.
Actually I read something from Arantor in one of the pages I read yesterday (don't remember which one) that I liked a lot because it's exactly the way I think:
Pete was saying you are doing this just for you (and because you like it) and if you share it it will be only because you want to.
That's exactly what I have been doing lately. When I started fighting spammers 3 years ago it was because they were attacking my forums, so I started writing anti-spammers mods for me (and also because I liked the challenge to see if I could code better than the spam-bot coders). If I have shared my work with everybody it's only because I wanted to, but I will never accept orders.
When somebody ask me for a new feature they think it MUST be inside any of my mods, the first thing I think is "Am I going to use this new feature?". If I see it's a good idea and I can use it I add it. If not, I put it in my list of "Things not too urgent to do whenever I have nothing else to do".
You know how I love to read a good piece of code.
You will, in time!
I can't wait to read it, but I will wait. (if you get what I mean)
One thing I am really sure: Whatever you do it's going to be good.