Re: [ros-dev] I have a lot of Questions

[Ged Murphy]

Hi Ian,

 

Your help would be very much welcome and appreciated. 

You've actually come at a very good time. Our whole backend, known as RosCMS
has just been rewritten and is now at version 4.  It's a content management
system similar to Joomla, but written to better serve the needs of this
project.

Whilst the backend is now running and stable, the frontend needs a complete
rewrite. We had a design contest a few months ago and this was the winning
design :  http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/7833/reactoswebsitedesign4.png

 

So far no one has had the time to make a start on it, so we're still running
on the now outdated site. What we need is for someone to get involved in
bringing this new layout to life.

 

It's probably best if you join the IRC channel and chat to our web designer.
He's called Danny and he goes by the nick of DangerGround in IRC. He should
be able to give you more info and guidance on what is required.

 

I'm posting this mail to the ros-dev mailing list so he and our other web
guys can pick it up.

You can continue to converse with me via private mail if you prefer to.

 

Regards,

Ged Murphy.

 

 

From: Ian Hilton [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: 04 June 2010 02:13
To: dev-interest(a)reactos.org
Subject: I have a lot of Questions

 

       Hi My name is Ian Joseph Hilton I am a freshman in community college.
I consider myself a website developer of sorts in training, and for the past
year or so been familiarizing myself with website coding. I have been mostly
using Google based programs as my platform, and have so far just barely
stuck my toe in the water in attempting to write extensions for Google's
chrome browser. My main project is what I call Titanways Teaching (or
Tutoring) In Terrific And New ways and was my High school Exhibition project
required by the state of California to graduate, and it has got moderate
attention. the link is here : http://sites.google.com/site/titanwayssite/

 

     I know what you must be thinking by now most likely that I have lack of
what you need and as my Uncle who currently writes programs for Medical
Equipment says I need at least two years or so to be taken seriously and not
laughed, but it never hurts to ask some things and worst comes to worse I
learn some things to point me in new directions which is always great. 

 

     Anyway I of course have been aware of your ReactOS  project for a few
years and only recently has it occurred to me that I should inquire
somethings regarding it. Note I have not been "Tainted" at all as whatever
you are talking about with Microsoft's source code totally goes over my
head.  I do use XP as my operating system However on a Toshiba NB 305
net-book. This is because a lot of my programs I am satisfied with run on
this operating system. My point to that is my net-book has further taught me
terms like debugging as not every program will run on it without a little
help by doing various things like editing a config file to fit its 1024x600
resolution frame.  I has also used Linux Ubuntu and am familiar with
Macintosh interface via that is the main platform students use at general
educational institutions. 

 

     Now to get right to the point, right now I might not know much but if
there is anyway in the future that I may offer assistance in any form I
would be happy to, and also any helpful training or guidance you can point
me in in regards to coding website components for ReactOS would be even
better. I use mostly opensource alternatives to windows programs anyway such
as Open Office.org as I kinda share that feeling with you that Microsoft
kinda took a monopolistic view to its commercial applications.

 

        I wish to ask how compatible is it currently with opensource apps
that run on Java platforms if it is integrated with as well as the web
browsers that it is compatible with? I have been familiarizing myself with
all three of the basic website rendering engines Trident, Gecko, and Web-kit
via the experimental triple engine browser being developed by a Japanese
software Company and is known as Lunascape. I also want to know if this OS
can support docking software such as Object dock or Rocket-dock and if not
what would I say need to do to learn how to make that kind of thing a
possibility. I will conclude by saying once again right now you may view me
as inexperienced but that I am quickly learning and any pointers I take
gratefully and with interest in consideration. 

 

High Regards to you, Ian 

 

P.S. will be taking Computer Classes in future semesters however it is my
opinion that the best in the field should try to learn from scratch ,and so
I am going to start by attempting to teach myself to write programs in C/C++
coding and see where that leads