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Friday, May 25, 2007

Experts-Exchange

Soon, I will be posting some questions on Experts-Exchange.com (not Expert Sex Change, they had to change their domain because it used to be expertsexchange.com).

My dad has a premium account there that I can use, so I will be able to ask any question I want about XPCOM, firefox extensions, C++ etc, and hopefully that will help BitFox get started.

Experts-Exchange normally has people that are willing to help (I believe it is possible to swap points for money, but I can't be sure, I just ask the questions), and a lot of experts within different fields.

Friday, May 18, 2007

What is going on with BitFox

For those that want to know what is going on with BitFox, and when a release will be out.

I am only new to developing. I am a Year 10 student in Australia learning Pyton (at school) and C++ (self taught) etc, and I have done programming a lot of my life, as my dad is a programmer himself.

I wanted to start working on Firefox extensions. So I thought I would make something that I have wanted for a long time. A bittorrent client within FireFox.

I didn't really know how I would do it, but from what I had read, it probably was possible.

So I went to Google Code and made a project for that, and called it BitFox. I didn't know how long it would take. The idea behind it was that I could work on it over a long period of time. I didn't even know if it would work. The reason I made the Google Code page was to see if there is any one else interested in helping with the project on a programming side, and to be able to track all the changes myself.

I have to say, I didn't expect this article to appear on Digg, among other websites. This sort of motivated me to rush the project, and since I didn't know what I was doing, there was no way I was going to get anywhere.

This project really isn't going to get anywhere in the near future, but I will slowly work on it. If anyone else is interested in joining, it will get this done faster, but I do hope to get it done, but I can't really give a time of when it will be done.

The bottom line is: I don't want to be known as a developer who starts projects and doesn't finish them. I don't want a new prject I have started going around the web and one or two people saying "That is by JoshHendo that is never going to be finished.". BitFox is currently a bit to advance for me, and I do want to finish it as much as everyone else wants me to finish it.