I've only got 3 projects using this right now, but I'll be sure to add
more now that it's so easy to add them!!!
http://elfdata.com/rb
About:
Have you ever had a simple project you wanted to make available to the
internet? Perhaps it was a demo, or some cool code you contributed.
You couldn't be bothered to go through all the effort of putting it on sourceforge.com
and going through their awkward upload system (at least it used to
be). You COULD just hack up an HTML page, but they are annoying to
modify all the time each time you update your project. All you really
want to do, is upload the goddamn thing to the internet, and let
people download it!
Well, "ElfData Project Lister" acheives this. It makes it as simple as
possible to upload a project. You just upload it over FTP, and it
should be automatically listed. The only "special thing" you need to
do, is put it in a sub folder, and add an "about.txt" file next to the
file. This is because there isn't really any way of attaching a "help
file" as a file's metadata that can be read over the file system. So
an "about.txt" is about as simple as it gets.
Oh, there is also optional support for pictures. Just dump pictures in
the sub folder, and they'll be listed along side.
It dates stuff automatically. You can even have multiple download
files in one project folder! Just dump the files in there and they'll
be found!
It also takes care of sub-directories, in case you want to organise
your projects. And it takes care of spaces in the names, in case you
want a more readable listing.
The file structure needs to be like this:
/<myprojects>/index.php
/<myprojects>/space mining game
/<myprojects>/space mining game/space_game_source.zip
/<myprojects>/space mining game/about.txt
/<myprojects>/space mining game/burning_asteroids1.png
/<myprojects>/space mining game/burning_asteroids2.png
/<myprojects>/super text mangler/
/<myprojects>/super text mangler/codev1.zip
/<myprojects>/super text mangler/codev2.zip
/<myprojects>/super text mangler/about.txt
Sub projects would be like this:
/<myprojects>/utils/counter/code.zip
/<myprojects>/utils/counter/about.txt
/<myprojects>/utils/reverse/code.zip
/<myprojects>/utils/reverse/about.txt
Oh, and finally, it has a cool little feature to let you download the
file's own source code! A totally self-contained little package!
Initially designed for RB projects and RB coders, although in theory
it should be useful for any little project that all you want to do is
stick it on the web with the minimum of hassle.
RB Project Web Lister: An HTML maintainance free, simple but powerful
way to put your coding projects on the web.
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