BortBot revisited. Free bort. Limit one.
From my blog: willricketts.com
IT’S TIME TO START OPEN SOURCING
I’ve always been a really big fan of the open source movement, but I’ve, for the most part, been a spectator. Lately, I’ve been becoming drawn to publishing open source projects to Github.
I’ve released one open source project, but it’s mostly useless and terribly written as it was a spontaneous project that was needed quickly, so it was rapidly built and terribly insecure. The security wasn’t really that big of a deal, due to it only being used internally. The application, which I called “BortBot,” is a PHP-based service order tracking system with customer management and admin features for a local computer store in the city I used to live in.
To illustrate exactly how poorly it was written, here’s code for the customer list page:
[Redacted. It’s on my blog.]
Yep. It’s that bad. Fortunately, quality wasn’t really a requisite of this project.
This being said, I still really enjoyed the act of tossing it up on Github for others to modify and redistribute, though I don’t know why anyone would in BortBot’s case. As soon as I committed the code, I decided that I needed to make open sourcing projects a thing that I do. Check my Github, and I might have some new projects ready for forking.
…thanks Brian!