Have you considered opensourcing the js portion of DamnIt?

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Jeremy W

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Sep 2, 2009, 12:59:44 PM9/2/09
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I know your service offers little extras like grouping repeats, but if
your motives are as altruistic as you say in
http://groups.google.com/group/damn-it/browse_thread/thread/4b8c6cc7285c9bca
then why not make the JS portion open source and let everyone
(including yourself) benefit from lots of developers using it. I know
I won't be using your service just because of the fact that my source
is sent to and saved on your servers. But I would love to use the JS
portion and send the info to my own webservice.

Justin Meyer

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Sep 2, 2009, 2:53:22 PM9/2/09
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Honestly, I don't understand people who come to DamnIT, a free service, and then have an accusatory tone.  It's even more frustrating when they are wrong.  Not that we have to, but we've open sourced practically everything piece of code we've worked on:

JavaScriptMVC
Jabbify
EmbeddedJS
F->IT

From the very beginning, we've open sourced the client portion of DamnIT.  It's always been provided in JavaScriptMVC.  

We've also made plans to open source DamnIT completely, but I'd rather not share it with acusatory poo poo heads.

Jeremy W

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Sep 2, 2009, 3:12:35 PM9/2/09
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Sorry you read that with a certain tone, there wasn't any negative
tone intended, not sure what you thought I was accusing you of. All I
was saying is that you have a client side script that lots of people
like me would love to use. You have to understand that most people are
going to be uncomfortable with a system that says they store your
source html. So I apologize if you thought I was accusing you of
something, I certainly didn't intend to sound that way.

As far as the source of DamnIT, I've grepped high and low and can't
find the ApplicationError methods in the MVC source.
Where in JavaScriptMVC is the noncrunched version of
https://damnit.jupiterit.com/damnit.js

p.s. your defensive and insulting responses aren't going to buy you
fans from skeptics, especially when the original message contained
nothing offensive

On Sep 2, 11:53 am, Justin Meyer <justinbme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Honestly, I don't understand people who come to DamnIT, a free service, and
> then have an accusatory tone.  It's even more frustrating when they are
> wrong.  Not that we have to, but we've open sourced practically everything
> piece of code we've worked on:
>
> JavaScriptMVC
> Jabbify
> EmbeddedJS
> F->IT
>
> From the very beginning, we've open sourced the client portion of DamnIT.
>  It's always been provided in JavaScriptMVC.
>
> We've also made plans to open source DamnIT completely, but I'd rather not
> share it with acusatory poo poo heads.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Jeremy W <jrw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I know your service offers little extras like grouping repeats, but if
> > your motives are as altruistic as you say in
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/damn-it/browse_thread/thread/4b8c6cc72...

Justin Meyer

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Sep 2, 2009, 3:30:29 PM9/2/09
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I appologize if I misread "but if your motives are as altruistic as you say in ...", implying that my motives are not altruistic if I don't share the source code.  It would also be implying, in the context of the referenced post, that I am nefariously trying to steal people's data, giving credence to that post.

Perhaps I didn't give you a fair chance.  But after a few years of this, I've seen enough people accusing me of ill motives for simply sharing source or sharing projects for free.  I've learned that they are not worth trying to make fans.

You can find the code in JMVC 1.5's error plugin.  2.0 doesn't have it built in yet.


but it is not a stand alone script.
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