My first sourceforge project!

[Whiteknight]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/orb/

I joined Project ORB on sourceforge, and because the original author is so busy, he made me project manager right off the get-go.

perhaps it was a bad move on his part, but i'm really psyched about the opportunity.

I'll let you guys know how it works out!

[kryptech.net]

Let me get this straight an HTML preprocessor is like SSI or PHP right.

[Whiteknight]

no, not exactly. you use the html preprocessor the first time you are writting a site. you make html pages, but include special orb tags--which are basically short hand for other things, like links on your pages or whatnot.

you also have a header file that defines what all your tags are. for instance, if you have a link to a certain site on all of your pages, and the link changes, normally you have to go through each page and rewrite the link, but with orb you simple change the header file and "recompile" your page.

it doesnt do dynamic content, but it does make web design alot easier, by speeding up the process. also, it is very usefull in the production of very large sites, where multiple pages have common content, or things of that nature.

you only run orb once, to "compile" your page into working html, and after that, you need to find other methods of dynamic content.

[kryptech.net]

hey how far are you on orb?

[Whiteknight]

haha, its going so slowly, i have so little time. plus I'm away from my computer for the better part of the week (vacation) and such.

[kryptech.net]

why not try switching to python instead of C++?

[zachogden]

Hate to dig up an old thread from the dead (yeah, it rhymes), but what ever happened to the ORB?

[Whiteknight]

With school and the like, i simply havent had time to work on this project. I sent the project leader an email saying that i wasnt able to maintain my responsibilities on the project, and he never responded.

That, and I personally have no use for the program itself, so the interest on my part decreased steadily. It's hard to write a program that you dont use. I certainly can imagine possible uses for it, but none of them work for me.

[zachogden]

Also, with other, more mature preprocessors such as PHP out there, why would you want to make another?

[MidnightViper]

Originally posted by zachogden
Also, with other, more mature preprocessors such as PHP out there, why would you want to make another?

The same reason anyone does it. To learn more about the language, to learn more about programming fundamentals, and just to have your own instead of using someone else's. That's the reason I wrote my own news posting system, instead of using PHPNuke.

The biggest factor is the "just to do it" one though.