First Project - Web Crawler

codeXplode is first, a place for hosting repositories. Without a good project to develop, it's hard to test all of codeXplode's functionality. So I've been thinking about what project I would like to work on. The project I've finally decided on is a web crawler.

First, though, what is a web crawler? It's a piece of software, usually used by search engines such as Google but are sometimes used as a standalone alternative to the big web based search engines.

Mine, though, will be aimed at pulling code. It's priority will be to find snippets of code, break them down, and index them in such a way that will allow for code to be easily searchable. This will ultimately be built into the codeXplode feature set at some point. It will allow for users to search for certain functions, instead of having to search for a specific file or project.

Hence, the project's name will be Code Crawler. I will post a link to the codeXplode page for the project once it is created.

Development - 3/17/12

This is the first in a series of posts that I will now try to do regularly. I will just post updates on what we've developed since the past post, and what we have planned for future development.

Currently, we have project profiles nearly complete. Users can view a project's profile, peek into the project's repository, comment on the project, check the status of current bugs or create a new bug, view available downloads for the project, and views members of the project. Also, we have our basic invitation system in place, as well as an about page.

Future development for the next week will involve us developing more into the bugs page for projects. That should keep us pretty busy for the upcoming week.