SecuritySwitch Grows Up on Google Code

on February 5th, 2010 by Matt

Edit: Due to a trademark infringement, this open source project will now be named SecuritySwitch. What a huge PITA it was to migrate to a new project on Google Code! Since you cannot rename a project, I had to create a new one and move everything over to it. I so enjoyed blowing 2 hours of my day off on Good Friday.

I recently posted about an update to my WebPageSecurity module project to the newly named SecuritySwitch. One of the best ways to ramp up coding on the project again is to get it into a public code repository.

Get with Git?

I thought about using Git on GitHub, but I want to get moving on this and that would not be the case if I had to fumble through learning Git now. Although, I do really like the concept of a distributed version control system (DVCS). Instead, I will stick with Subversion (SVN) for now.

Google Code

That lands the project in the capable arms of Google Code, which I find to be a very nice new home for SecuritySwitch. I will likely have a dedicated page here on GeekFreeq for SecuritySwitch that refers visitors to the project on Google Code, and/or I will just pipe updates from the project site here via RSS.

Anyway, this is the first stage of a “grown-up” SecuritySwitch.

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Andrew says:

June 21, 2010 at 2:39 pm

Matt,
Someone is taking the credit of your hard work. Here is the link you should take a look (http://www.christopherthant.net/2009/07/secure-web-pages-and-directory-with.html).

Andrew

Matt says:

June 21, 2010 at 4:40 pm

Thanks for the link, Andrew! I guess it was only a matter of time. It would bug me more if he was providing the source code for download. In that case, the code base would unintentionally fork with separate communities, each not benefiting from the advancements of the other. That’s actually one of the main reasons I added this project to Google Code.

Really, the only thing that bugs me is it appears that he has taken claim to several ideas/code that are not his own. I’m less forgiving of my own hard work, as you put it, but several people’s hard work…come on!

Anyway, I’m contemplating on what to do it about it. Obviously, posting a comment on his blog (to go along with the sole comment he has now on one of the articles) will do no good.

Matt says:

June 21, 2010 at 5:01 pm

I commented on his blog about the article and download. He doesn’t moderate comments before posting them, so it’s up there for anyone to see. In fact, he shows recent comments on all pages, so you can even see it on his home page.

I guess we’ll see if he complies. He hasn’t posted an article on his site in almost a year. It’s as if the posts were for a summer class, project, or similar.

Thanks again for the heads-up!

- Andrew says:
  
  June 21, 2010 at 9:18 pm
  
  Matt,
  SHAME on him!!!! I hate people claiming others’ idea as their own. At least he should give a credit to the original owner who wrote the code. You did the right thing.
  
  Andrew

Julien Jacobs says:

April 21, 2010 at 8:54 am

The correct url for SecuritySwitch on Google Code is http://code.google.com/p/securityswitch/

BTW- I have also been using your module for years now and it simply does the job! Great work!

Matt says:

April 22, 2010 at 5:49 pm

Julien: Thanks for letting me know about that. I thought I changed everything when the name had to change. I’ve updated the post now. And, thanks for the comment about the module.

Scott Holodak says:

March 2, 2010 at 3:42 pm

I’ve been using your web security module for a few years now and appreciate the work. I’m wondering if you have any objections to my borrowing portions of your configuration-related code for another open source module I’m working on. I need to have the include/exclude paths & files features to prevent strange behavior during automatic redirects–pretty much the same type of things that you’re doing in the SecureWebPageModule. Also, I have a C# port of a recent CodeProject build if you’re interested. Any chance you can get in touch with me by e-mail?

Matt says:

March 2, 2010 at 5:10 pm

Scott,

Feel free to use any portion of the module code you need for your other project(s). (I replied directly via e-mail as well.)

Good luck!