At least a few times some of us have discussed an nverse customized, etc. etc. version of SpringSharp. I'd also like to be able to do springsharp on my iPad (darnit!).

This has led me to the conclusion that the world needs a webapp version of springsharp. Some of my opening assumptions and requirements for such a thing would be:

1. Based on SpringSharp3, but maybe with the still beta bits finished.
2. Pure web-application: I think a springsharp ipad or iphone or android or windows phone app would be cool too, but a webapp would be the quickest way to get on all those platforms, I think. This means it would essentially be written in javascript, and could be hosted anywhere (hopefully).
3. Could use cloud storage (ie something like box.net, etc.). This is mostly for platforms where webapps can't write to local storage, like iPads.
4. Could read existing SS3 and hopefully SS2 data files
5. Some intelligent handling of the stupid commas versus periods issue that exists in SS2 now.
6. A decent open-source license, of which there are number of choices with their own pluses or minuses

To pull this trick off, I think I'd need:
1. Help! :)
2. Some shared source code repository thing, probably github, because I like it.

And I'd really like at a minimum, the assent of the original authors, if not their source code, as completely reengineering the .net apps could be a real pain in the ass.

Anyone want to dive into this effort with me? Optimally, a team would include:

- someone friendly with the original authors
- someone who can read .net natively (assuming we have the source code)
- a javascript wizard
- someone with some design chops
- someone willing to crank out some documentation
- beta testers! the more the better.

I know that P3D was going to try to reach out to the original authors a while back. I don't know if that effort bore fruit however.

So, who's with me?

(and yes, I expect to cross post this in some form to the warships projects boards, maybe the warship1 boards, and who knows where else)

I'd be more than willing to help, but as of right now all I could do is Beta. Now, if all goes as the plan, by next summer/fall I should be able to read .Net sufficiently well and maybe even help w/ some of the Java.

Sounds like fun but I am not up to that level of coding.

Michael

Well I can help with the beta of such a thing for sure, but I have no experience in coding and no time to acquire any despite my wanting to . I may be able to find someone who is familiar with .net, but no promises.

As for the licensing bit, might I suggest Creative Commons?

Red Admiral, over on the WW board, has direct emails to the people who developed it; you might want to try him.

Quote from: TexanCowboy on February 01, 2011, 04:45:33 PM
Red Admiral, over on the WW board, has direct emails to the people who developed it; you might want to try him.

Yes, he was one of the 2.0 beta testers.

I'll be finishing my course in Java by summer, perhaps I can lend a spot of help. Learning .Net by summer may well be possible, but I reckon I might not have the time.

Interesting idea, haven't thought of that.
However,
I "don't like .net", and I can't read it. In fact, SpringSharp is the only reason my computer has .net in the first place.
Anyway, I wouldn't be so sure SpringSharp was written in .net -wouldn't that be c# anyway(?)- in the first place. For all I know it could have been done in any other Microsoft Visual Something.

By the way, I did think about "webapps" before (for my ballistic tool or the BBCode Table creator), but javascript -which I can't really program either- did not come to my mind, just php - a language I have only read about so far, but never got to the point were I actually used it to program something.

I should however be able to help creating some formulas, for example I "developed" something very nice and useful (at least in my opinion) to create smooth a graph out of a few data points for calculating air drag.


P.S.:
I'm not really into that "app" thing.
I would be very happy with a plain windows-.exe on my desktop.

I suck as a programmer, especially when taken away from my beloved C. However, if you need the help of a physicist to crank out mathematical models, I'm happy to offer my services.