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[JOKE] How about GNU/Podder? [/JOKE]Patrick wrote:So what are we calling this thing? I have a couple of suggestions:
Freepodder
Audiocatcher
Soundcatcher
Castcatcher
Castnet
What about something with "character". Since it's all about catching or casting, how about a fishing related name?Patrick wrote:So what are we calling this thing? I have a couple of suggestions:
Freepodder
Audiocatcher
Soundcatcher
Castcatcher
Castnet
Yes, I phrased that badly. What I meant was that a class should be a noun that represents an abstract concept. For example, "Schedule," or "Feed." Methods of those classes should be verbs/actions, like "Feed.download()" or whatever. A telltale sign that your hierarchy is not really OO is when you have classes that are actions, since that's going more towards procedural code. e.g. instead of having a FeedParser class that gets instantiated with an argument, and has a .go() method that returns a useful value, the class should be Feed, and the method should be Feed.parse(). At least, that's what they're teaching in school these days. =)Huh? Objects are instances of classes.
Yes, check earlier in this thread for it.So is there a CVS/SVN/darcs/whatever set up somewhere?
Dur? I thought we were going to call it FeedCatcher, is that no good? If not, the name should at least be somewhat indicative of what the app does. Also, I'd rather not put "pod" or "cast" in the title, since the uses of RSS feeds are outgrowing simple iPod syncing, not to mention that the internet radio show phenomenon predates the whole podcast movement. I don't especially care though, as long as people can figure out what it does and if they want it from the name.What should we call this/What about something with "character"
That's the most cogent explanation I've seen so far. Thanks, man, I'll be using that when I try to refactor my own little scraper.Spankminister wrote:Yes, I phrased that badly. What I meant was that a class should be a noun that represents an abstract concept. For example, "Schedule," or "Feed." Methods of those classes should be verbs/actions, like "Feed.download()" or whatever.
lol, I hadn't heard that, but it's certainly true (nesting control flow statements like ifs too deeply get really hard to understand-- best to transplant that stuff to its own function)Looking at the code, didn't Linus say that if you use more than three levels of indentation, you're screwed and need to fix your program?
I'm not yet sure what I think of that, but it does make it visually easy to tell where code blocks begin and end.Code blocks are defined by their indentation. By "code block", I mean functions, if statements, for loops, while loops, and so forth. Indenting starts a block and unindenting ends it. There are no explicit braces, brackets, or keywords. This means that whitespace is significant, and must be consistent.
Easy there. Lets leave it up for a couple of days. I'd like to see more than 4 votes either way.Spankminister wrote:Uhh, when are we going to close the polls? I don't really care which one wins, but I already went ahead and made subdomains on my site for one of them ^^;; I can redo it, but I just want to know when we can say we know for sure.
Sure, I'll give it until, let's say, the end of Friday. In the meantime, I'll see if I can get my dreamhost hosting to play nicely with Bugzilla, and experiment with phpbb to make a discussion forum for the software itself. It may seem like I'm rushing, but I think it's important to establish some sort of web presence for the project beyond this discussion thread. I am interested to hear everyone's input for the name, but I don't think having a cool name needs to be a major project goal, and I don't want it to hold up actual progress. In the long run, for this project to get the kind of base that CastPodder had, it needs to attract developers and users (i.e. testers), and I want to get that started right away.Easy there. Lets leave it up for a couple of days. I'd like to see more than 4 votes either way.
If we were just to pick a winner right now, at most, two people would be offended, which probably wouldn't split the internet in half.
