Bounties (Earn $$)

[TkTech]

Hey guys!

As I browse through sites, working on my libraries and other projects, I constantly come across the novel idea of bounties. That is, a user or group puts forward a reward as intensive to complete a project. So, that gets me thinking, why not apply that same idea to CodeCall?

Heres the outline.

Users are free to post a request in this thread, and are free to also offer their own bounty to supplement my own. I will review your idea, and tag it with a bounty that I deem reasonable. A user is free to claim a project - that is, only they can collect the bounty, if the following is met:

• The user has been on codecall for at least 1 month.
• The user has at least 50 posts.
• The user keeps myself and the sponser notifed of their progress, or risk losing their claim.

A user is free to mark their project as Open-For-All where it cannot be exclusively claimed.

Project types can be, at the moment:

• A tutorial
• An open-source project exclusive to codecall
• a tool for codecall
• A tech-related article
• Code snippet or complete program

All potential projects should be posted with this template:

Project Type: {One of the above types}
Project Language: {If it applies. Ex: C++}
Claimable: {Yes/No. Can a proven member claim this project exclusively.}
Sponsor Donation: {Can be N/A or anything from cash to hosting, or a t-shirt, ect...}
Description: {explains itself}

Your project will then be approved and added to the list below, and I will add how much I will put forward. Any project I support will have between $5 and $100 added to the pot!

---------------=Open Projects=-------------
Bounty 1 by user Jordan - Additional pot $10 USD
Bounty 2 by user Jordan
---------------=Completed Projects=-------------

[WingedPanther]

Cool idea! Do we have anything available from CodeCall itself?

[Jordan]

Not a bad idea at all! We can muster up several projects for CodeCall.

[Jordan]

I have a bounty for anyone. I've been working on it myself via a new skin but I figure out put it out to everyone.

Project Type: A tool for codecall (enhancement actually but this was not in the list).
Project Language: HTML/CSS
Claimable: Yes
Sponsor Donation: (CodeCall T-Shirt) or ($10 via paypal and 20 +rep).

Description: The webpage loads extremely slow. We need it optmized! What accounts for most of the speed decrease is the JavaScript login bar at the top. It uses the mootools library and is horrible. What I want:

1. The logon tab/bar (at the top) needs to be static (this is easy, you just need to wrap a div class around it and remove the search div tags) - basically I do not want it to change when you click the search button. You can make the text between static, I'll edit that.
2. Remove the Login/Search buttons at the top. Where they are replace it with the search bar using CSS.
3. Optimize the page in any other way (remove more JS if possible - needed JavaScript is vbulletin scripts only). I want it suitable for dial-up users. We already have gzip compression enable so don't suggest that.
4. This is important - something I have never done (but needed to) - make the page XHTML Compliant. Use this as a validator: The W3C Markup Validation Service

How do you get the source (FireFox):

1. Goto http://forum.codecall.net
2. Click on File in the file menu
3. Select "Save Page As"
4. Save it somewhere locally on your computer for editing.

Optionally you can press ctrl+s OR save the source (View/View Page Source) and leave the content static (all links/images and JavaScript pointing to CodeCall).

Send me the page. If you exclusivly accept this project you have 1 week to complete. After a week I will open it back to other members.

[WingedPanther]

Out of curiosity, have you gotten many complaints about load speed? I don't have anything I would consider significant issues from home.

[Jordan]

Just from phpforfun. Everything seems fine at home for me as well, however, I would still like to remove any JavaScript. Once this bounty is complete I believe I'll post a new one for making the size dynamic and using 90%+ of the width available.

[morefood2001]

I will take care of the validation for you if no one else does by a few weeks just for the +rep. I'm swampped with work this week and probably next, so I can't commit right now. If I don't see anyone else do it when I get the time, I will go ahead and do it and then post it finished, and if someone else beats me, its still a good training exercise for me so I won't mind.

Therefore, don't count me in, but I will get to it someday if someone else doesn't

Also, I think its nuts that you want to go through line by line on the page source to edit the home page when its dynamically generated, but its your choice

[TkTech]

vBulletin's template engine is powerful, but a piece of crap for readable code.

[Jordan]

Ok, so that bounty is busted. Lets try something else.

Project Type: Blogging for CodeCall (to help meet our current goal)
Project Language: Any Programming Ideas or Language
Claimable: No
Sponsor Donation: CodeCall Mug (See image below)

Description:
I will send a CodeCall Coffee Mug to the first person to write 10 blogs about programming with more than 300 words from this date forward. As soon as you write the 10 programming blogs your coffee mug will be shipped meaning you will not need to wait in line before anyone else and the reward is instant. Anyone can join and attempt to win.

[WingedPanther]

Sounds like fun! I may have to do some general thoughts on coding, as opposed to/in addition to the tutorials I've been getting addicted to writing.