Comments on: Referrer Detector 2.1.1 and a little bit more

By: Jacob Share from Group Writing Projects

Jacob Share from Group Writing Projects — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:26:03 +0000

Phan,
I respect Thaya and will probably even use his plugin for now (I like the timeout feature). I also understand his frustrations but frankly- welcome to opensource. If he doesn’t like it, he shouldn’t do it. Even if you didn’t copy his code (which wouldn’t bother me as long as his license is respected), I don’t see any issue with being a better marketer and/or copying his new features. He of course can do the same back at you. Competing businesses play this game all the time, OSS just makes it much easier.

I think you’re being very cool about this situation and you sound upstanding. Good for you. Keep doing your thing.

By: phoenix.heart

phoenix.heart — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:55:46 +0000

Artem, thanks for your comment but I couldn’t agree
I stress again: apart from the initial concept, I didn’t “borrow” anything from Thaya, leave alone “from time to time”. I didn’t even read his code so I can promise, if you look into our code, you’ll find it hard to see anything in common. Well, in fact, as I looked into his code several days ago (the first time I did it), I even saw that he copied a large potion of JavaScript code and ideas from my own plugin.
Sure, you can go with WPGB and I’ll say it’s a good choice. But imho there’s no need for you to go frown upon me and my plugin.

By: Artem Russakovskii

Artem Russakovskii — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:34:09 +0000

It seems that while your project is different from Thaya’s, you borrow heavily against it. It’s OK to do it from time to time, considering it’s open source but such heavy borrowing is frowned upon.

He comes out with a feature, you immediately copy it, he comes out with another – same thing, you even refer to the box as “greet box”, a term you hardly came up with. Your plugin is essentially the same as his, with a few extra features tacked on, to be different. Again, I also frown upon this.

Having seen the AJAX-related vulnerability and how long it took you to find it, I am going with GreetBox.

By: phoenix.heart

phoenix.heart — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:27:53 +0000

You’re welcome, Rory
For me I should take care of this bug…

By: Rory

Rory — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:26:56 +0000

Thanks!

By: Rory

Rory — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:25:45 +0000

Ahh, works.

By: phoenix.heart

phoenix.heart — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:22:33 +0000

Rory, could you try pasting this line into line 162 of the file wp-content/referrer-detector/reffer_detector.php?

print(‘’);

and try again?

By: Rory

Rory — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:14:56 +0000

Error: jQuery is not defined

Source File: http://www.roryhansen.ca/wp-content/plugins/referrer-detector/js/jquery-ui-personalized.js

Line: 23

Error: jQuery is not defined

Source File: http://www.roryhansen.ca/wp-content/plugins/referrer-detector/js/jquery.livequery.js
Line: 11

Error: jQuery is not defined
Source
File: http://www.roryhansen.ca/wp-content/plugins/referrer-detector/js/admin_onload.js

Line: 1

By: phoenix.heart

phoenix.heart — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:09:13 +0000

I’m afraid that error from IE won’t help much… Could you install Firebug extension for FF and see the errors? Thanks in advance!

By: Rory

Rory — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:04:18 +0000

You’ll need to excuse the crappy IE error message. I can’t seem to get an error message out of Firefox (2 and 3), the links just do nothing.

IE7 javascript error:
Line: 2
Char: 1
Error: Object expected
Code: 0
URL: http://www.roryhansen.ca/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=referrer_detector.php