[ZendTo] Re: Dropbox vs ZendTo

[Jules]

One of the biggest changes I made was to totally separate the code from 
the user interface. This makes it enormously easier to customise the 
appearance of the site while keeping maintainability.

Previously if you had wanted to upgrade Dropox after you had customised 
the web site appearance, you would have had a massive job on your hands.
It can now be done in 5 minutes.

Also, there is the dual-forest AD support. And a whole host of bug 
fixes, extra features such as:
* a note to accompany the dropoff,
* source email address verification,
* captcha test to stop it being automatically spammed, all sorts of things!

But despite all the new features I have added, the code is now *shorter* 
than when I started, and enormously simpler and better structured.

ZendTo is a fork of Dropbox, I openly admit that and give due credit to 
the original designers of Dropbox.

The next plan I have is to totally replace the website with something 
much better looking and more modern. At the moment it is showing its 
age! :-)

Best regards,
Jules.

On 10/02/2011 20:22, Joshua F. Withrow wrote:
>
> So I have to ask...  aside from the creation of a few variables for 
> configuration to make this meet the needs of environments other than 
> UD, what are the major differences between Dropbox and Zendto?  Or how 
> will the direction of ZendTo differ from that of Dropbox?  I only ask 
> because per the very small amount of digging I've done these two 
> projects are quite similar still (I know you have/are base(d/ing).
>
> This isn't important...  I'm just curious J
>
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