Name: OP !KsOyY8CYMo 2011-08-15 4:08
So I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Java. Maybe I should be thanking my high school's lame IT department, maybe not. It was a total blast making a simple web server to host a private web page on our school's (ethernet cable) intranet.
With a cheap 4chan-ish (however, not anonymous. it picked up your username when you posted, reducing any impersonation) text board and file upload/download page, we totally helped a few kids pass. I hosted the web site off of a Hamachi VPN when I was at home for kids who didn't have a thumb drive, could upload their work and download it onto their student accounts once school started each day. Even a few teachers worked with me and used it.
I ran an account whitelist, and if you weren't on it, you'd hit a 404 page. This kept the IT department away. Reason being, by the school handbook it violated our use of technology contract which we agree to when you come in as a freshman. However, I entrusted the source code to a friend who's now a senior and crafted the HTML and JS end of things with me when it was indev. He's currently working with one of the IT guys to get it past the red tape as an official student forum (which, part of the reason this was started is because we - don't - have one).
The last bits of code I added was a language and content filter. 5 flags for an autoban, and admin accounts get notified with each individual flag with information on what you were trying to post, from what account, and from what computer. Text files that were uploaded could easily be scanned, any images or word documents were put in a bin to be approved before it was linked on the FTP page. This was definitely a selling point to the IT guys.
Now if only we could get a game dev/general programming curriculum passed. With the work me and my friend did on the side with C++, we opened up Co-op opportunities with Harmonix for future students.
So Java's awesome in my book. If anyone has any other interesting stories like this, you should definitely share.
With a cheap 4chan-ish (however, not anonymous. it picked up your username when you posted, reducing any impersonation) text board and file upload/download page, we totally helped a few kids pass. I hosted the web site off of a Hamachi VPN when I was at home for kids who didn't have a thumb drive, could upload their work and download it onto their student accounts once school started each day. Even a few teachers worked with me and used it.
I ran an account whitelist, and if you weren't on it, you'd hit a 404 page. This kept the IT department away. Reason being, by the school handbook it violated our use of technology contract which we agree to when you come in as a freshman. However, I entrusted the source code to a friend who's now a senior and crafted the HTML and JS end of things with me when it was indev. He's currently working with one of the IT guys to get it past the red tape as an official student forum (which, part of the reason this was started is because we - don't - have one).
The last bits of code I added was a language and content filter. 5 flags for an autoban, and admin accounts get notified with each individual flag with information on what you were trying to post, from what account, and from what computer. Text files that were uploaded could easily be scanned, any images or word documents were put in a bin to be approved before it was linked on the FTP page. This was definitely a selling point to the IT guys.
Now if only we could get a game dev/general programming curriculum passed. With the work me and my friend did on the side with C++, we opened up Co-op opportunities with Harmonix for future students.
So Java's awesome in my book. If anyone has any other interesting stories like this, you should definitely share.