Good software development forums?

[AntiAnto]

Hey,

I'm currently in need to find some help to generate some interest in a software project (ecere) and I was thinking about posting the project on forums in order to seek offer from:

- People who would like to try it out, use it in their own software projects.
- Development Contributors
- Help on the business and marketing side of things.

Do you know any appropriate forums in which this would be possible?


EDIT: With the Ecere SDK, you can:

Build Cross Platform GUI Applications:

Develop applications once, deploy them on all platforms alongside a lightweight runtime environment.

Use Powerful Object Oriented Programming:

Ecere introduces eC, an object oriented language derived from and fully compatible with C, compromising neither runtime performance nor ease of use.

Read more about it at www.ecere.com

Thanks.

 

[-Psy-]

It really depends what you're making. You can narrow down the amount of forums then.

 

[Ennui]

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/

 

[AntiAnto]

It really depends what you're making. You can narrow down the amount of forums then.

I've edited my post.

 

[DreamThrall]

I usually go to www.eggheadcafe.com, but they mostly focus on MS development products. Before you start trying to drum up support though, I'd make sure your "developers area" isn't still "coming soon". If there's nothing technical to read, and more importantly, nothing to download, people are just going to forget about it.

Also, the looks nearly identical to C#... how close is it practically?

 

[jerstlouis]

I fixed the link to the Developer's Area You can download the SDK from there.
And the Technologies page is all about technicalities to read
The Ecere SDK in Action page also contains some sample code along with screenshots.

The software is still in an early status, so ideally I'm looking for a few good projects to try it out as a development kit, and maybe find a few people willing to contribute.

The eC language is derived from C, so it shares that in common with C#.

However it was not even inspired by C#, but rather designed as a solution to the limitations an difficulties of C/C++.

 

[AntiAnto]

For anyone who wondered, jers is actually the creator of the project.

 

[mindless_moder]

gamedev.net and irrlicht.sourceforge.net come to mind you could also try handing out the sdk to a few software development blogs and have them write up a review or something. the project looks quite interesting i'd love to have some kind of alternative to java it never seems to work on other platforms .. atleast not for me anyways.

 

[Kyorisu]

Careful when naming your images "banner" they get smashed by ad blockers.

 

[mindless_moder]

btw kudos on the warcraft clone ! , not sure if you made it but it looks well rounded that must have taken some time to develop.

 

[jerstlouis]

yes I made that WarCraft II clone a long time ago...
Built with the SDK It's not fully completed, but I do hope to complete it just for fun one day...
It was running in DOS back then, the Ecere SDK stood the test of time and adapted to the new technology

 

[jerstlouis]

Kyo: Thanks, I fixed that. What ad blocker is that anyways? Seems a little bit extreme

 

[jerstlouis]

mindless_moder: Are you a developer yourself? please feel free to try it out... You can download it from the Developers' Area (Requires a quick registration)
I already posted on gamedev.net... I'll try that other forum you mentioned, thanks!
Do you know of any such blogs to have a review done?
However I'm not sure the SDK would withstand a thorough review, as it's still in pre-release status and still requires work such as an API review and cleanup, documentation, etc.
I'm just trying to get a few people to actually start using it and hopefully get some help to complete it.

 

[mindless_moder]

I'm not exactly too sure what classifies a person as a developer , i havent really programmed any applications or had too much experience with development. i know how to program and I'm always learning new things. I'm definitely going to check out the SDK when i have some free time. as for the blogs i read through a few on a daily/weekly basis but they're mostly web development blogs (php,mysql that sort of thing) but i'll put them up here anyways :-
http://immike.net/
http://gneu.org/ he deals with low level programming and some other interesting stuff(mods , graphics programming etc.)
http://www.codinghorror.com

 

[Kyorisu]

Kyo: Thanks, I fixed that. What ad blocker is that anyways? Seems a little bit extreme

Adzapper. Unlike things like adblock the ads are not downloaded so you save bandwidth, runs along with my squid caching proxy. All good now and interesting project your working on. Group I work for now have me doing software deployment and support which is just as boring as it sounds.

I'll give it a download when my quota resets tomorrow, shaped 64/64 is no fun! (hence why I have the squid proxy, speed for fetching cached objects is just a bonus).

 

[mindless_moder]

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