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About
What network would be complete without its own in house development gurus? These bit magicians and web divas/gurus maintain patch sets and fixes for the various software running on our IRC network, as well for the design and development of our end user website, and integrated staff intranet. We can be reached via email at dev at darenet dot org or in #dev on the network, which is probably the easiest way to get in touch with us.
Our current projects
| Project Name | Maintainer | Basis | Programming Language | Required Release |
| ircd-darenet | SecretAgent | Nefarious IRCu | C | 1.3.4b |
| services-darenet | SecretAgent | Srvx, X3 | C, Python | 1.3-sql |
| website-darenet | SecretAgent | (from scratch) | PHP | - |
| webchat-darenet | SecretAgent | qwebirc | Python | v0.85+darenet |
ircd-darenet
ircd-darenet is based on nefarious ircu, from the lovely people on the evilnet development team. We decided rather than always downloading and modifying the source every time a new version of nefarious was released, to instead fork and maintain our own branch. The amount of changes already made are quite significant (over 4000 lines in all!). Such changes include the addition of a spam bot detection system, anti-drone flood system, additional operator privileges and tweaks to existing ones, some backend enhancements, new channel/user modes and tweaks to existing ones, and much more.
services-darenet
Our services, code named services-darenet, are currently based on srvx and x3, but also include features unique to DareNET.
webchat-darenet
We have been following qwebirc's development for quite some time now, and have found it to be a great alternative to sites such as mibbit. Much thanks to Chris Porter aka slug for developing this great client, and freely releasing it. DareNET currently runs a modified version of it, dubbed webchat-darenet. Some modifications can be found here.
website-darenet
Developing PHP sites without a preconceived plan to manage them is asking for a headache. The goal of a framework is to make the process of writing web-based applications easier. Unfortunately, the vast majority of PHP frameworks currently out there don't really provide everything DareNET's next generation web site will require; therefore, we have started working on our own, custom framework. More information can be found here.
The current site is built upon the Joomla framework, and boosts a wide variety of custom components, modules and applications. It is integrated with our IRC network, which presently allows individuals to register a NickServ (DareNET) account, which can then be used to build user profiles, post to the forums, create social groups, chat on IRC and much more.
The site is programmed in PHP and uses MySQL as its database backend.
