So who is behind all the code at codejanitor.com?
Jason Rust
Greg Gilbert
Greg Lawler
John Rodkey
Anne Anderson
Why are we coding FastFrame and its apps?
Necessity for the most part. Nearly all the applications developed thus far are used on a daily basis here at Brooks. We did search quite a bit to make sure there were no suitable Open Source alternatives out there, but we found that IT software tailored to an IT department at a school is not all that prevalent, and what software we did find was usually in beta stage or designed back in NS4 days.
Why is FastFrame and its apps Open Source?
With a small coding crew, we have been able to produce an array of quality applications because we have been able to build upon the extensive trove of Open Source libraries available on the net.
Many thanks to the PEAR, PHP, Apache, Horde and other teams committed to Open Source development.
History
Mayday was first written in Perl by Anne Anderson at Westmont College where Greg Lawler was working at the time (Both Greg Gilbert and Jason Rust worked for Greg Lawler as students while studying at Westmont). Greg, Greg and Jason are now all co-workers at Brooks Institute of Photography.)
When Greg Lawler moved to Brooks in late 2000, he ported the concept and wrote the first PHP version of Mayday (version 1.0). Greg L. lured Greg G. from his post-Westmont job and version 2.0 was created in conjunction with the first checkout release. A year or so later, Jason also moved to Brooks and v3.0 (a total re-write) of Mayday, Checkout and FastFrame was created.
John Rodkey and Westmont still generously donate the bandwidth and colocation needed to host codejanitor.com.
And for fun?
Well, there’s always badgerbadgerbadger.
