looking for Perl programmer for sheevaplug/guruplug

[edwardwo]

Dear all:
I'm from China, and I've been using sheevaplug for over 1.5 year, I really like this tiny box. So few months ago, I got an idea to make it a commercial product by installing and configuring many services like rTorrent, MLDonkey, MPD, OpenVPN, rsync between windows client and plug server, etc. Because I'm not a programmer, I asked one of my friend to help design an administrative web on the plug, so end users can login to the web page, adding new hdd, setting BT downloading preferences, playing music....
But my friend had his own business now, so the development progress stopped, but I already put lots of time, efforts on this project, it has to move on.
So anyone who are interested and capable of Perl programming, MySql, shell script, please send me a message. Since I already got many ideas on the plug, and its future development plan, the payment will be made based on phases, so this is not a one-time deal.

By the way, I bought a squeezebox duet today, and I thought it is a perfect match with the plug, a whole new experience of listening music.

[two9er]

Not to undermine your enthusiasm for developing, but does webmin not suit your needs for administrative purposes? A minimum install perhaps and then tailored to suit?

Code:

# wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.520-minimal.tar.gz
# gunzip webmin-1.520.tar.gz
# tar xf webmin-1.520.tar
# cd webmin-1.520
# ./setup.sh /usr/local/webmin

HTH, Jim

[edwardwo]

To be honest, we already "copied" some code from webmin like , harddrive geometry layout, partition disk, create filesystem. But 80% of the development still need to be customized, nowhere to copy from.
For example, you can't ask user to log into plug via ssh, and open MPD's configuration file using VIM, then edit few variables' value, save it, then restart service. The best approach would be that user click "browse" button, select where the music folder is, then click "restart MPD" button.

I think it's not a hard task for experienced programmers, but in China, most people are only familiar with windows technology.