[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Sir Savant:
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You are welcome. It's nice that we offer the same functionality, and that all this information is freely available in each and every ROM thread. I am completely sorry that I copied 8 incomplete record from your database, updated them as I added them to my own (with reference to the original thread and any experience I had with the ROM itself). I am also sorry that we cannot solve this in a civilized manner, as I have offered to remove the information that I have plagiarized so maliciously (an offer you refused), and then have continuously been taunted at every venue.

I make no claim to being complete, my database is far from it. I've got other priorities, such as eating Chipwiches, paying for metrocards and making sure rent is on time (believe it or not, I don't mind that I don't get donations for this. It's nice, but I can survive without them). So if you want kind of complete information (I'm sure SimonNWalker doesn't have time to reflash his device to check if the dialer is standard or HTC on a Roger's rom every time a new one is released), please check out SimonNWalker's site. He also carries a wealth of other information I initially found invaluable (finding what you need in these threads is a pain).

I would also like to thank him for providing me with an initial database schema. It took me a while to figure out what types my fields should be in the database, but after that was setup, it was a cinch to place in information with the CakePHP-baked forms. Make no mistake, 65% of how the data is displayed on my site is based upon SimonNWalker's previous work.

I don't take credit for the template (I left a link to the creator in the template's footer). I don't take credit for the information held within the database (that goes not to SimonNWalker but the original ROM bakers, who decided to mostly post updates on a forum that uses bbcode, allowing me to copy over that bbcode to have nice-looking html). I don't take credit for half the helpers and behaviors I am using, as even though I got them to work in the latest CakePHP for other projects, they were babies of someone else.

However, I'm not completely useless and someone DID have to make architectural decisions. I do take credit for putting it all together, and whether or not it is a word-for-word clone (it isn't) of SimonNWalker's site was not the point. The point was to have another resource for people who are also as clueless as my office manager. The point was to present information, that yes, is available on xda-developers (when it isn't crashing) and is available on SimonNWalker's site, and on countless other sites, in a way I thought was more useful. I don't need an index that has 50 or so entries and isn't very searchable, sortable, nor filterable. I needed it presented slightly differently, and while at first I wanted most of the same functionality as SimonNWalker's site (so i wouldn't need to go to two places), I have also clearly outlined features that I have NOW and features I plan to have that SimonNWalker does not, nor may not plan to have (really, how useful is Twitter integration :P ).

Regardless, it is not my aim to make people upset. I am not taking credit for any of the wonderful ROM releases, nor any of the original poster's information. If I need to make that more explicit, then let me know how. But I will continue developing http://androidrevisions.com for two reasons.

My office manager harasses me about searching for ROM information to update his G1 and he's bad at internet

It's an interesting programming exercise and I get to test the limits of my EXTREMELY limited CakePHP knowledge

If this offends anyone, then I guess they will never be happy with what I am trying to do. Regardless, the community is free to use whatever application they would like and do with that information as they see fit. So please, SimonNWalker, let's be civil about this and keep what seems to be a private issue in PMs. I'd like to collaborate on this, as I've said before (my code is open-source, is yours?), and even though your site is built in ASP, I'm sure we can create two very good applications that fill their own niches (you are a one-stop shop, I just want multiple streams of data). If you want to keep taunting me on twitter, in your thread, in your signature, and on your site, fine, I will be the adult, even though I believe you are some years older than me. Whenever you are ready to play nice and contribute in tandem to the community that has provided so much, let me know.

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Jose