People
Thanks to all the people who contributed:
- Daniele Castagna for introducing all the bugs.
- Sara Krüger to take care of me so far (and to be proudly on the "I'm feeling lucky" button.)
- Alessandro Bahgat Sehata for contributing with the development of bitlet.
- Gregory Gumo the man behind fenopy and yotoshi for believing in this project and for kindly hosting it.
- Peter from The Pirate Bay and Slonček for coming here in Italy to chat with me and to have a pizza (WTF more than 8€ for a pizza in Venice), and to use bitlet in the reborn suprnova.
- Ernesto from torrentfreak for being the first user, for discovering the first critical bug, and for hitting the digg front page with his torrentfreak article (and doing it again: thanks even to enigmax.)
- Mininova guys for supporting the project with their experience.
- iisonly for creating the Greasemonkey script that was later used for the bookmarklet.
- All the other people who contributed, but I can't remember because it's too late and I'm falling asleep.
BitTorrent
Kudos for Bram Cohen who created the BitTorrent protocol, diffused it (pr0n does help indeed) and maintains it.
As you can see, the layout is heavily inspired by bittorrent.org: after spending days reading the bittorrent protocol specification on the site, that was the apex of my creativity.
Graphics
Would also like to thank all the authors of the icons bitlet uses, many of which were found on iconlet (we are not related to them, even if after novlet and bitlet iconlet would be a nice domain name to own):
- Mark James for releasing his icons (
,
,
) under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5. - Pablo Fabregat for releasing his icons (
) under a GNU General Public License. - David Vignoni for releasing his icons (
,
,
,
,
) under a GNU Lesser General Public License. - Everaldo Coelho for releasing his icons (
) under a GNU Lesser General Public License. - The Eclipse Project for releasing its icons (
,
) under a Eclipse Public License 1.0. - ajaxload.info for releasing its generated gif (
,
) for free.
Technologies
Bitlet couldn't exist without many open source technologies, here there are a few of them:
- Debian GNU/Linux that powers development and production boxes.
- Java Technologies that let develop bitlet.
- Apache HTTP Server and Apache Tomcat, two fantastic web server solutions.
- Javazoom for releasing JLayer, MP3SPI and VorbisSPI under a GNU Lesser General Public License
- JCraft for releasing JOrbis under a GNU Lesser General Public License