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Take Searching Into Your Own Hands
About the Deathwatch Project
The Deathwatch WebCrawler was an idea created by Matthew Walker to allow all users of the internet, currently only Win32 or 64 though, to have their own personal desktop WebCrawler. The vision was as such that a user could simply enter a search term and a home site and let it do its thing. This vision is coming together, and although version 1 still is a long way off, it is coming together nicely!
Getting the Newest Version
Although we have not released any compiled versions of the crawler, we do have reference and source packages up for download, both through SourceForge's file release system, and the CVS repository. You cannot download the newest version from this site due to server restrictions, however as we release new packages, they will be updated on this page!
Getting the Source
Because Deathwatch is an open-source project, it has to be to get on SourceForge, you may get the source in a number of ways. The first, and arguably the hardest is to access the Deathwatch CVS repository, if you know your way around CVS then this is definitely the option for you. Alternatively, you can download the semi-current source from our project website on SourceForge, http://sourceforge.net/projects/deathwatch.
What if I Want to Join
Depends on what you mean. Of course you can join, submit a support request, request for features, report a bug, or even downloading the source can be considered helping us out. If what you want to do is join the development team, please note that their are the following prerequisites: Visual Basic .NET 2003 or higher, .NET Framework 2003 or higher. If in the case that you do not have these requirements, you can still join our development team as a BETA tester or documentation writer. Contact Matthew Walker if you have any questions or wish to join the team.
Project Developers
Project Admin: Matthew Walker (mmkid@users.sourceforge.net)
Programmer: Mansour (mansourbeh@users.sourceforge.net)
Programmer: Ketan Mamtora (mamtora@users.sourceforge.net)
Beta Tester: Max Carlquist (nomad1234@users.sourceforge.net)
Resources
-Text Resources
-Adobe
Resource Junk, For The PDF Module
-As The Title Describes, A
Bunch Of White Papers About Adobe Technology
-Evaluation
Of The Standard For Robot Exclusion
-Some things to think about
when designing the Robot Exclusion module
-Guidelines
For Robot Writers
-Essentially a whole load of
nothing, but fun to look through...
-HTML 4.1
Specification
-W3C's Usual Big File On An
Obsolete Language That Many People Still Use
-Robot
Exclusion Standard
-The Whole Big Cheese, The
Actual Implemented Standard As Of 1994
-Robot
Exclusion Standard v2 RFC
-The Revised Big Cheese, The
Standard That's Not Yet A Standard
-XHTML 1.0
Specification
-The Slightly Newest And
Greatest From The W3C, Replaces HTML 4.1
-XHTML
1.1 - Module-Based XHTML
-The Newest And Greatest From
The W3C, Builds On XHTML 1.0
-XML
Reference
-That's Right, PURE XML From
The W3C
-XML
Schema's
-A Very Useful Description Of A
Rarely, I Think, Used Part Of XML, In 3 Parts...
-Program Resources
-Deathwatch
HTTP Engine
-Basic HTTP Engine, Basis for
Deathwatch WebCrawler engine
-E-Mail
Matthew Walker for the
source
-Requires
Winsock2
-Info-Zip
-What More Can I Say, The Source Code For The
*.ZIP Format... FOR FREE!!!
File Types
Those wishing to know a little about what native file types the crawler uses, please look at this page.
Other
-Due to the technologies that we are using, we develop testing applications for them. One of them is the Deathwatch HTTP Engine, another would be the WalkerSoft Installer Bootstrap. All of these will be released on http://www.astalavista.com/. If you need support or the source on any of these please do not hesitate to e-mail Matthew Walker.
We are hosted by SourceForge so please give them a visit:
At Current We Do Not Have A WebMaster, But Comments And Suggestions Should Be Directed To Matthew Walker
23/04/2004