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appleseed
The Appleseed Project - The First Open Source+Distributed Social Networking Platform
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| Oct 11 | 2010-10-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-10-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Oct 18 | 2010-10-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-10-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 25 | 2010-10-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Nov 1 | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-11-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 8 | 2010-11-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-11-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 15 | 2010-11-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-11-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 22 | 2010-11-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-11-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 29 | 2010-11-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-12-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 6 | 2010-12-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-12-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Dec 13 | 2010-12-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-12-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 20 | 2010-12-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-12-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 27 | 2010-12-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 3 | 2011-01-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 10 | 2011-01-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 17 | 2011-01-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 24 | 2011-01-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 31 | 2011-01-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-02-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 7 | 2011-02-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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7 sourcesThe Appleseed social framework. =)
https://github.com/appleseedproj/appleseed
In Software design mistakes that Diaspora needs to fix.I'm not talking about extending HTTP, though, I'm talking about a protocol over HTTP. My project uses a custom protocol called QuickSocial:
https://github.com/appleseedproj/appleseed/blob/master/_docu...
Although the software is protocol-agnostic, and hooks could be written to support XMPP, as well.
I think my biggest issue with XMPP (beyond it's verboseness) is that it requires a whole separate XMPP server. This is less of an issue for Diaspora, which already requires a series of services running, but for my project, Appleseed, the goal is to get everything running under a LAMP stack which can be run on any shared host.
In Software design mistakes that Diaspora needs to fix.A Facebook without walls: Appleseed opens to the public.
Hello, HN!
Appleseed is an open source distributed social networking framework I've been developing for the past few years, and I've been making rapid progress in the past few months.
I'm giving out invites to the test site, and I wanted to personally ask HN users to check out this work in progress and if you could give me feedback or suggestions, that would be fantastic.
Post your email here, or send an email to invite@appleseedproject.org if you don't want it to be public, and I'll send you an invite. Once you sign up, you'll get 5 invites of your own.
Project's Website: http://opensource.appleseedproject.org
Github: http://github.com/appleseedproj/appleseed
Twitter Announcement: http://twitter.com/appleseedproj/status/29017132391
Thanks again for being a great community, and feel free to ask any questions and I'll do my best to respon
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I couldn't agree with this rant more. I use frameworks because they streamline my code, and provide basic abstractions for simple tasks. One of my biggest issues with Rails (to be fair, it's more about people new to rails), is the way it sees abstraction as a form of magic. Simple tasks should be abstracted, but abstracting complex tasks is a recipe for disaster down the line, when you need to operate outside of the confines of the abstraction. This can be mind-numbinglyannoying for experienced programmers, and frustrating for new programmers.
I do want to address specifically the idea of abstracting out things like HTML or SQL. These are my two pet peeves. I look at something like HAML, and I can't understand why anyone would consider that to be a good idea, even putting aside the fact that your designer will have to learn a whole n
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ew syntax, but the idea that markup should look like programming language defeats the point of a markup language.
Here's how I did it with Appleseed, using the simple_html_dom library. Views are dumb, very dumb. You create a view which is only markup, for instance:
http://github.com/appleseedproj/appleseed/blob/master/compon...
So you properly class and id your markup, and in the controller, you populate the data, repeating elements for lists or tables, by targetting the dom.
If I want to set the title on this view, I do:
$View = $this->GetView ( 'friends');
$View->Find ( '.profile-friends-title', 0 )->innertext = "New Title";
That's it. No template pseudo-code, designers only have to care about the markup itself. On the front-end, I do the same with Javascript. Think of it as unobtrusive PHP.
I also stay away from ORM's. I understand all the arguments in favor, but in the end, I'd much prefer writing complex joins than using an ORM.
Separation of concerns is so important, and yet, sometimes I think frameworks, which are supposed to facilitate that, actually can make it worse, by trying to reinvent the wheel in abstract ways.
Here's all the resources associated with Appleseed. They're on the indiegogo page, but they're a little hard to find.
- General Links
Main: http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/
Fundraising: http://www.indiegogo.com/Open-Source-Social-Networking
Drumbeat: http://www.drumbeat.org/project/appleseed-social-networking
Beta Test: http://appleseedproject.org
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=366560616455
Twitter: http://twitter.com/appleseedproj
Identi.ca: http://identi.ca/appleseedproj
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/appleseedproj
- Development Links
Source Code: http://github.com/appleseedproj/appleseed
Packages: http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/download/
Bug Tracking: http://appleseedproj.lighthouseapp.com
Discussion Mailing List:
http://groups.google.com/group/open-social-networking
In Help fund an open source Facebook alternative: AppleseedIt doesn't get much more open source than this:
http://github.com/appleseedproj/appleseed
Source has been available under the GPL v2 for quite a while now.
And we're asking for funding, because there's always more to do. The foundation is set, the features are there, but a project like this is never really done. There's security, threat modeling, scalability and stress testing, and just plain development of future features and bug testing.
In Help fund an open source Facebook alternative: Appleseed