I'd like to write a little book on personal topics together with two friends of mine, remotely located. Do you know of any FOSS content publishing system like the one from O'Reilly (OPFS)?
I saw the one that powers the django book but It seems that the code It's not released yet. I accept any kind of backend technology for this project.
I'd like to:
edit the book on the web and let my friend do the same after authentication.
anyone of us could comment other's entries.
You could use Google Wave. You get the benefit of watching where others are editing / you can roll back the whole doc or specific parts / comment on specific parts plus you can use it from any computer so you don't have to be home or carry a laptop to edit your book when inspiration hits you.
OK, I'm going to roll out my own solution following the direction written here. I like a lot thigs like bitesizeedits or leanpub. The base will be a multiuser platform: mu. I'm quite fond with wordpress and as version control I'm happy with GIT. The commenting system will be digress.it.
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So I am writing a rails application for my friends food truck business.
The functionality that I am trying to create with this specific application is the ability for him to update the google map by posting a Geo-location tag on twitter.
A lot of the ruby gems that deal with google maps seem to be depreciated so I'm a bit lost at the moment. If anyone could just point me in the correct direction I would appreciate it.
I realize that this feature is just a quality of life feature but id like to be able to do it with embedded ruby and not have to break out the JavaScript (ugh). Ideal this kind of automation would be great for this particular type of website because my friend won't always have access to the back-end of the website when he is on the move. (Already able to update a map from an admin backend but its not good enough for a business that moves multiple places in a given day.)
anyways, thanks in advance. (if anyone wants me to post any of my code I will.)
So after reading your question, I thought it would be fun to tinker with the Twitter API again since I haven't used it in a while.
I went ahead and created a sample application for you that basically does what you were asking for. It looks for recent tweets from a user, grabs the latest one, then updates a Google map with a marker on that location.
Keep in mind that this was quickly thrown together, so it's far from perfect. But all the concepts should be there!
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the app or anything else. I'm always happy to help.
I would like to know is there any forum or google repository where we can publish our dart projects for showcasing or for fun just to exchange opinions other than github or any svn vendors as such.
Since all major platform vendors have this feature.
If yes would request someone to point me in the right direction since I am working on a small simple project and I am interested in just publishing our work just for experiment sake.
Check out http://www.builtwithdart.com - which aims to be a showcase of community contributed Dart apps.
To contribute pick from the following options:
clone, edit and submit a pull request at the site's github
open an issue at the site's github
Ping me a message
Ideally contributors would be able to provide a screenshot, a G+ link, and a paragraph or two about the app - especially welcome are any notes you have about developing it using Dart.
This is what we have: http://www.dartlang.org/samples/. Other projects that use Google technologies are showcased on https://developers.google.com/showcase/, but Dart has its own site. http://www.dartlang.org/samples/ already has some third-party contributions. If we get a lot more, we can do more to showcase them. It'd also be great to showcase a bunch of cool apps at Google I/O, especially if they're large and in production or if they're particularly cool technologically. If you're working on those sorts of things, you can either send me email, leave me a comment, or post to the Dart mailing list. Thanks!
I'm developing for the Xbox with XNA currently, but when I click on several links to the official Microsoft site, e.g. tutorials and files, then I get redirected to this page:
http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/19992.aspx
For example by clicking this link:
http://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/sample/skinned_model
Anyone having the same problems with the official Microsoft site currently?
Yes. Microsoft are aware of this issue - although I'm not privy to any information about when/if they will fix it.
Basically, as part of the move to Windows Phone 8, they've separated out the Xbox and Phone development stuff.
If you come across old links like that, you can usually repair them by hand by changing the domain like so:
forums.create.msdn.com becomes xboxforums.create.msdn.com (change the subdomain)
And
create.msdn.com becomes xbox.create.msdn.com (add a subdomain)
Yes.
It'd be like this for a month now. It seems to suggest they are trying to downplay XNA for Windows 8 development which is saddening! You could always use Google's caching service to view the pages if you are finding them from Google... I don't think this will work for downloads though!
i have a website, its to exchange links, files... to say it quickly it's my 'version' of twitter+megaupload,
Well, users add links all the time and so on, but i would like user be able to syinch his bookmarks from the browser to the ones he has at his profile of mywebsite,
Where should i look into?
Basically i need to be able to:
- Acces bookmarks file (1)
- being able to send the urls to my service ( 2 )
- maybe adding the login feature (in the future)
I was google'ing about this for ages few weeks a go and i kind of give up, because i'm ok with PHP and JS, but with this plugin languages i'm very lost. So i decided posting here, wich always brings positive answers
(1) - > I don't even know where to start
(2) -> i was thinking to have a website.com/auto_import_no_confirm.php?url=[URL] and put it in a for each.
how many different languages and extension files do i have to work with? I really need any kind of tip with point (1)
feel like?
-edit-
Just found This -> https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Code_snippets/Bookmarks
wich really looks like i need, but where do i place this code?
thanks!
Might not be a bad question, but there are too many subtopics raised to answer that. (And there is too much tagspam as well. Break up your question into PHP- and Javascript-specific tasks, when you have devised the general application scheme.)
But to get started, download similar Firefox extensions (.xpi) and unzip them to inspect the general structure. You'll find examplary code for bookmark handling and invoking remote APIs pretty quickly. And basically you only need Javascript for the extension itself. (It sounds like your extension does not need much UI.)
And there are many tutorials on designing Firefox addons: http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/ or http://www.google.com/search?q=firefox+develop+an+xpi
The good news first, you won't need much more than javascript if you just want to access bookmarks and send them to a server, neither on firefox nor on chrome.
But still you'll have to make yourself familiar with the apis of the browsers and learn how to develop extensions.
However, both Mozilla and Google provide all necessary information on their developer sites.
For Chrome, this is a good place to start, you'll find the api for bookmark access here.
The Corresponding site for Firefox can be found here, with information on bookmark access here.
I'm an awful programmer, so if there is just an easy plugin, that would be a huge help.
I have a few issues:
1. Is there a plugin that allows visitors to my Wordpress site to easily upload their own Youtube vids for other visitors to see?
I'd like to be able to have other visitors rate the user uploaded Youtube vids and then allow other visitors to sort the vids based on rating, is there an easy way to set that up in my Wordpress site?
Finally, I'd like a create a forum similar to StackOverflow in my Wordpress site, anyone know how I can do that?
Thanks to everyone in advance. As you can tell, I'm not very smart with all of this.
I am not aware of a WordPress plug in like you describe. However, if you have the budget for a programmer to do some custom work, I would investigate some existing video plug ins for WP like andrewk suggests and then hire a programmer to implement the voting stuff and any other customizations you need.
I'd also check out the group blogging functionality from Posterous [http://posterous.com]. In the settings panel, there is a setting that you can toggle labeled "Who should be allowed to post on your site?" You can set it to "Anyone can post and I will moderate." Users can then submit posts via email. This solution is ideal for someone with limited programming knowledge since Posterous is easy to use and easy to set up. But it might be limiting in customizing certain aspects of the site. (E.g., implementing the rating and sorting stuff you describe.) Learn more about Posterous Groups: http://help.posterous.com/introducing-group-sites-tutorial
Stack Overflow is powered by software called Stack Exchange [http://stackexchange.com/]. You can submit a proposal for a new Stack Exchange community here: http://area51.stackexchange.com.
However, if you wish to set up a forum on your own site there are several hosted forum solutions that you might consider such as http://www.ninjapost.com, http://www.lefora.com, or http://discussions.zoho.com. A hosted forum solution is advantageous for someone with limited programming knowledge because the set up/installation does not require much programming knowledge compared to a script that you'd install and configure yourself such as phpBB.