Re: cloudy BBDB
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:08:48 -0400 Brett Presnell presn...@stat.ufl.edu wrote: BP I do pretty well at keeping my bbdb databased synced across the machines BP that I use. My bigger problem is syncing it with my mobile phone BP (nokia/symbian right now) and my google contacts (similar issues with BP emacs diary, but that's a different story). So if the CouchDB setup BP makes it possible/easier for me to sync the information with these other BP devices, then I am very interested. Otherwise, not as much. It's definitely easier to sync to and from CouchDB than the native BBDB file format. If you have details about these other formats you need, that would help. I don't know what your phone and Google expect so I can't say for sure if I could generate them on the fly. Thanks Ted -- RSAreg; Conference 2012 Save #36;700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: cloudy BBDB
Ted Zlatanov t...@lifelogs.com writes: It's definitely easier to sync to and from CouchDB than the native BBDB file format. If you have details about these other formats you need, that would help. I don't know what your phone and Google expect so I can't say for sure if I could generate them on the fly. Google can deal with vcard and cvs. I have a reliable way to sync my phone's contacts with Google, so if I can sync bbdb with Google, I'm good to go. Presumably this will also be true for any cell phone I might get in the near future (surely an android phone will sync nicely with google). This may be changing, but in my experience, cell phones can be extremely persnickety about what sort of vcard format they'll accept. So its probably not worth worrying about direct syncing with my aging nokia (even though it is ostensibly a smart phone). Does your bbdb work tie in with any existing CouchDB efforts? (I think that there's some way to use Gnome's evolution in conjunction with CouchDB.) -- RSAreg; Conference 2012 Save #36;700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: cloudy BBDB
I do pretty well at keeping my bbdb databased synced across the machines that I use. My bigger problem is syncing it with my mobile phone (nokia/symbian right now) and my google contacts (similar issues with emacs diary, but that's a different story). So if the CouchDB setup makes it possible/easier for me to sync the information with these other devices, then I am very interested. Otherwise, not as much. Ted Zlatanov t...@lifelogs.com writes: I put together some code that uses CouchDB to store Gnus group subscriptions and marks in gnus-sync.el. It works well; so well in fact that I'm considering doing the same for BBDB records. Imagine having your BBDB entirely stored on a central server instead of a local file. Yes, kind of like LDAP, but not so hard to use and much more accessible. In order to do this I will have to generalize and improve the gnus-sync.el code that talks to CouchDB. But I wanted to first find out if this interests anyone (and please feel free to tell me my idea sucks), or if there's existing functionality that I would be duplicating. I'm not aware of such. Thanks Ted -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/ -- Get your Android app more play: Bring it to the BlackBerry PlayBook in minutes. BlackBerry App World#153; now supports Android#153; Apps for the BlackBerryreg; PlayBook#153;. Discover just how easy and simple it is! http://p.sf.net/sfu/android-dev2dev ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: cloudy BBDB
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:58:19 +0700 Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote: EA On Fri, Oct 28 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote: I put together some code that uses CouchDB to store Gnus group subscriptions and marks in gnus-sync.el. It works well; so well in fact that I'm considering doing the same for BBDB records. Imagine having your BBDB entirely stored on a central server instead of a local file. Yes, kind of like LDAP, but not so hard to use and much more accessible. In order to do this I will have to generalize and improve the gnus-sync.el code that talks to CouchDB. But I wanted to first find out if this interests anyone (and please feel free to tell me my idea sucks), or if there's existing functionality that I would be duplicating. I'm not aware of such. EA Out of curiosity, what sort of support would be needed on the server EA side. Just a CouchDB installation? I assume it's the sort of thing you'd EA need your own hosting and SSH access to set up? Just CouchDB (you may need to install some custom design views, but that's trivial and I already do it for gnus-sync.el). There's something interesting here. CouchDB has built-in multipoint replication (master-master) over HTTP. So you can run your own locally and another one somewhere else; the replication is trivial to set up. So rather than a world-visible CouchDB server you could have two private ones talking over HTTP. As for third-party solutions, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091735/is-there-a-hosted-couchdb-service-provider Cloudant and Iris Couch have free plans to provide hosted CouchDB that will probably be good enough for most of us. I can host people on my server as long as I can afford it :) But the idea is that this is an infrastructure you can easily obtain, and the BBDB sync will ride on top of it. Ted -- Get your Android app more play: Bring it to the BlackBerry PlayBook in minutes. BlackBerry App World#153; now supports Android#153; Apps for the BlackBerryreg; PlayBook#153;. Discover just how easy and simple it is! http://p.sf.net/sfu/android-dev2dev ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: cloudy BBDB
On Sun, Oct 30 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote: On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:58:19 +0700 Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote: EA On Fri, Oct 28 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote: I put together some code that uses CouchDB to store Gnus group subscriptions and marks in gnus-sync.el. It works well; so well in fact that I'm considering doing the same for BBDB records. Imagine having your BBDB entirely stored on a central server instead of a local file. Yes, kind of like LDAP, but not so hard to use and much more accessible. In order to do this I will have to generalize and improve the gnus-sync.el code that talks to CouchDB. But I wanted to first find out if this interests anyone (and please feel free to tell me my idea sucks), or if there's existing functionality that I would be duplicating. I'm not aware of such. EA Out of curiosity, what sort of support would be needed on the server EA side. Just a CouchDB installation? I assume it's the sort of thing you'd EA need your own hosting and SSH access to set up? Just CouchDB (you may need to install some custom design views, but that's trivial and I already do it for gnus-sync.el). There's something interesting here. CouchDB has built-in multipoint replication (master-master) over HTTP. So you can run your own locally and another one somewhere else; the replication is trivial to set up. So rather than a world-visible CouchDB server you could have two private ones talking over HTTP. As for third-party solutions, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091735/is-there-a-hosted-couchdb-service-provider Cloudant and Iris Couch have free plans to provide hosted CouchDB that will probably be good enough for most of us. I can host people on my server as long as I can afford it :) But the idea is that this is an infrastructure you can easily obtain, and the BBDB sync will ride on top of it. Cool, thanks! I do have my own server, so this would be pretty simple -- just curious! E -- Get your Android app more play: Bring it to the BlackBerry PlayBook in minutes. BlackBerry App World#153; now supports Android#153; Apps for the BlackBerryreg; PlayBook#153;. Discover just how easy and simple it is! http://p.sf.net/sfu/android-dev2dev ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: cloudy BBDB
On Fri, Oct 28 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote: I put together some code that uses CouchDB to store Gnus group subscriptions and marks in gnus-sync.el. It works well; so well in fact that I'm considering doing the same for BBDB records. Imagine having your BBDB entirely stored on a central server instead of a local file. Yes, kind of like LDAP, but not so hard to use and much more accessible. In order to do this I will have to generalize and improve the gnus-sync.el code that talks to CouchDB. But I wanted to first find out if this interests anyone (and please feel free to tell me my idea sucks), or if there's existing functionality that I would be duplicating. I'm not aware of such. Out of curiosity, what sort of support would be needed on the server side. Just a CouchDB installation? I assume it's the sort of thing you'd need your own hosting and SSH access to set up? Thanks, Eric -- Get your Android app more play: Bring it to the BlackBerry PlayBook in minutes. BlackBerry App World#153; now supports Android#153; Apps for the BlackBerryreg; PlayBook#153;. Discover just how easy and simple it is! http://p.sf.net/sfu/android-dev2dev ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
cloudy BBDB
I put together some code that uses CouchDB to store Gnus group subscriptions and marks in gnus-sync.el. It works well; so well in fact that I'm considering doing the same for BBDB records. Imagine having your BBDB entirely stored on a central server instead of a local file. Yes, kind of like LDAP, but not so hard to use and much more accessible. In order to do this I will have to generalize and improve the gnus-sync.el code that talks to CouchDB. But I wanted to first find out if this interests anyone (and please feel free to tell me my idea sucks), or if there's existing functionality that I would be duplicating. I'm not aware of such. Thanks Ted -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
