On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Chris Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dean, what OS are you on? I'm due to try a from-scratch install on a > VM, and I've got a MacBook laying around that needs action2, so I'll > try those installs in the next couple of days. Hopefully it's > something easy to fix when I've reproduced it. > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Dean Landolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > (I hope you don't mind my poking around your db internals, jchris) > > Please feel free to as long as you play nice. If you'd like to deploy > your feed reader to my CouchDB, you're welcome to. No promises about > uptime! Beautiful -- and I promise I'll be nice. Though, couch's sound design means there's nothing I can do to your system (other than drop your dbs, which I won't touch obviously). Are there any other security concerns in that light? I've left my instance wide for a few friends to play with -- perhaps I should have asked this earlier. > > It's got everything you referenced (and the paths look right -- it's a > > strait install). So I'm still at a loss. Ah well -- I'm trying to slap > > together an unobtrusive google reader clone so I've gots plenty to do > before > > I need to worry about persistence. I can just do everything in the > browser > > in the meantime. > > Very cool. I'm working on a Twitter client, and it hasn't even needed > to dip into action servers yet. The main action use I can see for you > would be as a built-in proxy for fetching RSS feeds. I know -- I *was* poking around. I feel like such a peeping tom, though it does have a TI-82 feel (my high school baseline -- am I dating myself with that one?)... I noticed you were still action-free -- but to do it unobtrusively I'm going to need the action server for every request -- and based on the req obj it can decide whether to pass the whole template or just the small piece that I can jQuery.load into the dom (I haven't been able to examine the req yet but I imagine I'll be able to get to the jQuery X-Requested-With header it passes in). But yeah, if I squash the unobtrusive thing I'll probably only need an action for periodic feed updates (any ideas on a good cron strategy for something like an action server that would take through replication?). > > > The Twitter client is up on my public couch now. I haven't tried it on > anything but a Mac with firefox/firebug or Safari. It seems to work. > Please let me know if it works for you! > > > http://jchris.mfdz.com:5984/twitter-client/_design%2Ftwitter-client/index.html I already tried it -- I couldn't help myself. An hour ago all I got was a black screen -- now I see some action down below (other than the tweet form everything gets cut off on Firefox Ubuntu Hardy). > > > (I don't store passwords, or even see them - the browser just basic > auth's with Twitter's JSONP api.) There's a cosmetic problem when > posting status updates, where Twitter's response gets downloaded > instead of silently hitting the iframe... I sure hope I can solve that > while still maintaining the direct user-twitter connection. Screw cosmetics. Don't forget there's always a better designer out there -- justTI-85 the thing and that's easy enough for someone else to fix! > > > > > > I haven't even gotten started yet and I think I'm starting to love this > > javascript + javascript development. > > > > Glad you like it! I'm a python guy but I've really grown to appreciate the beauty of javascript. Frankly I'm starting to really miss js anonymous function blocks every time I try to cram a lambda onto one line (among other things). But this whole notion of not having to worry about deployment...at...all. Just thinking about it makes me want to almost cry. > > > > > -- > Chris Anderson > http://jchris.mfdz.com >
