[Mod-pubsub-developer] Welcome to Perl Harbor Day.

[Adam R. <Ad...@Kn...>]

To our glorious and revolutionary mod-pubsub-developer team,

Welcome to Perl Harbor Day!  The Oyster has opened and the Perl is
beautiful.  Thanks to everyone who contributed sand to this effort while
in Silicon Valley.

Joyce cleaned up the installer guide two weeks ago and I just checked
three new applications into the kn_apps directory -- chatbar, knowbuddy,
and pager.  Mike Dierken, if you check your topiczero application and
your Google newsfeed sensor into the distribution that would be really
swell and I'll give you 50 karma points redeemable for the kudos of your
choice.

Joyce, can you please make a mod_pubsub-2002-12-07 release and put it on
the front page as the new distribution?  Thanks in advance... You ARE
the mod_pubsub deity!!


Statistics at Day #30:
----------------------
# of mod_pubsub developers: 9 [includes developers at Amazon, Inktomi,
and Apple!]
# on mod_pubsub developer mailing list: 10 [includes a developer at
Sleepycat, too!]
# of mod_pubsub developer mailing list posts to date: 13 [roughly one
post every two days]
# of downloads to date: 36 [slightly more than one download per day]
# of sample applications checked into mod_pubsub distribution: 37 [not
too shabby]
# of mod_pubsub logo designs considered so far: 1 [we need something
with a cute animal]
# of total Web page views: 734 [not bad for a first month that was very
quiet]
Sourceforge total project ranking: 7242 [only 7241 projects have more
activity than us!]


Cheers,
 Adam

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-pubsub/=20




----- Original message:

From: "Asynch Messaging" <asy...@ho...>
To: <mod...@li...>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:39:31 -0800
Subject: [Mod-pubsub-developer] New kn_apps sample

I'm in the middle of checking in a new sample app - KnowNews - which is
a streaming RSS news viewer. I just need write access to the CVS
repository...

I have a live version at http://www.topiczero.com/ (the direct link is
http://www.topiczero.com:8000/kn_apps/knownews/)
if you want to see it in action.

This client displays news items as they are published, and lets users
discuss events in a streaming 'comments' section on the right. The
events are not RSS/XML format - a scheduled script does the rss parse &
re-posts the metadata in a simpler format.

This client uses a few known topics that are identified with the
dmoz.org taxonomy location that made the most sense at the time. This is
shown at the top of the page (viewing
/dmoz.org/News/By_Subject/Information_Technology/Internet/ for example.)
Some news items don't have a description, which makes for a terse page
of links.

I also have a script file that pulls RSS files and re-posts individual
items into the appropriate KN topics on the server. Its written in
JavaScript & uses the XMLHTTPRequest object from MS. Needless to say,
this is a windows only thing. The .js file has hardcoded rss source URLs
as well as hardcoded KN server URLs. I set up a 2hr scheduled task on
Win2K so this script will update news items at that frequency.

Feel free to pull in or cross-route or cross-post relavant news items -
just check the names of the properties that the client expects within
the events.