Re: Drupal, PeopleAggregator and the People's DNS

[Joel De G. <jo...@ta...>]

Also.
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Eve got around to my logo :)

In addition. the filter code is non-optimized, I am going to change that
code to use bitwise shifting to escape a lot of those explode/impodes. I
have been chatting a bit with Adam (author of o'reilly's php cookbook)
who is also on the nyphp mailing list.=20
Anyway, thanks to his suggestions I should have a new version soon that
will be faster.

-joeldg

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 12:44, Marc Canter wrote:
> As our technology spreads around the world =96 it=92s important to keep i=
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> Not just getting people to use them, but also explaining what the
> technologies do, how they=92re used and (most importantly) the benefits
> they=92ll have to everyday humans.
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> That=92s why we name our technologies as close as possible to what they
> do: MediaBand, ServerInTheCloset, PeopleAggregator and People=92s DNS.
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> That=92s also why it=92s important that we maintain separate =91identitie=
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> between these technologies =96 as developers out there may choose to mix
> and match them with the code they already have. =20
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> Not everyone needs a coolio CMS, framework, plumbing platform =96 so we
> need to be able to slice out the PeepAgg code from the Drupal code and
> let folks use it with their code.  Same goes for the pDNS. At the
> install stage =96 we=92ll (eventually) let folks decide which pieces they
> want=85=85
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> But first things first =96 let=92s get it all to work together!
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> So just to be clear =96 these three projects are separate projects, they
> just happen to be given birth within the context of Drupal =96 and god
> dammit Drupal it is!
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> -         Marc
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> P.S. Joel and I have had =91some=92 discussion as to the difference
> between People=92s DNS and the PeopleAggregator.  That hasn=92t been
> entirely resolved, but let=92s leave it at this =93one could CERTAINLY
> imagine other FOAF interfaces using the pDNS =96 while they prefer to
> NOT use the PeepAgg.=94
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> P.P.S. [BTW since I used the ID word above =96 that DOES bring up the
> notion of FOAF for code, certainly FOAF for groups and maybe even one
> day =96 FOAF for all things (i.e. items, products, services, etc.)  Marc
> Smith is doing interesting work like that at Microsoft.  We DO have
> FOAF for groups coming=85=85..]
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joeldg - developer, Intercosmos media group.
http://lucifer.intercosmos.net