[Facebooker-talk] Towards a 1.0 release

Mon Jan 21 01:46:07 EST 2008

I'll set that up tomorrow. I can't give shell access until I free up  
another machine, but we can at least get started.

Mike

On Jan 20, 2008, at 4:40 PM, BJ Clark wrote:

> I'll reiterate, I'd be happy to get a copy of radiant up and going if
> Mike(or anyone else) wants to provide the hosting.
>
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> On Jan 20, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Shawn Van Ittersum wrote:
>
>> I can contribute to a tutorial.  We just need a web site / CMS to
>> publish the text... :)  The most important thing missing from the
>> current docs is how to access the current session, which David
>> Clements showed me how to do last week.  The rest is pretty easy to
>> grasp from the RDoc, but I can contribute usage examples for the
>> common functions.
>>
>> Shawn
>>
>> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:06:36 +0000, Jon Gilbraith wrote:
>>> Hey folks,
>>>
>>> Re: tutorials, I had planned to try and put together something a
>>> while
>>> back but since then had to reprioritise my projects so haven't been
>>> able to keep up on things.  If nobody else is able to help out in
>>> this
>>> area before then, I hope to be able to give it some time in late
>>> Feb /
>>> early March latest and would be happy to help out then.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>> On 18 Jan 2008, at 16:32, David Newbury wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey, Y'all.
>>>>
>>>> I'm Shane's designer friend, David.  I am willing to work on a
>>>> design
>>>> and user interface for the site.  I am currently using Radiant  
>>>> for a
>>>> small project--i'm comfortable enough with it that I think it's a
>>>> good
>>>> choice for the site.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know what the next steps are.
>>>>
>>>> - David Newbury
>>>> (773)-547-2272
>>>> www.workergnome.com
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:38 PM, "David Clements" <digidigo at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I can jump in and do some documentation if no one else is on it
>>>>> yet?
>>>>>
>>>>> Dave
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 16, 2008 6:42 PM, Shane Vitarana <shanev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hey Mike-
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can help with getting it working with apps with non-facebook
>>>>>> sections.  I'm working on fixing the issue with the facebook
>>>>>> relative
>>>>>> root being appended to non-facebook assets.  I'd like to fix up
>>>>>> routing before a 1.0 release as well.  I think I might be able to
>>>>>> get
>>>>>> a designer for the site.  I'll keep you posted.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Shane
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jan 16, 2008 5:35 PM, Mike Mangino  
>>>>>> <mmangino at elevatedrails.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hey everybody.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've been using Facebooker on several projects over the last few
>>>>>>> months and feel like it is really starting to mature. I'd like  
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> push
>>>>>>> towards a 1.0 release within the next month. I'd really like
>>>>>>> everybody's input on what still needs to be done, as well as  
>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>> help
>>>>>>> in wrapping things up. I've created a list of things that still
>>>>>>> need
>>>>>>> to be done on Facebooker. Can you guys take a look and send me
>>>>>>> any
>>>>>>> additions? I plan on spending next week looking at projects with
>>>>>>> both
>>>>>>> Facebook and non-facebook sections. I'll try to clean up the
>>>>>>> outstanding issues in that area.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Before a 1.0 release, I think we need to:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) Document all helpers and major methods.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Most helpers have documentation, but it is a little sparse. I'd
>>>>>>> love
>>>>>>> some help adding rdoc to our helper methods along with any other
>>>>>>> method that is externally usable.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2) Implement object creation for all FQL types.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Right now, we can only handle FQL queries for a few different
>>>>>>> types.
>>>>>>> We should support all of the available types. You can add  
>>>>>>> support
>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>> new types by editing parser.rb. Search for Fql there to see how
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> works.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 3) Create a website for Facebooker
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I registered Facebooker-api.com and am willing to provide  
>>>>>>> hosting
>>>>>>> hardware and bandwidth (through Elevated Rails) I would like to
>>>>>>> use
>>>>>>> Rubyforge for the issue tracker and mailing lists, but I can
>>>>>>> create a
>>>>>>> Radiant or Mephisto instance for hosting the main website. Is
>>>>>>> anyone
>>>>>>> interested in helping out here? I have no UI development skills,
>>>>>>> so a
>>>>>>> nice UI would be appreciated as well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 4) Create a getting started tutorial
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Unfortunately, there is no good tutorial for how to setup a
>>>>>>> Facebook
>>>>>>> app with Facebooker. It would be nice to have at least a basic
>>>>>>> getting
>>>>>>> started guide.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So what have I missed? Is there anything else that we need to  
>>>>>>> do?
>>>>>>> Does
>>>>>>> anyone have any preferences about how to run the website? We
>>>>>>> (Elevated
>>>>>>> Rails) are using Radiant already, so that is easy for me to
>>>>>>> setup.
>>>>>>> I'm
>>>>>>> open to other options.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for your help and suggestions.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mike
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
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>>>>>>> http://www.elevatedrails.com
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>>>>>>
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