I want to display the viewer's name in my application. But something is going wrong and the name is not displayed... the code is as follows: <?xmlversion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Module> <ModulePrefs title="TesterFris - Show Name"> <Require feature="opensocial-0.8" /> <Require feature="dynamic-height" /> </ModulePrefs> <Content t...
Hi, I'm creating a little social network in Rails, where people can add eachother as a friend. I have created a model called 'user', which contains, e-mail, strong md5 hash with salt of password etc... My question is: how do I create something like an option to add another user as a friend. Is it possible to have something like has_man...
What do you all think are the best resources for adding a "friendship" system to your rails social networking sites? The main three I have found: Self-Referential Associations - Railscast acts_as_network has_many_friends However i find that the railscast one tends to be a bit simplistic, and a lack of implementation documentation for t...
Hello, I did do some googling and searching on this site but did not find exactly what I was looking for. I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right direction here. I'm an ASP.NET/SQL Server developer and would like to develop a (intially) basic social networking site (gasp). Before I start from scratch with a blank solution in ...
Hi I have this problem. Given a users table that consists of users' username in a social network and friends table that contain a user's name and a user's friendname like below... username friendname John Thomas Chris James ... I'm trying to write an SQL statement that will if a user is in my network. In other words i...
I plan to make an pretty big application on Facebook. Would it be a wiser choice to get the code working on any hosted site before actually modifying it to be used in FB? or would it be too much of a pain to make the code compatible with FB? ...
I am a relatively new programmer; a bachelors in CS, about 2 years out of college, working mostly with .NET in C#. I am fairly fluent with SQL interaction/scripting, and have done a little work with ASP.NET (mostly maintaining an existing site). I'm interested in starting a website in my free time, the closest thing I can describe to i...
What's a good design pattern to find my app's users' friends (facebook, linkedIn, twitter), etc who are also configured with my app? Eg, my party app has party organizers. The organizers add party people by name/email. Later a party person logs in via Facebook. I want to show her which of her friends will also be at the party. Should I...
What technologies should I use when designing for a large social website (with a lot of transactions, like twitter)? using open source solutions - database - webserver - os ...
Hello there, I am currently developing an opensocial gadget and got some troubles with creating an activity notice. After submitting a form I want a new activity to show up for my friends/contacts using this function of mine: function create_activity() { console.log("invoke create activity"); var data = {}; data[opensocial.Activ...
Hello, I have chosen diploma work in university. It's a mini social network. But now I am really stuck with which technology I should stick. I am average at C++ ISAPI web services development, below average PHP(had few projects with it) and new to Ruby and its framework RAILS. I have a deadline 1.5 month to develop it(about 5 hours ever...
We want to implement a "News feed" where a user can see messages broadcasted by her friends, sorted with newest message first. But the feed should reflect changes in her friends list. (If she adds new friends, messages from those should be included in the feed, and if she removes friends their messages should not be included.) If we use ...
I would like to know if there is any easy way to rank blog articles by counting how many times they have been retweeted / digg'ed / buzz'ed and if there is an existing api for it. The idea would be to keep important 'stories' at the top of the blog timeline. ...
Hi, I intend to draw a directed graph (node-oriented). The nodes in the graph are dynamically generated. I am wondering if there's any good js library out there that solves my problem. Edges and weights need to be custom configured. Thanks, Deepak. ...
Hi I am planning to design a social networking site (like orkut) asp.net mvc.I am stuck in database design.Anyone provide me the resource for that one. Thanks in Advance. ...
I know you cant do that with the Facebook API. Does OpenSocial allow me to do that? ...
As a part of my final year university project I am designing a social networking website targeted mainly to older users. I was wondering what accessibility and usability issues should be taken into account when creating a website for such users, apart from obvious ones - such as bigger font, compatibility with current standards, straight...
What kind of framework/tools do you guys have experience with that are useful for rapid development with limited resources of a niche social network that doesn't have to scale too much? Preferably in PHP base. ...
I want users to receive 'points' for completing various tasks in my application - ranging from tasks such as tagging objects to making friends. I havn't yet found a Django application that simplifies this. At the moment I'm thinking that the best way to accumulate points is that each user action creates the equivalent of a "stream item"...
I can not understand the difference. ...