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NoseRub DevCamp ‘08 - What was it like?

Our first NoseRub DevCamp was small, but very successfull.

On both days, Dominik and Lance were in Ormigo’s office space and helped enhancing NoseRub. My special thanks goes to Lance who flew in from England - now, that’s what I call commitment

Markus joined us on Saturday and I hope we could tell him a little bit about what the big idea behind NoseRub is.

Also during both days, Daniel was working on NoseRub from his home in Switzerland. Our Chat was a good tool to keep communication alive.

So, what did we achieve? Actually, a lot, as you can see from this list:

• Daniel added OAuth support for our API, although I yet need to learn on how to use it
• Dominik worked on a Wordpress PlugIn for NoseRub
• He also rewrote on how we retrieve data from other servers and so we now use curl when possible instead of file_get_contents() (Dominik said he needs to test this issue further)
• Lance did an excellent job on writing up a description to develop you own NoseRub services and he used this description a lot:
• Support for Blip.tv, Glugg.no, HemiDemi.com, Identi.ca, Disqus.com, Ffffound!, Blippr and Picasa has been added, while support for Plazes has been fixed.
• Instead of uploading a photo, you’re now able to tell NoseRub to use your Gravatar image.
• Lance also made a new Screencast of a tour through NoseRub
• If you want to, you now can enable a generic RSS-Feed of all your updates.
• The RSS-Feed for the public social stream of all users had been fixed.
• An experimental XMPP feed for all public updates has been introduced. If you want to, you can add fullfeed@jabber.identoo.com to access a full feed from preview.noserub.com. There isn’t much happening and the bot only goes online when he has to send something, so please be patient.
• We rewrote how NoseRub handles feeds and now stores every item seperately. This way, we now can look forward to search and a XMPP track-feature like Twitter used to have it.

I might have forgot something, if you’re interested in the details, have a look at the changesets from this weekend.

We plan to release this version sometime next weekend. Until then we probably will make some more changes, but mostly smaller ones.

I think this DevCamp was a great success and I plan on doing another one early 2009 - but that does not mean, that development on NoseRub will halt until then. Quite the opposite! I think everyone in the team is now even more motivated to enhance NoseRub even further.

A final thanks goes to Ormigo who let us use their office and gave us access to their internet connection.