NoseRub

So, NoseRub DevCamp will take place on September 13th to 14th 2008 in Cologne. The location is sponsored by Ormigo, the company I work for. Here's a link on Google Maps

I will try to find more sponsors to cover some costs like drinks and some snacks. Obviously this will depend on how many people will attend.

So please give me a note not later than September 3rd if you will attend here in Cologne, or somewhere else world wide. I will not set up a wiki for registrations, so leave a comment here, or write me an e-mail.

There will be no sleeping within the office, but this hotel is just placed next to our office building. I have no idea how good/bad it is, so this is no recommendation, just a hint, that there is a hotel nearby.

I will set up a new Google Code repository for DevCamp, so that I can give write permissions to that repository for everyone. This way, we can speed up sharing code and don't have too many unverified changes in the main repository.

There are many things to do at the DevCamp, starting by adding new services to NoseRub and improving existing once. But we have a lot of other open issues in our Issue Tracker, some really shamefull like having a password recovery process...

Other things are bigger, like having OAuth for our own API and also being able to act as an OAuth client. This way we could interact with identi.ca, what would really great. Yes, we already could interact with Twitter, but I really don't want to ask users for their service passwords.

We could create widgets to display our lifestreams on our own servers and have PlugIns for several blogging packages like s9y and Wordpress - in fact, work on a Wordpress PlugIn was already started and is waiting for a newer release of NoseRub.

Other things to do are adding the use of HTMLPurifier for any HTML output from third parties, like from RSS-Feeds. This way, we could allow people to add HTML and CSS to their own profile pages, without being in fear of XSS or other malicous code parts. If you're a CakePHP expert and designer, I would love to see a way to have NoseRub itself easily customized when it comes to colors and header graphics.

But the DevCamp is also there for learning how NoseRub works. In means of the software itself and of how the protocol behind it works. I therefore encourage everyone during the DevCamp to monitor our discussion group to help other NoseRubbers out there. We will also re-activate our web absed chat then

The nearer the event gets, the more information will be presented here. So, if any open questions arrives, please let me know: dirk.olbertz (at) gmail.com

PS: Thanks to Alex for the logo. Grab it, if you want to. We also have a PNG and an AI Version available, if you need something else.

In order to end the summer lazyness and actually get some more life back to the project, we will do a NoseRub DevCamp in Cologne, Germany in September.

I already spoke with my bosses at Ormigo and they offered to use the company's rooms for that purpose. The event will take place on the weekend 13th and 14th of September.

The NoseRub DevCamp should not only take place here in Cologne, but although in your very house. That means we will be online via IM all the time, monitor our discussion group and hopefully provide fast feedback.

The goal is to solve some of the tasks in the Issue Tracker, get some more Services into NoseRub and also fix some problems with already existing features.

More information will follow soon, so stay tuned!

NoseRub 0.6 was just released and Identoo.com got that update already. This release contains mainly bugfixes, but also some new services: you can now add your Online IDs from Nintendo Wii, Playstation Network and XBox Live. We also added support for YouTube and Ormigo.

If you have your Profile on Identoo, check it out and see if you can add some more information about you. I'd like to see some of you guys adding me through Playstation Online. Check my profile page out: identoo.com/dirk.olbertz

The new version can be downloaded here.

Has anyone reading this have good contacts to del.icio.us? It seems that del.icio.us blocks requests from Identoo.com, as curl "http://feeds.delicious.com/rss/dirk_olbertz" works fine locally and from different other servers in the UK.

It might be a problem with the Provider I use for my servers. I heard that, at least for email, their IP ranges are on some black lists.

I already contacted del.icio.us' support, but after telling me, that they would forward it to someone else, I did not hear anything and a second reply to that ticket got no response at all.

Right now, even a simple "we blocked you and cannot whitelist your IP" would help me in order to think about the next steps. But rught now, it's just frustating, as users on Identoo.com won't see any updates from their del.ico.us accounts.

So, help is greatly appreciated!

Update: Apparently, fetching del.icio.us feeds is working again. I'm not sure wether this is a temporary thing until I hit some treshold, but if not, I hope this blog post reached someone inside or near del.icio.us, who fixed the problem. If so: thank you!

Right from the beginning of this project, we wanted the following to work:

1. You open an account on Identoo.com and add contacts and web accounts


2. You install NoseRub on your own server and import all your data from the Identoo.com account


3. Afterwards, all the people who added you as a contact, will seamlessly get your new profile URL

With NoseRub 0.6 we're now able to do this!

First of all, you export all your data on Identoo.com. You will find this tools in the menu Settings and there at Manage:


You will receive a JSON file with all your contacts, accounts and profile data. On your own server, you then simply import this file:


NoseRub then parses that file and displays, what you're about to import. If you confirm, all those contacts, web accounts and profile data is imported. Afterwards, you can use your new NoseRub installation, just as you did on Identoo.com.

In order to tell all your contacts, that you moved your profile, you then go back to Identoo.com and set a redirect to your new profile:


You now even can delete your account on Identoo and the redirect will still work.

We have to admit, that the whole redirect thing is currently not 100% perfect. We will change that and then, all the people who have you as contact, will not only be redirected to your new account, but also see your new profile url as their contact.

So, what means your data to you?