http://noserub.com/blog Blogging about NoseRub and Social Networks Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:10:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After Facebook buying FriendFeed, some questions arose wether NoseRub could be an open and free alternative to FriendFeed. While NoseRub never was designed to imitate FriendFeed (in fact I got aware of FriendFeed a while after I started coding on NoseRub), you can do a lot of those things in NoseRub, ... http://noserub.com/blog/2009/08/23/can-noserub-replace-friendfeed/ We now have our own official IRC room: irc.freenode.net/noserub. Thanks to Tane for handing it over to me. http://noserub.com/blog/2009/08/22/noserub-irc-channel/ The upcoming version of NoseRub will contain its own AdManagement. Why is there a need for that? When you set up a social network, you probably want to put ads on some pages. We just added support for that to our widget system for the new themes. In a template it ... http://noserub.com/blog/2009/07/28/admanagement-built-in/ Up to today, if you wanted to create a new Service for NoseRub (like Flickr, delicious, Reddit, Twitpic, etc.), you would have to write a nasty SQL statement to make this Service available to the NoseRub installation. This was not only source for many potential fatal mistakes, but also a mess ... http://noserub.com/blog/2009/07/21/add-new-services-without-changing-the-database/ For the ones who are not only interested in NoseRub itself, but also how it uses the web framework CakePHP, there is now a blog available, where I want to share the things I learn/discover during my development of NoseRub: The Cake Bakery - Recipes for Development with CakePHP http://noserub.com/blog/2009/07/06/cakephp-specific-blog/ A big Thank you goes to Björn Acker, who provided the Flash module for enabling NoseRub to directly upload photos taken with your Webcam. This works for your own Lifestream, but also for the new Group-Feature. It still will take some time until we can release NoseRub 0.9, but with the ... http://noserub.com/blog/2009/07/01/webcam-upload/ We're way behind any schedule we set ourselves for NoseRub 0.9 :-( This is mainly because we underestimated the amount of work that needs to be done for introducing the new theme. And of course, because NoseRub is driven by people who do this in their spare time. All this resulted in ... http://noserub.com/blog/2009/06/18/noserub-devnights/ Due to an unwanted deletion of the complete database of NoseRub's Blog, I went for reinstalling and moving from S9Y to Wordpress. I hope to find some of the old articles somewhere in the deepest corners of the internet and will add them once I found them... http://noserub.com/blog/2009/05/31/noserub-blog-reinstalled/ NoseRub 0.8.2 is now available for download. The major change is, that you now am able to log in to any NoseRub installation with your OpenID and comment on social stream entries or even mark them as favorite. As your NoseRub profile URL (eg. http://identoo.com/dirk.olbertz is an OpenID, you now can ... http://noserub.com/blog/2009/03/23/noserub-082-released/ Poolie just published a nice preview of the upcoming design changes for NoseRub. Beside the beautiful design, the underlying theme system will be the biggest change. There is no detailed roadmap for that release, but it pretty much will be the 0.9 version and it is very likely we will have ... http://noserub.com/blog/2009/03/09/noserub-re-design-preview/