#indiewebcamp 2012-09-17

2012-09-17 UTC
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jancborchardt
hey folks! We just started our donation campaign to raise money for someone to full-time curate our Terms of Service rating site http://tos-dr.info ! Check it out at http://www.indiegogo.com/terms-of-service-didnt-read?a=545071 and thank you all! cc aaronpk dietrich brianloveswords benward
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barnabywalters
hey aaronpk, have you shared your #tag-retaining note shortening function anywhere? It'd be really useful, especially as an addition to #cassis
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@BarnabyWalters
Let's see how well auto @-naming works with syndication: @barnabywalters @indiewebcamp
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barnabywalters
tommorris: I've been playing around with a simulated B2G (firefox os) phone recently
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tommorris
I'm thinking that when my little toy Ferocity gets good, I might have it so that when you install it, it pops out an Android APK.
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tommorris
but then I'm a Java-loving freakazoid who gets off on XML files.
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barnabywalters
what is an APK?
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tommorris
basically Android's version of a .exe
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tommorris
just a web view container with some custom settings and stuff
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barnabywalters
can android do the iOS save-to-home-screen thing for web apps?
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tommorris
no, you just pop a bookmark on your home screen
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barnabywalters
the thing I like about b2g web apps is (provided you have fallbacks for mozilla device APIs) they can be used on iOS as well
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tommorris
http://imgur.com/dno3Q - got ferocity on my second home screen
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tommorris
tapping it just opens it in a tab in Firefox Mobile
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barnabywalters
so you have a samsung galaxy s2? that is the model I am considering getting hold of to instal b2g on
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barnabywalters
s/instal/install
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Loqi
barnabywalters meant to say: so you have a samsung galaxy s2? that is the model I am considering getting hold of to install b2g on
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tommorris
barnabywalters: yep, and I've hacked it a bit to make it look like the HTC Sense UI, which I quite like
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@BarnabyWalters
Okay, so I got a #statusnet install up and running. It's amazing software. #indieweb #fsw
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@BarnabyWalters
Other @indiewebcamp people: let me know if you're having #statusnet interop problems, I'll try subscribing and show you the logs
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barnabywalters
as the Loqi twitter pulls are saying, I set up a statusnet server so I can get at the logs and try to figure out what's going wrong for remote subscriptions
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barnabywalters
let me know if you're having problems and I'll try subscribing, look in the logs/at your feed and see if I can diagnose the problem
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tommorris
I did look at identi.ca and have no idea how exactly one subscribes to a feed
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barnabywalters
tommorris: in Profile, on the right, under following, there's a "remote" button
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barnabywalters
once you get it working it's actually an awesome feed subscriber
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tommorris
I do know that the PubSubHubbub thing has been working great
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barnabywalters
tommorris: well, to a certain degree. aaronpk and I have had a nightmarish time getting SN to reliably subscribe to our feeds
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barnabywalters
but PuSH does work, and well
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tommorris
I click on '+remote' and it just gives me a JS alert() saying "error"
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barnabywalters
aaronpk: your feed is currently not PuSH-subscribable as there are XML mismatched tags: http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Faaronparecki.com%2Fnotes.atom
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barnabywalters
tommorris: seriously? on identi.ca?
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barnabywalters
have you reported it?
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barnabywalters
probably a good idea :)
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barnabywalters
works fine for me
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tommorris
lemme try it in a sensible browser rather than a firefox beta
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barnabywalters
ah, that *could* be the problem
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barnabywalters
sounds like FF beta breaks quite a lot
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barnabywalters
s/lot/lot of js
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tommorris
was having some weird JavaScript issues on wikipedia too
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Loqi
barnabywalters meant to say: sounds like FF beta breaks quite a lot of js
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tommorris
nope, weird, getting it on release version too
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barnabywalters
not tried identica in FF, I'll give it a go
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tommorris
ah, works in Chrome
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barnabywalters
works for me in FF too
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barnabywalters
I'll try subscribing to you on identica and my own instance
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barnabywalters
okay, subscribed to you three times, so you should be able to see some data in the hub debug if you couldn't before
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tommorris
shall post something.
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tommorris
though not right now
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tommorris
combination of wikipolitics and food
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barnabywalters
okay, I'll keep an eye out for the PuSH pings
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barnabywalters
now I've got it and auto twitter syndication working I'm going to do a screencast demonstrating it
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barnabywalters
hey brennannovak, how's it going?
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brennannovak
barnabywalters: hey there! Going pretty well
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barnabywalters
just wondering if you could give any pointers about where to start solving the broken profile URL bug in SI
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brennannovak
barnabywalters: ahh yes... we need to write a method that functions similar to profile_image in the Social_igniter.php library
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barnabywalters
looks through source
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brennannovak
similar in that the existing function handle profile image cases and the later should handle if the "people" app is installed
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barnabywalters
so profile_image can be used to get the URL of a users image or set it to a new one
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brennannovak
yes
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barnabywalters
right, I'm going to add docblocks to these functions as I go along
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brennannovak
Oh great!
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barnabywalters
it'd be a silly task to try to do all at once, but doing them as I go along is a no-brainer
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barnabywalters
and essential reference for myself :)
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brennannovak
Nice
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brennannovak
Also, I've been meaning to check your installer thing more thoroughly as some quirks have come up with other people (and myself) trying to use it
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barnabywalters
okay, let me know what you find
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barnabywalters
I've only tested it on my local/remote servers in safari
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brennannovak
perhaps could you notate down all of your server settings and such? It's mainly been permissions issues with creating the config files
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barnabywalters
ah, interesting
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brennannovak
you tested it in MAMP right? My one friend was trying in his MAMP and couldn't get past the first step
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barnabywalters
I'll give it another go to make sure it's working for me, and note down my setup
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barnabywalters
can you get people who are having problems to create new github issues?
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barnabywalters
it'd be v. useful
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brennannovak
Absolutely!
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barnabywalters
fab. I'm going through and doing another test install
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barnabywalters
I need to get more familiar with unix permissions before I purposefully mess up my permissions to see if I can get some errors
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brennannovak
heh
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barnabywalters
hm, I'm getting exactly the same problems I *thought* I'd fixed with the update
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barnabywalters
okay, I did a fresh pull from the git repo on my server and the error reporting is working fine
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barnabywalters
but things still freeze on "Creating Database"
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barnabywalters
well, I'll see what I can do about that tomorrow. Getting later here. Goodnight!
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Loqi
goodnight!
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