Emad Ibrahim - Latest Comments in Yonkly – Open Source Twitter

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Got a big Idea — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:35:50 -0000

nice work man! i just wish it was in php : (

thanks for sharing

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Duke — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:58:45 -0000

nice youtube posting feature you have added i want to include the same feature on my site is there a way that i can go and learn how to do this or are you able to post a tutorial so people can learn how to do this it seems like an easy way of letting users add videos to your website.

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Duke — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:45:42 -0000

How did you display a list of member in the admin page cause I'm trying to do the same prosedure but mine returns a list with only usernames no email or photo

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Duke — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:39:27 -0000

Nice features you have added i have one quetions i want to create the same feature on the admin page where it lists the registered users and there roles how to i do this cause when i do it it only lists users and not with there avatars

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Emad — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:08:25 -0000

Please ask support question over here
http://groups.google.com/gr...
Thanks.

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stuvie — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:04:49 -0000

everytime i try to upload an image it shows status error code 500
does any know how to fix this

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selaromdotnet — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:12:15 -0000

sounds good to me... mvc seems to be popping up more and more. I think it'll be a while before it's ubiquitous, HOWEVER, I am certainly always up to learning new things!

thanks for your input

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Emad — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:54:09 -0000

Because I wanted to learn. I have more control over the HTML generation.
No view state. Easier to unit test. better seperation between
presentation and code.
I haven't tried converting to a webform but my guess is that it won't be
easy. It will probably be easier for you to learn MVC than try to convert
it.

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selaromdotnet — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:23:33 -0000

may i ask, why did you use mvc instead of web forms? how difficult do you think it would be for someone to convert your project to use web forms instead of mvc?

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Emad — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:05:26 -0000

If you are refering to the hosted solution at yonkly.com, yes you can turn
off/on images from the admin control panel, if you are the network admin.
If you are referring to the open source version then it is not an option but
can easily be added - after all it is open source :)

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dukon21 — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:11:32 -0000

Is someone able to make yonkly post only messages just like twitter without posting images

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Emad — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:18:16 -0000

The source code used in hokie talk has not been opened yet. As for the
problems with compilation, try posting the question to the codeplex
discussion at http://www.codeplex.com/yon...
Thanks.

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dbonchabo — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:35:47 -0000

Hey eibrahim i tryed doing exactly that to added a new web config file and used the web.sample.config file that came with the code but when i run the project there is tones of errors how can i fix this and do you know how i can get the source code that was used on hokie talkie thank you

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Emad — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:16:31 -0000

It's not hard at all, there are services out there that provide sms gateways
that would post a message to web page as an HTTP POST that I can then take
and insert into the database. The only problem is cost. These services are
not free and every message costs money. There are some out there that are
ad-supported but I don't want to go that route for now.

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JC — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:58:57 -0000

How easy would it be to implement sending messages from mobile devices?

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Emad — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:47:17 -0000

You need visual studio 2008 and mvc framework preview 4 from codeplex. I
haven't upgraded the code to us epreview 5 yet but the beta is coming out
soon, so I might as well wait a couple of weeks.

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raj — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:07:51 -0000

How do I compile I am a newbie database stuff I can do

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Emad — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:48:24 -0000

You will need to get the source code, change the settings in the web.config
file, compile the project, create the database and deploy.
-Emad

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Jordan Fried — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:42:15 -0000

can someone please help me install this thing?

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Emad Ibrahim — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:45:14 -0000

Source code is available over here

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AzzamS — Sat, 17 May 2008 14:41:36 -0000

@Emad: After leaving the comment I went back to Opera and it seemed to work. So do not go out of your way in this area unless a few others identify issues with the opera browser, at this stage seems fine.

Simply put you can not have a version of the that collects users for an individual server and attempt any kind of resolve, it will not be practical. You could offer a version that is open source that a community driven site would want specifically for its own niche to build its own list of users, for sure. But there would have to a be custom version that maybe works using OpenID only, each user having ownership to their ID (character extension could be given to cater for the length of the OpenID, i.e. 150 characters and not 140 to make responses such as @claimID/azzam ....). The custom scripts would communicate with each server.

The question about each server talking with each other to display the messages realtime you got me there!

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Emad Ibrahim — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:06:41 -0000

@azzam: I didn't test in opera. Being a 1-developer team, I figured targeting 90% of the user base should be ok. I actually use a jquery plugin for the reply popup, so my guess is that the plugin is the one not working with opera :)

Someone made a similar suggestion about creating a distributed twitter-like platform. But that is one tough problem... I haven't had time to really think about it but just dealing with data on multiple servers and authentication alone would cause you a headache...

So let's say we have server a and server b. Each has its own version of the database and a different set of users. How would you deal with user a on server wanting to friend user b on server b? Sure you can server a talk to server b but then what if we have 20 servers?

Or another scenario, user a leaves a message while on server a, how will this message show on the other servers? Having every server query every server on every request would just not work...

Eventually one server/provider would be the most popular and you will end up with the same problem of a centralized twitter system... It's kind of similar to OpenID, sure there are several providers, but in a few months/years, 80% of the users will be with 20% of the providers - probably one of the bigger players (yahoo or aol).

How would you handle upgrading the servers and multiple versions of the protocol floating around?

A more important question, why would anyone bother hosting one on there servers? I mean, what is the financial benefit to them?

Obviously, I haven't thought this through but it is not a simple problem...

I would love to hear what others think. Any ideas?

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AzzamS — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:28:55 -0000

Hi,

Wicked stuff.

Was unable to see the comment reply in Opera, would not open ??

Food for thought, Can this be used as a decentralized version of Twitter? This is what is being searched for and an open source solution is the only feasible option from my perspective.
Not what everyones thoughts are on how this can be done, there has been wider discussion on techcrunch regarding this:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2...

comments on the timeline can be shared on the host of the individual servers that upload the script and results of the public timeline can be displayed on your website i.e. mysite.com/yonkly/public-ti..., it would be a case of publising the public timeline link in our sites/blogs, etc. Theres no need for a central public timeline it can be viewed on any of these sites that hosts it by having the script uploaded, Like RSS feeds.

We could look at minimising the amount of space that each site takes up to host public timeline and a method to distribute the timeline equally. The more that sign up to upload the script to the server the simpler it gets to distribute.

Just thinking out load

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Emad Ibrahim — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:47:32 -0000

@A'braham Barakhyahu I have never used castle and don't know much about it... Good luck getting comfortable with MVC... I think you will like it. By the way, your twitter link doesn't work - you can find me at http://twitter.com/eibrahim

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A'braham Barakhyahu — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:13:24 -0000

Fantastic. Not sure how similiar castle is to asp mvc, but it would be interesting to see how it can be implemented in both. Just started using Twitter TWO days ago (twitter.com/barakhyahu). Still would have liked to think of this before you did. :) Kidding, great work. I'm going to sign up.

I'd love to help, but me thinks I need to get comfortable with asp mvc first....