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Re: Idea: Grails based open source project
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Additionally, it'd be interesting to develop some new taglibs and
widgets for things like tag clouds, google maps mashups, dedicated
services wrapper for digg, delicious, and such, login / security
scaffolding.
With all these things, Grails could become a nice platform for
experimenting with Web 2.0 ideas and mashups.
On 6/4/07, Griffin, Matt <MGriffin@...> wrote:
> Dmitry,
>
> Just something to think about:
> Digg (or your favorite web 2.0 site) isn't so much a piece of software
> as a community wrapped around a database. To me, cloning reproduces the
> piece of the puzzle with the least value. How about moving a step up
> the chain and creating an entirely new piece of software that uses
> Digg's API (or pligg/rigg/figg) to do something interesting with the
> content that's already there. That way you get both a showcase for
> Grails and more total value for the community.
>
> Best of luck!
>
> -Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitriy Kopylenko [mailto:dmitriy.kopylenko@...]
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 1:20 PM
> To: grails_user
> Subject: [grails-user] Idea: Grails based open source project
>
> Hello Grails community. I just had an idea. How about an open source
> Grails project to create a Digg clone? I think it would be cool to
> create an open source version of one of the most popular concepts of web
> 2.0 era and it would serve as a great "showcase" for Grails, and last
> but not least it should be fun :-)
>
> I'm aware of a similar effort in PHP: http://www.pligg.com/ but it's
> more of a CMS than simply a digg clone.
>
> What do you guys/gals think?
>
> Cheers,
> Dmitriy.
>
>
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widgets for things like tag clouds, google maps mashups, dedicated
services wrapper for digg, delicious, and such, login / security
scaffolding.
With all these things, Grails could become a nice platform for
experimenting with Web 2.0 ideas and mashups.
On 6/4/07, Griffin, Matt <MGriffin@...> wrote:
> Dmitry,
>
> Just something to think about:
> Digg (or your favorite web 2.0 site) isn't so much a piece of software
> as a community wrapped around a database. To me, cloning reproduces the
> piece of the puzzle with the least value. How about moving a step up
> the chain and creating an entirely new piece of software that uses
> Digg's API (or pligg/rigg/figg) to do something interesting with the
> content that's already there. That way you get both a showcase for
> Grails and more total value for the community.
>
> Best of luck!
>
> -Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitriy Kopylenko [mailto:dmitriy.kopylenko@...]
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 1:20 PM
> To: grails_user
> Subject: [grails-user] Idea: Grails based open source project
>
> Hello Grails community. I just had an idea. How about an open source
> Grails project to create a Digg clone? I think it would be cool to
> create an open source version of one of the most popular concepts of web
> 2.0 era and it would serve as a great "showcase" for Grails, and last
> but not least it should be fun :-)
>
> I'm aware of a similar effort in PHP: http://www.pligg.com/ but it's
> more of a CMS than simply a digg clone.
>
> What do you guys/gals think?
>
> Cheers,
> Dmitriy.
>
>
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>
> http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
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>
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Guillaume Laforge
Groovy Project Manager
http://glaforge.free.fr/blog/groovy
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