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I have a client who has a web site that requires membership. He wants to allow his users to find other users with whom they might have a existing friendship/relationship on a social networking site (Facebook, Twitter, etc).
Does anybody have any experience with this type of problem? If so, what to packages/APIs did you use? Right now I'm evaluating Janrain and Gigya, but we're still in the decision-making phase so I'm open to other solutions. This is mostly a JSP shop, but again, we're open.
Thanks in advance,
Chip
Both are good, and come with best practices. Each one has a documentation page. I prefer Gigya since it's easy to learn and the flow is more logical.
Janrain Documetation
Gigya Documentation
I assume you mean visitors should have the ability to find existing friendships before their decision to register (ie. they'll be more inclined to register if they see [x] number of friends are already using the site).
If you're just interfacing with Facebook, try using their Facepile plugin. It's a quick way for non-registered users to see which Facebook friends are using the application (assuming a valid FB session).
If you're interested in multiple networks, Gigya is a really good solution. One feature you might find useful is their getFriendsInfo() method. If you set the siteUsersOnly parameter to true, Gigya will only return social network friends who are also registered users of the site.
Regardless of your choice, one piece of advice is to make sure visitors understand they aren't registering for the site just by signing-in with their social network account and checking for friends. For some users, this distinction isn't always clear.
Hope some of this helps.
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I have created a Chrome extension that I would like to give away for free, but provide a "tip jar" on the extension's options page where people can, if they want, opt send me a small amount of money to show their appreciation. I've looked through the documentation for one-time payments and Google Wallet for Digital Goods, but nothing I see there seems like a fit. It seems like the only options listed are:
Free extension, no payment mechanism: Not desirable because I want to offer people the option to pay something.
Paid extension: No, I want it to be free.
Free trial: This will make people think that the extension is limited in some fashion unless they pay, which it isn't.
In-app purchases: Same as above. I'd rather that my extension not be marked as having in-app purchases, since there is no limitation that you have to pay to remove, and the only thing paying gets you is good karma.
Is there a built-in Chrome Web Store option that is suitable for what I'm trying to do? If not, can Google Wallet be leveraged in some way to provide "tip jar" functionality, or will I have to find some other payment mechanism?
A lot of developers implement voluntary tips via PayPal donation buttons.
One could simply add the button to their options page. E.g.: [1] [2]
Cautionary tale: PayPal can, in principle, throw a hissy fit over collected funds, but as long as you don't rake in thousands you should be okay.
Please note: Fundraisers that are not verified nonprofits will be asked to demonstrate how their donations will be used, once they raise more than $10,000
Patreon is currently gaining popularity. I know at least one extension (Enhanced Steam) that went that route.
You may use ko-fi for this purpose: https://ko-fi.com/
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I have an applicaion, that can best be described 'loosly' as a scripting application, primarly designed for part time developers, engineers and sciences types with a VB.NET background (can theoretically do C#).
This has been a long three year hobby and I am about 95% complete. I am planning to make the applicaiton freely available for most (if not all) uses, but I do not want to open source it (at least right now).
I was looking for an online place to post and collaborate with some folks for feedback, to get some testing done and finalize the application (my wife wants me to be DONE with it). My searches online have revealed many spaces, but all seem to be open-source spaces that require release of the source code, or just aplace to post 'free' completed software. I am looking for the collaboration part.
Can anyone point me to a such a space that does not require providing the open source code (if it even exits)?
I think you can use most of the collaboration places without actually uploading any source to the repository.
I've seen a bunch of project on Google Code Hosting that have no source (usually its then on GitHub) and just use the Google Hosting for bug-tracking and collaboration.
I created a BitBucket account. Looks like it might work. Many of the sites require you to choose an open source license before you even create a space. BitBucket does not.
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Is there any open source user-guide type creation software available? Or is it best to use wiki type systems? We want to be able to create user guides on the fly through a web front end and accessible on the net. Or is this best achieved using Wikis?
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I use MediaWiki for a user-guide and help page at my company, and it works really well!
Create custom namespaces for different parts, and if you want to have access controls you can create different groups.
The extensions are great, because you can always find one to do anything you want (ie. print to PDF for an offline copy)
I'd strongly recommend using Wikis. As long as your chosen one's markup covers your needs, it's ideal for user guides.
This post is not 100% on topic - it's about creating user manual for the workplace (as opposed to the software) - but many ideas are still worth reading.
This is a good guide for using Wiki in knowledge sharing.
http://www.futurechanges.org/patterns/
We have used Wikispaces.com to create manuals and guides for several projects. Especially if you are a non-profit with a K-12 educational mission, then current setup for a Wikispace includes Private Projects so you can evolve documentation and make it public when it's appropriate to do so.
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We want to implement chat on our website so that users can communicate with each other.
Our general requirements are:
It should be rendered on our web pages, but it could be rendered in an IFrame or something like that. The users of our website are part of the general public, not internal teams, so we don't want them to have to install a separate app.
Users should be able to use their existing account with our website and not have to create a new account for the chat tool. If we partner with someone, like Meebo, we don't want to have to share a significant amount of our user information for partner.
Code under an public license, but preferably not an open-source project using the GPL license, but BSD or MIT license (and probably others) is okay. An inexpensive product with a non-public license may be okay as well.
We want to get this implemented pretty quickly, and we don't really want to build our own solution.
Has anyone worked with or familiar with a solution that would satisfy some or all of these these requirements? Any other ideas/suggestions?
Thanks.
There are quite a few. As for open source try
https://blueimp.net/ajax/
If you need a heavy duty chat server with web based extension look at
http://www.igniterealtime.org
We currently used this internally in a Windows enviornment. We had some issues getting it to work with Active Directory so we went for the mySQL installation.
Why not shell out a few bucks for (sometimes it's cheaper NOT to re-invent the wheel)
http://www.aspnetajaxchat.com
Hope that helps
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I'm in the process of setting up a new website which would greatly benefit from having user-forums.
Since I already have user accounts, and profile details, stored away it seems that I'd benefit from choosing an open-source forum package which I could modify so that logins were tested against my existing database.
Right now all my site is Perl-based, and looking around I don't see many great Perl forums - the only obvious one I could find which is featureful is yabb - but that is written to authenticate against flat files and to be frank the code is nasty.
If I need to use a PHP solution then so be it, but first are there any simple forums that are written in perl that you'd suggest? I'd expect to have different forum-groups and nominate particular users as moderators. More than that I don't need, just basic threading and an attractive appearance.
Really simple forums are often really insecure forums. If you're determined to use perl, a major web forum doesn't come to mind, and if your competent in security I'd say roll your own. You could even release it to the open source community to help people like you. I know there are several great PHP ones out there that aren't so insecure an rather well developed.
I seem to remember that Drupal had a reasonable fit as a module.