Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

It works for me.

6 (31.6%)

It does not work for me.

1 (5.3%)

I'd be willing to help test it.

6 (31.6%)

I'm not interested in testing it.

1 (5.3%)

I might be willing to help test it.

5 (26.3%)

Total Members Voted: 14

[Anvilfolk]

I didn't say how much I appreciate the gesture though - that is incredibly awesome of you

[Angle]

Eh, Im not doing anything with it, and you've already put in a ton of work.

[Fniff]

So how has this been coming along?

[Angle]

I've got a very basic java client working, and am now working on the web client. I've got most of the display down, except that text wrapping in SVG seems to be a herculean undertaking, and the force layout needs some fine tuning.

[Angle]

Alright, I found a way to get the text wrapping working. Now I'm going to mess with the size of the post display and the force layout behaviour uuntil it's not such a tangled mess.

[Anvilfolk]

This is cool! You're using SVG, right? I'll probably have a look at whatever you came up with! Is there an actual feature, or did you have to code your own?

[Angle]

I found one coded by someone else, called d3plus. I still had to mess with it, but not too much.

[Angle]

Alright, so I was delayed a week while I had my laptop fixed, but I'm back in business now. I've refined the force layout, so it doesn't put everything on top of each other. Next I'm going to see i I can figure out a way to make posts move so that replies are below the posts they address.

[Anvilfolk]

Try to make it extensible! That's the kind of thing where different people might prefer to look at it different ways. Some people might organise by weight, some by date, some might want earliest/most important in the middle and spanning out, others might prefer a top-to-bottom tree-like structure! Should be configurable

[Angle]

Yeah, I'll work on that too - but for now, I just want to make a working alpha so I can get other people interested.

[Angle]

Alright, I go the force layout working more or less as intended. You no longer need to spend time untangling the bloody thing, at least.

[Angle]

And now I've added functionality for dynamically adding posts to the client display. It's still a little buggy though. Here's a screenshot of what I've got so far -

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Angle]

Aaaand the server is down again. If it's too much trouble, I could see about setting up my own version.

Edit: And they're up again. was that your doing, or was the internet just being difficult?

[Anvilfolk]

It's usually on 24/7, must've been an internet hiccup. It's basically a laptop that I'm redirecting some traffic into. I also use it as an SVN server for other stuff, so I'm gonna mostly have it on anyway.

By the way, I've been talking to people who use MongoDB, and it seems that it might be a much better fit for Agora, since it stores graph-like structures. This might make it easier to perform complex graph queries.

[dorf]

neo4j might be of interest to you as well.

There is a myriad of NoSQL databases available now, though.
I've had an excellent experience using Blueprints for my master's degree. It abstracts and decouples from the underlying NoSQL storages so that you can easily switch databases before you settle.
Of course they also expose the underlying storage instance in case you want to access to low-level or DB-specific features.

Note that you will lose normalization and the convenience of SQL (if that is important to you) when switching to NoSQL.