Archive for November, 2007

A PeerAware tutorial

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Lately I have had about a hundred people downloading PeerAware a day. But not many of these ever visited the public workspaces I have running, and too often never run the program again. After testing some unsuspecting souls it became apparent that some things that were obvious and simple for me was quite difficult to grasp for new users. To help improve upon the uptake I have worked on a tutorial showing how to do the most basic things. My intention is to let this be part of an introduction screen that displays the first time you start PeerAware. Comments are always appreciated!

Tutorial: An introduction to using PeerAware.

The strangest thing is that for some reason the test page has problems running under the Opera web browser. Which means that I will have to look at that on monday, since my day-time job is the network code at Opera Software. It does however work after reloading the page a couple of times in Opera as well.

For creating the tutorial I used wink, a great utility that really impressed me with ease of use and power.

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PeerAware OpenSocial WorkSpace

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

The first PeerAware OpenSocial WorkSpace is now available. It is a simple modification of the OpenSocial Container Google released a week ago, and the source code is available here. A workspace is also available for testing this in the workspace list when you start PeerAware, and will just display friends listed in a workspace, along with information about yourself. As soon as Google updates their reference platform with the rest of the API’s I will add these as well to the PeerAware OpenSocial reference container. To see this in action, download PeerAware and join the OpenSocial WorkSpace.

The interesting thing about OpenSocial is that it makes it possible for third party developers to create widget applications that run inside PeerAware and integrate with just about anything. Watch this space, more will follow.

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OpenSocial integration

Monday, November 12th, 2007

OpenSocial is a new API developed by google and friends to make it possible to write social applications once that run on all social networks. I am investigating if I can make this work within a PeerAware workspace. Which means that I will make the PeerAware workspace into a container for the OpenSocial API and convert a couple of my applications into OpenSocial applications at the same time. At least the Texas Hold’em game should work well in this setting.

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