Category: Dev

  • OpenKE News

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    The last few days I was working hard on my open knowledge community project (formerly anounced as openiktbook). I decided to change the name into OpenKE, which means open knowledge enviroment or exchange – i’m not quite sure at this stage about the name. I registered the domain openke.org for this project, already symbolising the non profit character of it. As you can see I’ve made a few logo design for the page – my favorite is the one that I inserted at the top. Feedback is very welcome!!

    Besides a little bit of artwork I spent a lot of time on the architecture, database design of the whole application. The DB strucure is at this stage done and I’m just optimizing the queries and so on. For your intrest: I made a own approach of a tagging implementation, which is actually not that new cause also utw uses it, but the performance and handling of it is quite good. I dont’ think it could be done significant better. If you are intresting in this information I can write a tutorial on it. It’s quite hard to find infos on building a tagging implementation on the net, so I think it’s a good recource for all of you.

    I don’t talk much about the features of this application, cause I just keep thinking on new cool features and this and that…There’s no clear picture of it in my mind at this stage, so I can just tell you that is is about free knowledge resources like book, videos of conferences, free e-learning courses and so…This is one part, another is the interaction between the users on the plattform. To prove that I’m not talking shit, here are my notes on the features:

    ---Global Feature List----
    - Resources Area
    * Tags/Tagcloud/Taglist
    *Popular Searches/
    *Latest and Popular Stuff Lists
    - Knowledger Area
    *Visualisation of all resources
    *ability to discover new field of intrest
    - Exchange Area
    *Forum
    *e-learning courses
    _ User Profile
    * Skill Table
    - Popular Searches
    - Log User interaction for a user profile

  • Tutorial on RSS

    I made a little tutorial on how to create a dynamic generated rss feed for a news scipt for example. The tutorial is written for intermediate experienced people, having knowlegde in php development and a little bit of mysql. But also Beginners could learn from it how rss works. You can access it here:
    RSS Feed Tutorial (German)

  • Feed Agregator update

    My personalportal called rss feed agregator is now capable to display the news on mobile devieces too. I just fixed some stuff in the css to do so. I thnik it’s an good entry point for browsing in the mobile web. Maybe if i have some spare time i will ad some features like customisation etc. to develop a service which provides such an customized portal for a single user. Now this page is just for my personal usw only!!