KojoNet http://kogics.wikidot.com/forum/t-263867/kojonet Posts in the discussion thread "KojoNet" - Network Collaboration/Competition/Gaming features for Kojo Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:03:45 +0000 http://kogics.wikidot.com/forum/t-263867#post-886804 Re: KojoNet Begins... http://kogics.wikidot.com/forum/t-263867/kojonet#post-886804 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 07:31:16 +0000 lalitp 66813 The Code Exchange is now live. More information here: http://kojoenv.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/announcing-the-kojo-code-exchange/

]]> http://kogics.wikidot.com/forum/t-263867#post-883566 Re: KojoNet Begins... http://kogics.wikidot.com/forum/t-263867/kojonet#post-883566 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:56:29 +0000 lalitp 66813 Update:
I have added a Markdown based editor (WMD, also used by StackOverflow) for Comments. So posting comments should now be a lot more fun for the user.

]]> http://kogics.wikidot.com/forum/t-263867#post-877302 KojoNet Begins... http://kogics.wikidot.com/forum/t-263867/kojonet#post-877302 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:50:33 +0000 lalitp 66813 I'm pleased to announce the Kojo Code Exchange, a first step in the direction of a Collaboration/Networking Platform for Kojo. Using the Code Exchange is simple:

- Fire up Kojo (new version info below)
- Write some code; run it to make a sketch
- Upload your work (code + sketch) to the Code Exchange by clicking the rightmost button in the Script Editor Toolbar

The Code Exchange is running at: http://www.kogics.net/codeexchange0

Some Features available within the Code Exchange are:

  • Viewing Recent entries
  • Voting on entries
  • Viewing Popular entries (as per votes)
  • Having discussions about entries
  • Viewing entries for particular users
  • Competitions (very basic support for now)

Update: The Code Exchange is now live. More information here:
http://kojoenv.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/announcing-the-kojo-code-exchange/

]]> http://kogics.wikidot.com/forum/t-263867#post-869037 Re: KojoNet http://kogics.wikidot.com/forum/t-263867/kojonet#post-869037 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:54:59 +0000 Robert Smart A couple of relevant things.
1. Google's new family safety center: http://www.google.com/familysafety/
2. Diaspora is an effort to allow better control of identity information in a new open social network: http://www.joindiaspora.com/index.html

]]> http://kogics.wikidot.com/forum/t-263867#post-867953 KojoNet http://kogics.wikidot.com/forum/t-263867/kojonet#post-867953 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:29:56 +0000 lalitp 66813 This is a followup on an earlier post by Robert Smart:

Kojo can definitely benefit from Network Collaboration/Competition/Gaming features. Here are some ideas on things that we might want to see within KojoNet:

  • A Code Exchange - to share code/sketches, rate them, and discuss them (under active development)
  • A Code Competition area - where users upload their competition entries during a specified competition time-range. These entries are then judged to declare winners (it should be easy to adapt the code exchange technology to implement this).
    • Competitions could be:
      • Programming puzzles,
      • Or Programming games like the one mentioned here some time ago by Peter. I'm not quite sure whether the game that Robert describes (in the link at the beginning of the post) falls in this category.
    • There are privacy and security issues involved with implementing competitions (as mentioned by Robert)

How do these features sound?
One great thing, in my mind, about the above features is that - I can see them getting implemented relatively quickly!

What other features can we think of?

In terms of implementation, here's the technology being used for the current cut of the Code Exchange:

  • Scala XML literals for web templating
  • The Play Framework (version 1.1)
  • JPA/Hibernate
  • Postgresql
  • A slice on Linode.com for deployment

It should be relatively easy to run this stuff on the App Engine, if we decide to go in that direction.
If there's interest in hacking on this code, I'll set up a repo on Google code. Lemme know?

That's it for now - just a few rambling thoughts before I crash for the night. Feel free to pitch in with ideas…

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