DotNetKicks - Now Serving SVN Revision 501
The DotNetKicks open source project is blistering ahead, there have been 336 commits in the last month taking us up to revision 501. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the project so far. Our main contributors the past few weeks were James Welsch, Simone Busoli, Kevin Fricovsky and Atif Aziz.
JSON Services and DNK Widgets
We have launched an initial set of DotNetKicks JSON Services, these will be expanded upon in the near future. We currently support the following anonymous operations:
- getFrontPageStories()
- getFrontPageStoriesPaged(pageNumber, pageSize)
- getPopularStories()
- getPopularStoriesPaged(pageNumber, pageSize)
- getPopularStoriesPagedFromTimePeriod(pageNumber, pageSize, timePeriod)
- getTaggedStories(tag)
- getTaggedStoriesPaged(tag, pageNumber, pageSize)
- getUpcomingPageStories()
- getUpcomingPageStoriesPaged(pageNumber, pageSize)
- getUpcomingStories()
- getUpcomingStoriesPaged(pageNumber, pageSize)
- getUpcomingStoriesPagedFromTimePeriod(pageNumber, pageSize, timePeriod)
- getUserFriendsKickedStories(username)
- getUserFriendsKickedStoriesPaged(username, pageNumber, pageSize)
- getUserFriendsSubmittedStories(username)
- getUserFriendsSubmittedStoriesPaged(username, pageNumber, pageSize)
- getUserKickedStories(username)
- getUserKickedStoriesPaged(username, pageNumber, pageSize)
- getUserSubmittedStories(username)
- getUserSubmittedStoriesPaged(username, pageNumber, pageSize)
Kevin created a screencast demonstrating how to create a 'my recent kicks' widget using jQuery and the DNK JSON services. Atif created a live display widget using jQuery which show the live DNK front page, popular and upcoming stories on one page. Let me know if you have seen any other uses of the JSON api.
DNK Zeitgeist
James has continued his great work on the new DotNetKicks Zeitgeist. Looking at the Zeitgeist for September, we can see that there were:
- 496 stories submitted
- 172 stories published
- 4733 Kicks
- 349 Comments
This feature will become a first class citizen in the UI when we redesign the UI.
DNK Growth
September broke all the previous records - it was by far our most active month on the site (pdf). In an effort to be as transparent as possible, we are now publishing the Google Analytics statistics for the site on two Google groups:
Please join either group if you would like to receive these stats by email. It is also a good time to let you friends and colleagues know about DNK and its fantastic .NET news feed.
Custom Kick It buttons
Simone recently added another nice new feature which allows you to customise the 'kick it' buttons. You'll see the new options after submitting a story. It will soon be easy to create these kick it buttons from any story page.
Facebook Group
James also created a DotNetKicks facebook group which already has 9 members. Search for 'DotNetKicks' on facebook if you would like to join.
Seen in the wild
I have come across two website using the open source DotNetKicks code base so far:
Anyone seen any others?
