DotNetKicks - Now Serving SVN Revision 501

gavinjoyce — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:53:00 GMT

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?

DotNetKicks Tags: DotNetKicks, OpenSource, Zeitgeist, JSON

More AJAX goodness for DotNetKicks.com and SharePointKicks.com

gavinjoyce — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:35:00 GMT

This weekend sees some more new features added to dotnetkicks.com and sharepointkicks.com.

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AJAX Sorting of popular stories:

It is now possible to view the most popular stories in the past day, week, month and year.

Story Tagging:

Clicking the 'tag it' link on any story allows you to tag the story with your own tags. Click the [x] to remove the tag.

DotNetKicks IBlogExtension Plugin For RSS Bandit (and others)

gavinjoyce — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:17:00 GMT

Phil Haack has written an IBlogExtension plugin so that you can submit/kick/unkick stories from RSS Bandit or any RSS Aggregator that supports the IBlogExtension plugin model.

Download it here

on dotnetkicks.com

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