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When does PHP become slow? [closed]
I want to build a private online social network for some companies. I know many developers, some of them use PHP, some use Python and some use .NET (ASP.NET).
I have heard good things about PHP such ...
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Developing for the RenRen social network [closed]
I have a Django-based API to interact with social networks, and I would like to integrate with RenRen.
My main problem is not a programming one, but how to create an application for RenRen. I try to ...
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Is Neo4j graph database sufficient to itself for all query types?
Neo4j eases relationship traversals => especially useful for a social network for instance.
But are there any scenarios when it's advised to associate an additional relational database (or other ...
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Open Source Cloud Computing
Recently I realized that the most popular social platforms on the net are in the hand of just a few companies, Google, Twitter, Facebook, to name just a few. Taking into account the world changing ...
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Is it reasonable to require passwords when users sign into my application through social media accounts?
I've built an application that requires users to authenticate with one or more social media accounts from either Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.
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Once the user has signed in, an 'identity' for ...
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Class hierarchy problem in this social network model
I'm trying to design a class system for a social network data model - basically a link/object system. Now I have roughly the following structure (simplified and only relevant methods shown)
class ...
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Ways of Gathering Event Information From the Internet [closed]
What are the best ways of gathering information on events (any type) from the internet ?
Keeping in mind that different websites will present information in different ways.
I was thinking 'smart' ...
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How do I mashup Google Maps with geolocated photos from one or more social networks? [closed]
I'm working on a proof of concept for a project, and I need to pin random photos to a Google Map. These photos can come from another social network, but need to be non-porn.
I've done some research ...
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How to deal with social login
In my new web app I'm going to allow social login through Twitter (maybe), Facebook and Google and I'm in search of the best way to do it.
Actually I'm using Rails with Devise + Omniauth and this is ...
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What will generate an adjacency matrix file with a specified topology for me?
I am writing an application that takes some file specifying an adjacency matrix and uses this to construct a graph (in this case, a directed social network).
What I would like to do is specify the ...
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How practical is it to build your very own social network?
A friend of mine wants to create his own niche social network for a specific target audience.
I want to give my friend an idea about how practical this is on the software side. What kind of work ...
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Is there something like Diaspora written in PHP?
I am looking for an open source social networking platform. Diaspora is perfect, except it is not written in PHP. Is there a project like Diaspora written in PHP?
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Programming logic to group a users activities like Facebook
So I am trying to develop an activity feed for my site. Basically If I UNION a bunch of activities into a feed I would end up with something like the following.
Chris is now friends with Mark
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There is a (social) network / website for developers share ideas and find a team for development? [closed]
Supposing I want to do some kind of project, but I want to find more people interested in that area that can develop some project with me, there is some website focused on this?
Example: "I want to ...
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*Code owner* system: is it an efficient way?
There is a new developer in our team. An agile methodology is in use at our company. But the developer has another experience: he considers that particular parts of the code must be assigned to ...
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How does one network at software conferences? [closed]
I'm still at Microsoft TechEd, and the response to my question about how to effectively use my time at software conferences was overwhelmingly "networking is the most useful part of software ...
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i want to make some programmer friends but dont know where to really look [closed]
I know this is one good place but what I'm really looking for is contacts, maybe seeing them online, have intelligent conversations etc. Where I live there isn't that many programmers around me ...
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Web framework able to handle many concurrent users
Social networking sites needs to handle many concurrent users e.g. for chat functionality.
What web frameworks scales well and are able to handle more than 10.000 concurrent users connected with ...
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Twitter's new approach of third party application? How would you see this move as developer… especially you plan to build a twitter client
Just today morning I have read news that twitter has issued a warning to developers not to make any new third party client, the official announcement can be read here.
As a programmer, how do you see ...
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Is Google's Friend Connect tool defunct?
Looking at the Friend Connect sites, documentation, example, I've noticed that:
there haven't been updates in a long time
many of the sites used as example sites are dead or abandoned
the community ...
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Which framework would you recommend to use to add “social networking” components to a website?
Given an existing site/web application which already enables users to create and publish content, is there a service or server side tool I can install, which will add the standard social networking ...
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What do you need to know before you build something like Facebook / Twitter / YouTube? [closed]
Of course you will need a programming language! But what other things that you should know before you build your first steps for a large website which will be for the community!
What else do you ...
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How do I keep controversy in check?
This is probably OT but it's less OT here than on any other SO site, so please bear with me.
I'm working on a new project votEm. The goal is to give independent candidates a platform to introduce ...
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Amount of man hours to write a social network
I have big dreams of writing the next Facebook (unrealistic I know) and I'm in the planning stages as we speak and I'm umming and ahing about using a php framework for this and how many development ...
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Project size vs. Team size
I'm a freelance solo web developer/designer/iPhone app maker by night (IT technician by day) and i'm interested in developing a social network site to go public (like Facebook, fingers crossed for ...
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Best social networking places for programmers [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a good site for programmers to discuss culture, stories, opinions, or whatever?
I love the programming industry a lot, but I don't have many colleagues that ...
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Social networking sites static caching
In sites like facebook or orkut or friendster what's displayed at the bottom instead of main web address like static.ak.fbcdn.net or profile.ak.fbcdn.net? Are these different servers or they are just ...
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Is Project Titan (Facebook email app) going to be a game changer from a programmers perspective?
Is Project Titan (Facebook email app) going to be a game changer from a programmers perspective?
Although some details are still scarce, the internet is slowly learning more about this new software. ...
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Would you allow your programmers to use Messenger and social networks like Facebook?
I had many bosses, each one had a different approach about allowing or not use of Windows Live Messenger, Facebook, and many other Internet sites.
Of course Internet is really needed to research ...
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What are good social coding sites?
I'm used to CodePlex, and I've heard a lot about GitHub, but haven't looked around much there yet. What are the best social coding sites that tracks commits, interesting projects, etc? (From a large ...
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How to approach people you've found through internet with similar programming interests?
I've recently really dived into Ruby/Rails and I'm falling in love. I have a gut feeling this might be something that could last for a while.
What I've been missing is interaction with people who are ...
