[Building Sakai] LikeService

[Adrian Fish]

On 22/11/2010 19:45, csev wrote:
> On Nov 22, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Adrian Fish wrote:
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>> On 22/11/2010 16:20, csev wrote:
>>> I agree with Aaron's "nice" assessment.  Simple things are elegant.  And it serves as nice sample code for building EB-style services.
>> I've added an api now so I can add profie2 support. The formatted profile popups are rendered server side. Still elegant though :)
> I was thinking of sample code that talked with the service through EB - although an API is cool too.  By the way, many of the cool people do render server side :)
If someone can set me up with a confluence page I'll get some docs written.
>>> - It seems I can like myself :)
>> You can keep a record of people who 'like' themselves and use it in vanity trials (like witch trials, only far worse).
> I see you already fixed this - I figured the notion of disallowing the liking of oneself was pretty computationally trivial.  I still do like myself - I just won't be able to record that fact using your service :)
>
>>> - It seems like I can +1 myself or anyone else as many times as I like
>> That's okay I reckon. It's  a bit like Ebay's  positive review system.
> Yah - I figured as much.  It would waste a lot of space and computation to stop people from doing it.  Hopefully folks won't write browser plugins to win popularity contests.   Hopefully schools won't give a free iPod to whoever gets the highest like rating.
>
>>> - It would be simple to add a "dislike" column as well
>> I wasn't sure about that. Having children teaches you that positive feedback is best :) It would be simple though.
> Jut because the service supports disliking, it does not mean UI's need to put it there.
>
> On a more serious note, can we like entities other than people?
I thought that would potentially be a huge db hit potentially generating 
millions of records, so I ducked it ..
> /Chuck

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Lancaster University
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email: a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk

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