Developing with Music

This post's title makes it sound a lot more interesting than it probably is in reality... unfortunately. It sounds like we're developing some platform for developing software using music. As cool as that would be, that's not what this post is about.

Really I just wanted to take a break from creating posts about the technical aspects and post something more... fun. And music always makes everything more fun - even programming.

The programmers of codeXplode are huge users of Spotify. We love it. We wouldn't be nearly as productive without the hours of music. If you don't already have an account, I strongly suggest getting one. It's free and you will be able to listen along with the codeXplode programmers.

And just for fun, here's the playlist we're currently using. Feel free to subscribe and what not. http://open.spotify.com/user/fallout0124/playlist/0gAo4woVWC7sLwLSXYTLj4.

Also, we have decided to create a collaborative playlist just for codeXplode. One where our programmers can listen, but are not allowed to modify it. We want our readers to modify it. Think of this as a kind of cool experiment where you can have direct control over what we listen to. Hopefully there will be some cool music on this. Have fun. Here's the link to the collaborative playlist. http://open.spotify.com/user/fallout0124/playlist/3cmm5iGa5VKDbNsfMjARvH

And in case you can't modify that playlist (you may have to add me on Spotify... not sure on this), here's a link to me on Spotify. http://open.spotify.com/user/fallout0124

Have fun,

Plans for Social Networking

The codeXplode team realizes that people (yes that includes programmers) are pretty attached to the whole idea of social networking. Also we feel it would fit in nicely with the ideas and plans for codeXplode. Therefore, codeXplode has plans to implement social networking into the site. This will allow users to follow other programmers and projects to easily stay up to date with there favorite projects and developers.

Tracking the development of a project or the users behind that project will be much like friending/following someone on Facebook or Google+. You will simply add them. Once they make a change, that change will appear on your feed.

If a project (that you are following) admin were to change the title of that project, then you would see an entry stating such on your feed. Also, if a project's member were to commit a new change, you would be notified of that as well.

Likewise, if you are 'friends' (or following) another user, then if they were to change one of there project's title, then that would appear on your feed. If they commit a change to a project they are a member of then you would see a feed entry for that.

There will be many other types of feed entries. The two mentioned here were just basic examples I'm using to show how social networking will work into codeXplode's features. I will have more in depth entries about codeXplode's social networking once we begin active development on those areas.

Development - 3/17/12

This is the first in a series of posts that I will now try to do regularly. I will just post updates on what we've developed since the past post, and what we have planned for future development.

Currently, we have project profiles nearly complete. Users can view a project's profile, peek into the project's repository, comment on the project, check the status of current bugs or create a new bug, view available downloads for the project, and views members of the project. Also, we have our basic invitation system in place, as well as an about page.

Future development for the next week will involve us developing more into the bugs page for projects. That should keep us pretty busy for the upcoming week.