My New Open-Source Project, SimpleForum

I’ve started with my first open-source project on CodePlex called SimpleForum and I’m looking for some help. It’s based on ASP.NET MVC3 and uses Ninject for Dependency Injection.

SimpleForum needs to be, as the name suggests, a forum that is simple and easy to use to both end-user and administrators.

So, you need to setup a new forum for your website or a business – what instantly pops into your head; vBulletin? phpBB maybe? Or even Invision Board? Yeah, they’re all PHP based. SimpleForum aims to be the vBulletin, phpBB and Invision Board of the ASP.NET world. View the Documentation if you wish to check the project out, or just view the screenshots. Any help would be appreciated so take a look at the Issue Tracker or get stuck-in, do a check out and feel free to submit patches

EsenAPE – send and receive SMS in real time using APE, jQuery, PHP and libape_controller

Here we have a sample demo of sending and receiving SMS (text messages) in real-time using APE‘s libape_controller. We also utilize an SMS gateway called Esendex which is a UK based company – hence the name EsenAPE. When a message is sent to Esendex (e.g. you reply to the text you sent yourself) it will call a URL (RPC.php) we can then pass this onto APE for updating the users UI. The idea originated from a project I’ve just completed with work, Alert and Respond which basically does what this demo does but not in real time (polls every 30 seconds). It’s a good example of how to use the libape_controller – let me know what you think

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Diving into APE modules and the JSF – creating topics for channels

So today we’re going to give the ability of giving a channel a topic, much like IRC and in the process learn more about the internals of APE. This requires us to modify the libape-chat.c code and create some additions in the chat.js of the Chat Demo. We’re not going to end up with complete code but you’ll see how flexible APE is and how quickly we can extend it.

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Using jQuery with APE – an OOP approach with the DUI

Following up on my previous post, we used a singleton “class” by using a function. I’ve recently come accross the DUI (Digg User Interface) which is a jQuery plugin and extends jQuery so we can use classes – much similiar to MooTools Class method.

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Using jQuery With APE

APE (AJAX Push Engine) uses the MooTools library by default which is great, if you work with MooTools. What about us jQuery users? Well with APE it’s very easy to use your own preferred library and I’ll show you how.

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APE – An Introduction

APE (AJAX Push Engine) is basically a daemon which acts as a proxy between your client and the HTTPD. It allows thousands of users to exchange real time information through your existing web browser, no reloading and no plug-ins – a web developers dream.

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