Chandra Patni is an
engineer at IGN who saw a good way to develop using OpenSocial. Some hacking later, and he
ended up with happyhour, an open
source OpenSocial container powered by Google Gears.
Brad Neuberg and
myself got together with Chandra to discuss the project.
In the
conversation below you will hear about:
How happyhour increases
developer productivity when building OpenSocial components
How designers
have been able to work with his OpenSocial applications with happyhour
How
happyhour differs from another open source container, Apache
Shindig
His experience, and lessons learned using
Gears
How he added support for ISO dates for Gears using
SQLite
There is room for potential collaboration with Apache
Shindig too. The projects can share the same data format, or happyhour could even hook into
Apache Shindig in some way.
If you would like to make changes on the
fly as you develop your OpenSocial applications, then give happyhour a look. Want to see a few
more details about the code? Read more over at
the Gears blog.
