Re:Listable: create and share lists with JSON, SQL, and plai...
by gstar on Monday January 26, 2009 @06:32AM
(#450292)
I've had an idea to build a list app for a while, but the devil is in the details.
My mental list (ahem!) of features went like this:
- It needs to hold lists of key/value pairs of any size (bit like memcached, or a list of dicts in python)
- It needs to have RPC access to add/insert/delete/update keys and values
- There needs to be pub/sub access to the RPC interface, replication needs to be instant, and it needs to be able to advise you if the replication is degraded. Some sort of MQ service.
- It needs to have client libraries in a few languages, and some example apps
- It needs to have a web front-end for inspecting and managing lists and permissions
Imagine the possibilities!
- you could have a desktop/web and iphone app that monitored stock prices, your server status, or other arbitrary figures
- you and your wife could have the ultimate shopping list (delete butter on one and it's instantly gone and deleted on all devices - fantastically useful)
- you could re-invent irc
- you could make hypertwitter 2.0
- you could make a message queue service
- you could build a CDN or cache on it.
Has this been done? I know Google Spreadsheets is about 5% of the way there.
Re:Listable: create and share lists with JSON, SQL, and plai...
by Blaksheep on Monday January 26, 2009 @01:33AM
(#450102)
Pretty cool concept as bprater pointed out. I would like to see a special split character or something so you could generate comma separated lists and thus, multi-column SQL Tables and more complex JSON objects.
"That's not a knife... that's a knife http://www.trailbehind.com/park_index/0/"
Here's a big list that does something... allow Google to index my 3000 park maps :)
My mental list (ahem!) of features went like this:
- It needs to hold lists of key/value pairs of any size (bit like memcached, or a list of dicts in python)
- It needs to have RPC access to add/insert/delete/update keys and values
- There needs to be pub/sub access to the RPC interface, replication needs to be instant, and it needs to be able to advise you if the replication is degraded. Some sort of MQ service.
- It needs to have client libraries in a few languages, and some example apps
- It needs to have a web front-end for inspecting and managing lists and permissions
Imagine the possibilities!
- you could have a desktop/web and iphone app that monitored stock prices, your server status, or other arbitrary figures
- you and your wife could have the ultimate shopping list (delete butter on one and it's instantly gone and deleted on all devices - fantastically useful)
- you could re-invent irc
- you could make hypertwitter 2.0
- you could make a message queue service
- you could build a CDN or cache on it.
Has this been done? I know Google Spreadsheets is about 5% of the way there.
http://www.listable.org/mysql/random-stuff
I'm curious if they are going to allow general web applications to draw data continually.