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Using the Neotext Generator

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I recently completed a section of the site that allows Neotext users to generate neotexts for quotes hosted on their websites.

The process requires you to:

  1. Add a wordpress plugin to their site (or install the javascript code yourself).
  2. Create a quote using the “cite” attribute
    • Highlight the text and click the “Neotext blockquote” button
      highlight-quote
    • Enter the url into the prompt:
      enter-url
    • See the quote formatted like a blockquote (indented)
      view-formatted-blockquote
    • View the quote source to verify the “cite” attribute is filled in.view-quote-source
  3. Submit the URL of your page into the Generator
    enter-url-in-generator
  4. Reload the page to view the javascript data (json)

Here is the Resulting Text:

This is a quote from Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar:

The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.

I can “neotextify” the quote by clicking on the “Neotext blockquote” button that was added to my menu bar and entering the url

Django backend now uploads to Amazon S3

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I haven’t blogged about my recent work on neotext, so here’s another post to get you up to speed:

I modified the django backend so that, in addition to saving a copy of the json file locally, it also uploads a copy of the json file up to Amazon S3.

I then modified the jQuery function to look for neotext json files on:

  • http://read.neotext.net/quote/sha1/0.01/

This subdomain is currently served by Amazon S3.

Having all read requests served by Amazon S3 makes the service much more scalable.

Presentation at Central PA Open Source Conference

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This past Saturday I did a “lightening talk” at the Central PA Open Source Conference, held in Lancaster, PA.

I hadn’t been intending to do a talk, but a fellow attendee encouraged me to.  I’ve been talking to enough people that I can do a 5 minute talk without notes pretty easily.

I got some good feedback from the attendees about:

  • technological choices to be made for the API (node.js)
  • approaches towards parsing the html and maintaining context
  • intellectual property issues (fair use)

Creating WordPress Tinymce Custom Buttons

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Yesterday, I got the basic implementation of the wordpress tinymce buttons working.

You can see two buttons in the screenshot:

  • Neotext blockquote
  • Neotext q

tinymce-custom-buttons

Clicking on one of these links pops up a dialog box, prompting the entry of a url.

The result of this entry is a “blockquote” or “q” tag containing a cite attribute, allowing writers to create neotext references without knowing html.

In the future, I hope to make the buttons use attractive icons.

You can view the code on github:

  • quote-context.php
  • tinymce-blockquote.js

Newsletter Created

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Yesterday, I created a newsletter to allow interested people to receive updates about the Neotext project.

I also added an RSS feed for the website news.  I anticipate that the newsletter will be sent relatively infrequently.  People interested in all updates should subscribe to the RSS feed.

Demo Page Working

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I got the demo page 1 working today.

The demo uses code that will makeup a wordpress plugin, once everything gets put together.

The next step is to work on setting up a web service to create and reply the requests with json.

  1. the original link was: http://www.neotext.net/demo/↩

First Post!

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Today is the first day for the neotext website!

In the next month, I hope to:

  • get the demo page working
  • setup a python-based webservice
  • create a Github project for the jQuery library
  • upload a wordpress plugin for the webservice