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Hi Roger,<br>
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On 08/09/2010 22:40, Roger Hoover wrote:
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type="cite">Just curious, why create your own programming
language?</blockquote>
Well, I can see security issues related to just allowing
unparsed/checked code being uploaded and run on the open-source
website. Regardless, I'd want to put a parser in front of the
underlying implementation (which is PHP). Since I was going to do
that, I thought changing the syntax to a nicer one would make
sense. The syntax is basically PHP, but without '$' for variables
and allowing Javascript-like dot notation for arrays (e.g.
var.subvar, instead of $var['subvar']).<br>
<br>
There are reasons why I chose PHP for the underlying platform which
I won't go into here, but you can message me privately if you're
interested.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Marcus.<br>
<br>
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<div>Roger<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Eugaia
<span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi guys,<br>
<br>
I hope nobody minds me asking for help in this way.<br>
<br>
I'm asking for help from programmers to help set up a unique
open-source project that could benefit a great many people.<br>
<br>
The Tagmata Project's three aims are :<br>
<br>
(1) to create a completely open-source website<br>
(2) to use the site to generate money<br>
(3) to use the profits to help alleviate poverty<br>
<br>
Full details of the whole project can be found at <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.tagmata.info"
target="_blank">http://www.tagmata.info</a>.<br>
<br>
The platform for the open-source website has not yet been
built, and that is what I'm asking for help with.<br>
<br>
There are two things in particular that seem most relevant
to Nginx developers / users :<br>
<br>
<br>
(1) Nginx - MongoDB module<br>
<br>
The Tagmata database will use MongoDB, with an Nginx
front-end. We're looking to develop an Nginx module that
connects to MongoDB, to allow queries through Nginx to
MongoDB (in a similar vein to the recent ngx_drizzle,
ngx_postgres etc modules that have been developed recently
by Agentzh, Piotr Sikora et al.). This might be able to
reuse some code from the ngx_gridfs module, but I'm not sure
how stable it is.<br>
<br>
Another part of this module will be translating our own
database query language (Tagmata Query Language) to MongoDB
queries - which should be pretty easy, as the syntax is very
similar.<br>
<br>
The code for this will be hosted on GitHub, and will be
designed in such a way that it will be reusable for other
projects that wish to connect to MongoDB that don't want to
use Tagmata Query Language.<br>
<br>
Once this particular module is written and stable, I'll post
here to let Nginx users know.<br>
<br>
<br>
(2) Online development tools<br>
<br>
In order to facilitate adding/modifying of code on the
open-source website, we're developing our own tools to make
this easy. These will be written in our own scripting
language (a cross between PHP and Javascript/Ruby - see <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.tagmata.info/development/info/TPL"
target="_blank">http://www.tagmata.info/development/info/TPL</a>
for details).<br>
<br>
The code for these will be made available on the open-source
website (<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://tagmata.com"
target="_blank">tagmata.com</a>) when the base platform
has been developed.<br>
<br>
<br>
I can do all of this code myself, but I'm hoping that some
generous programmers would be willing to help out to make
the task easier. Some other programmers have volunteered to
do some of the other tasks that need doing, but we could do
with some more help to speed up the development process.<br>
<br>
<br>
If you'd like to know more about the project, please visit <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.tagmata.info"
target="_blank">http://www.tagmata.info</a>.<br>
If you'd like to know more about the programming tasks,
please visit <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.tagmata.info/development/programming"
target="_blank">http://www.tagmata.info/development/programming</a>.<br>
If you'd like to get involved, please contact me by email (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dev@tagmata.com"
target="_blank">dev@tagmata.com</a>) or IRC (Freenode
#tagmata).<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance,<br>
<br>
Marcus Clyne.<br>
<br>
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