Re: Wanted: Lua GeoLocation and Social Networking API Client Libraries

[Chris Babcock <cbabcock@...>]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/12/30 Ignacio Burgueño <ignaciob@inconcertcc.com>:
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:40 AM, startx <startx@plentyfact.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:02:48 -0700
>>> Chris Babcock <cbabcock@asciiking.com> wrote:
>
>>> > I'm planning to do a little work over the coming year using the
>>> > Sputnik wiki to expose a game console for the Atlantis, Olympia and
>>> > nJudge play by email game engines. While I can always use a little
>>> > help, today I'm writing to offer opportunistic assistance to anybody
>>> > who's looking to start or to update client libraries for GeoLocation
>>> > (e.g. GeoIP, AdWords) or Social Networking (e.g. OpenSocial, Facebook,
>>> > Twitter/OStatus) this year.
>
>> For Twitter, there is https://github.com/TheLinx/ltwitter
>
> You also may be interested in this:
>
> http://fperrad.github.com/lua-Spore/
>
> (Have not tried it myself yet, am interested in feedback.)

I was also taking an interest in an event oriented approach
likeLua-handlers - https://github.com/Neopallium/lua-handlers -
because social networks range in responsiveness from unreliable to
notoriously unreliable. :)

Lua-Spore looks like the place to start. It's just the thing to do an
ad hoc implementation for those API functions I actually use. Time
permitting, the event oriented approach could be hacked into the back
end later.

The ltwitter library is something I would use if Twitter was my
primary target, but I'm more likely to start off by implementing
authentication and posting methods for a number of sites than I would
be to implement total integration with Facebook or any other specific
site. Dependencies aren't as much of a negative for web applications
as they are for other areas where Lua is historically strong because
the desired performance profile is scaling linear to load as opposed
to maximizing function for a fixed hardware investment.

The docs for the most recent Facebook API are here:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api

Feel free to catch me off-list if you find yourself working on this
and want to bump it up my priority list for collaboration or testing.

Chris
--
51st century guy