I’ve been fantasizing about a flexible object store to act as the back-end for web applications. The best approach I could muster was trying to come up with a flexible, pluggable SQLAlchemy model as a start. That’s a lot harder than I anticipated, and I’ve been stumped for a few months now.
No mas. Having played […]
It surprises and saddens me that I’m still so enamored with the version control offered by many of the web apps we use every day. It’s tragic that in this day and age I have to jump through so many hoops to get but a sliver of that ability on my desktop with a VCS. […]
The mental model I had of a capability before was pretty much limited to the wikipedia article and some chance encounters with some of the ideas in the past. It took quite a bit of reading, but I think I finally have more of an understanding of what having a capability could actually represent and […]
As I said before, I’ve been milling about in my head how capabilities can be passed around on the web. Mike Warot’s been riffing on this for a bit, and I think that, for the most part, we’re on the same page for what a credential actually is (UPDATE: I mean capability — I keep […]
So Mike Warot addressed on my questions about a capability-based file system with a two part ditty that, after first leaving me a little confused, ultimately answered quite a few questions. But what with class tonight and what seemed (from a myopic Beltway perspective) to be the crazy politico drama unfolding this evening I can’t […]
If you read through this whole screed, you may still be left wondering: why the name SocialFS?
The answer is twofold: first, I needed a final project for my Social Computing class, and revisiting these ideas seems like a worthwhile endeavor. But the second, deeper answer is what I think is missing from my prior post. […]
I’ve been kicking around the idea of an web-app file system for quite some time, but I haven’t been able to really find the time to work up a head of steam on any implementation details. Now that I’m revisiting the idea for a graduate class, I keep finding little pieces of this vision […]