TechCrunch just announced that Facebook has made an interesting move in making there platform open source. It is available for people to download and use under their copyright rules. As far as competing with Open Social then it is a smart move since you never want to stay back in an industry where everything is about the latest technology.
The fb-open-platform.tar.gz archive contains the tools necessary to implement Facebook Open Platform — including the API, FBML (Facebook Markup Language), FBJS (Facebook JavaScript), and FQL (Facebook Query Language) — in your own environment
This might lead to more Social Networks opening up, some public and some private. It is bad for people who have been investing in social networks and now have this new resource available. This also reminds me of the time part of the source code was leaked but not very useful.
Yasser
My second project for Computer Science 2 was creating a simple Chat program. They wanted us to use a GUI, that was basicaly the whole idea behind this project. If you ask me, this is a simple, bit dumb of a project to give us. The hardest part was figuring out what they wanted us to do because of the weird explanation they use. My previous project on Battleship was a bit more complicated since it involved actually thinking and planning. For the chat program we didn’t even have to do the networking part because they gave us Classes that do this for us. The program uses one of RIT’s Computer Science computer as the server for the chat. Everyting runs very simple, I dont know if you are allowed to connect from outside RIT but you are free to try.
My code: CSChat and here is the explanation of what we have to do Project 2
Yasser
In Computer Science 2 they made is due our first “project”. What they mean by project is create a “real” program from scratch with instructions that contradict themself and not very clear always. It was an easy thing to code but error checking was horrible since I am not very familiar with Java. The project was a 1 player Battleship game (who plays Battleship by themself?) , reading the boats from a file.
This were the instructions that they gave us: Battleship v2
And this is my code that I submited: Battleship
I hope everyone enjoys, coding is a bit slopy but when your rushing time it’s hard to write nice code.
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