[backpress-dev] GeoPress - The Geo-Tagging Platform built on BackPress

[Mark Smalley]

Nikolay

GlotPress provided a solid starting point, as it already had the log-in / perma-type in place. I just needed to extended the perma-type for Maps, Places and Checkins. Perhaps the biggest changes I made were in organizing the files. Class names / file names were a mixed bag of bb, wp, gp, glotpress, so basically changed everything to just "gp_", and then created a new level of structure for "gp-admin", "gp-content" and "gp-includes". To be honest, I was completely lost when I first opened just BackPress and tried to get things going from there. Without GlotPress, I would probably not have had the time to really get into things. However, in hindsight, I now realize that BackPress needs to remain just like that, because as soon as it tries to define how things are, it's no longer generic enough to serve its purpose, but some serious consolidation and mild organization needs to take place in order for more people to adopt the framework. My problem is now going to be that I am locked-in to the present version of BackPress, and will now need to continue forking the code. Not necessarily a bad thing in that GeoPress does need to do a lot of things (specifically the way admin is handled) differently to WordPress, but still, in an ideal world... I'm just glad to have provided another starting point and sincerely hope I am able to muster the necessary time to see the GeoPress project reach a stable, fuller-featured 1.0 release...


Kind regards;

Mark Smalley

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On Mar 17, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Nikolay Bachiyski wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:54, Mark Smalley <mark at smalley.my> wrote:
>> Hello Everyone!
>> I've been following this mailing list for several months now, and have
>> noticed that there are a few people looking for more examples (other than
>> GlotPress) of what BackPress can do, so I would like to introduce something
>> I have been working on in my limited spare time. It's a self-hosted
>> geo-tagging / Foursquare alternative, and although it has several bugs and
>> LOADS of features missing, there is now enough working parts for me to show
>> it to the world, so have just uploaded it to GitHub and would like to
>> mention it to you guys so I can get some critical feedback.
> 
> I only skimmed through it and it lookes good, but I would like to hear
> any feedback on your side, since you had the chance to play a lot more
> with the GlotPress code than I with yours.
> 
> N.

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