node.js ko
twetalk
twetalk
by Latest Build
We allow attendees and presenters of a talk to interact with each other through tweets. Accessing our App, they are able to add conferences and their respective talks and once that is done…
=> presenters can: * have feedback on their presentations * notify public about related new (share slides, etc)
=> attendees can: * provide feedback * discuss talk contents and subject * know other attendees * look for presentation news
Tweets sent to a talk are always accessible, so you are to able to check what is going on whenever you want.
Judging Instructions
It wasn’t tested against Internet Explorer, so it probably doesn’t work on it. Should work fine in webkit browsers (Chrome and Safari) as well as Firefox..
First of all, go to http://latest-build.nko2.nodeknockout.com/ :)
Once you are there, you’ll be able to check for the upcoming conferences, but we believe you might haven an awesome conference to add. For that, click on ‘Add your conference’.
Fill the forms with the conference info and add as many talks as it have. This part is kind of painful, we know, but think how cool it’s going to be when all the attendees and presenters are interacting with each others thanks to you :P
Save it and your conference is now listed on the home screen \o/. When clicking on it, everybody will be able to see a schedule with the available talks and that’s where the fun starts. Check out the ‘Login with Twitter’ button on the upper left corner. You guessed right: time to login :D
Now, click on a talk, that one you are willing to see. You’ll see that a new widget will open. Drag and resize it at your will. Nothing on there? Time to start tweeting about it. What about “That talk looks great. I’m looking forward to see it!”?
Congratulations! You are the first one to twetalk and everybody who is looking for that talk is already seeing your message. Very soon others will join you :D
Who
lucastorri
gtramontina — Porto Alegre, Brazil
nettofarah — Porto Alegre, RS
functioncallback — Brazil
How
We would like to thank all the creators and contributors of the following packages: * express * nko * jade * now * underscore * everyauth * mongoose * twitter * superagent * qs
APIs used: * Twitter
JS libs: * FullCalendar
Tools: * VIm * TextMate * Sublime Text * MongoDB * nodemon * MongoHub
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technoweeniejudge
adinardijudgeThe immediately problematic thing was the lack of UI when the app was “working”. When saving/loading/updating there was no indication it was doing so and simply appeared broken.
I’m assuming something is breaking — most of the conference the calendars were completely full of “undefined” and “NaN”. Some were able to load.
It looks like your pretty-url generator isn’t handling collisions well, there’s a lot of test entries all with the same url.
Sometimes I’d “tweet” and it wouldn’t show up in the UI, but would go to Twitter successfully. I found no way to edit or manage a conference or talk after creation.
The idea is pretty interesting and I can see the use at something like a barcamp. I wonder, though, if allowing people to post to the system without posting to twitter would work better. If there’s going to be a lot of active conversation it might be a bit noisy for twitter.
sh1mmerjudgeI like the idea of organising tweets around talks and you executed very well, however the experience just doesn’t hang together for me. I thought you would make a hashtag or something but it doesn’t quite seem to fit to me being out of context.
mikealjudgesave button does nothing.
therazorbladejudgeEverything made sense to me until the point where comments are tweets. It is not like you are bringing Tweets from outside the product in based on hashtag or keywords. So people following me will get a completely out of context message because I posted it in a very specific setup. Take out the tweets part and this is a nice way to setup a schedule and leave comments.
ncb000gt
contestantSeems a bit rough around the edges. I’m not sure what the purpose of flash is here. I wasn’t actually seeing much happen and certainly wouldn’t want to have to go to twitter just to be able to see something show up on the page. Also, it would be handy to have some messaging saying “Nobody has talked about this yet.” since I wasn’t sure if my browser plugins were the reason I wasn’t seeing anything or if your stuff just wasn’t working.
Also, I’m now seeing a lot of “undefined/NaN” in the header of the tables that took a really long time to render.
csanzjudgecarsonmcdonald
contestant
Lots of weird little bugs. Duplicate entries, busted calendars, etc.