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| 81 | | == Building Things On Top Of Tahoe == |
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| 83 | | Difficulty: easy to hard, depending on project choice and how far you want to push it |
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| 85 | | There are a lot of applications that could potentially make good use of Tahoe replacing the typical centralized storage of flat files or SQL databases. Currently supported projects include [http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] (one of the Tahoe developers hosts his blog using [http://allmydata.org/trac/tiddly_on_tahoe TiddlyWiki stored in Tahoe]), [http://hadoop.apache.org/ Hadoop], and [RelatedProjects a number of others]. |
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| 87 | | There are still many useful and interesting things that have yet to be built using Tahoe. Perhaps the most promising is in the area of web applications; what applications can you think of that could make use of a highly reliable filesystem accessible from both desktops and [ http://github.com/ctrlaltdel/TahoeLAFS-android handheld devices]? Keep in mind that Tahoe's architecture allows sharing and delegation opportunities that are difficult or impossible to implement using other backends. Some ideas people have suggested include a calender or photo album, or porting Mozilla's [https://bespin.mozilla.com Bespin] editor). |
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| 89 | | Nathan Wilcox wrote most of interactive tree browser frontend in !JavaScript; what interesting ways might this be extended? |
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| 91 | | This is in some ways the most interesting area for development as it combines security and distributed systems problems with providing a user interface that lets a person who isn't particularly security minded operate safely by default. This is a hard problem, but offers great rewards in terms of learning, and even the ability to break new ground in safe-by-default interface design. |
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| 93 | | Required skills: HTML and !JavaScript for web applications. For other tie-ins, will depend on the base project (for instance porting the git DVCS to run on Tahoe would good C-fu, with git experience helpful). |
