REROLL

• Welcome to the talk! In short, our purpose is:
  • Briefly outline the history of Everything
  • Talk about design criteria that were somehow considered
  • Exhibit nifty features
  • Look at the two main examples -- Everything2 and PerlMonks
  • Conclude that the engine is cool as beans.
• In the beginning, there was everything.slashdot.org
  
  • Node-graph design
  • linking within text with [Like So]
  • No 404, instead defaults to search or create new
  • Rob Malda's hack -> [% $perl_code; %] = Eval
  • Time passes... intermediate work -- Adfu and Rob's Slash
• The machine we wanted to build
  • The "universal web script" - Everything1 style
  • define templates and forms for database data (a generic layer)
  • a multi-user system
  • consistency with the philosophies behind UNIX and PERL
  • The Node
    • keep 'common' data properties together (title, id, createtime, author_user, etc)
    • a perl hash containing fields from different data tables
    • an object you can call specific methods from
    • nodetypes describe the nodes functionality.
• A few examples -- and a site caveat
  • Everything2.com
    • Everything User Search
    • Chatterbox and message opcode (rooms, too!)
      • Instant Messaging
      • The other users "ladder"
      • /borg
    • e2 jukka theme (themeablitly)
    • cool and coolwriteups, cool archive
    • voting/experience system -- level votes, et al.
      • Inspiration
      • An experience system -> virtual currency
      • Real numbers in your reputation system
      • Level powers
      • Quests -- Everything Music, etc.
  • Perlmonks.org -- Props to Vroom
    • Incorporated similar aspects (chatterbox, XP system, etc), but more Slash/like
    • Note and shownote
    • decorate, decorate -- monkquip and randomonk
    • listandmoderate (ie Seekers of Perl Wisdom
• How do you build this?
  • A look at Paco
  • Function nodeballs
  • Footprint considerations
  • lots of hacking
• Why don't I shut up and let you ask questions?
• Let's go home.