Show HN: My learn-Zend project -- A chat room on top of all the web's sites

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by pre • 14 years ago

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fuzzix• 14 years ago

Nice work, Adam.

(Also, long time - how are things?)

pre6• 14 years ago

Cheers.

Things are good, at least assuming I find a new job at some point soonish.

thatusertwo• 14 years ago

Im in the same boat, got laid off when the company ran out of money, haven't yet found anything decent.

duiker101• 14 years ago

As far as i remember you are not the first to do something like this. I will try to find the other project. You have done a good job but if you wish this to be more than a learn project i suggest you to dedicate some time to the style ;)

pre6• 14 years ago

Yeah, I'm more coder than graphic designer, certainly. Cheers for looking.

Tim-Boss• 14 years ago

It was called OLark if my memory hasn't failed me. From what I remember it was semi-popular for a while but ultimately died a death of user scarcity as only the most popular websites ever had >1 active user with the program installed. Let me try find the link.... [edit] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801242

pre6• 14 years ago

Yeah, that would be the difficulty.

If I get time (have to concentrate mostly on job-hunting for now) I was thinking of doing a "auto-post-to-twitter" to try and pull people outside the conversation in.

science_robot• 14 years ago

Sometime in the 90s there existed a Windows application that added a chat overlay to any webpage. Users had small rectangular icons and could move around the webpage. You could also create a "bus" and drive people around the web.

dgabriel• 14 years ago

I don't think OLark is quite dead. They seem to be doing fine.

dutchbrit• 14 years ago

I wouldn't really call Zend "lightweight", I find it to be rather an overkill.. That being said, nice work!

Was this built on the latest stable release or on Zend Framework 2 beta 4?

pre6• 14 years ago

Latest stable.

And it's lightweight compared to Symfony, which the PHP web framework I'd previously used.

Show HN: My learn-Zend project -- A chat room on top of all the web's sites

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