Comments on: Building an Address Book as a Modern Web App

By: Bill Seitz

Bill Seitz — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:37:35 +0000

I see you working with Tarawa in there. Did you like it? Is it being worked on at all?

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0xDECAFBAD » Archive » Blog » Hacking RSS and Atom is out! — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:43:31 +0000

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0xDECAFBAD » Archive » Blog » Belated Happy New Year! — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:26:20 +0000

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By: fluffy

fluffy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Don’t forget that with XSLT you could also rewrite it to SyncML and vCard and so on, so you could also sync it with external devices and iSync (assuming Apple finally opens up a third-party conduit system in Tiger, preferably one which doesn’t require .Mac to function).

By: eliot

eliot — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I'm looking forward to what becomes of this little app. Address book apps seem to all be severely lacking (with the possible exception of OS X's app) and need some fresh thinking. Making the components flexible could be a great way for some change to come about.

Keep us posted!

By: l.m.orchard

l.m.orchard — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Well, hopefully it's not too disappointing, but this address book app will be pretty anemic in terms of use as a serious app. Implementing an address book is just an excuse to run through the various technologies involved.

However, there's nothing stopping anyone (including me) from enhancing the thing when I'm done and making it into a serious offering with vCard support and such.

By: Bill Seitz

Bill Seitz — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

(Hmm, posted last week but it never showed up...)

What are you thinking in terms of having this data store actually used by, say, your email client?

Make it look like an LDAP server, maybe?

By: Chuck Conway

Chuck Conway — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

How Funny! I've been thinking about doing the same thing.

The only difference is I was thinking about doing address book, bookmarks and my RSS feeds.

Those are the things I miss the most when I am away.

By: William

William — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I’m curious to see where this little app is going its still needs more work

By: snook.ca - a collection of tips, tricks and bookmarks in web development

snook.ca - a collection of tips, tricks and bookmarks in web development — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Building an Address Book...

Leslie over at 0xDECAFBAD is starting up a "Building a Web Application" series of his own. He'll be building an Address Book which will be developed, as he describes it, using a loosely coupled architecture....

By: The Power of Many

The Power of Many — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Another piece of Mizzen

Reading Building an Address Book as a Modern Web App, I see that deus x has brought up another major facet of the personal social-network web app I'm speccing out in my mind: So, in the spirit of pico-projects, I've...