pesta has just been migrated to the ASP .NET MVC model, which is now called pestaServer and mainly acts as the gadget server. Also, pesta.NET.dll now no longer relies on IKVM libraries and shindig.dll. Therefore, raya which is dependent on pesta.NET.dll is no longer reliant on IKVM and shindig.dll. Woohoo! To clarify things ... The following diagram shows the current relationship between th... [More]

The most valuable asset that any website can have is its users. As the number of users increases, the value of the site increases as stated by Metcalfe's law. In economic terms, this is the network effect. On websites and social networks this translates to .. "keep the users coming back".   The best scenario would be one where the user is tied to the site becaus... [More]

Progress into integrating Partuza and Shindig into Pesta/Raya has been slow last week. At the moment, I'm sorting out failed tests from running Pesta/Raya against the OpenSocial compliance tests as well as looking into getting OAuth tested and working correctly. Currently, 107 tests passes and hopefully I will create a demo site in a shared hosting environment soon.Some recent issues that... [More]

Currently, I am in the process of integrating Partuza into Pesta. This 'Partuza .NET' port is tentatively called Raya, which is Malay/Indonesian for celebrate. So far the following has been tested and works well  view/add/delete/update Person view/add/delete/update ApplicationRaya is being based on ASP .NET 3.5 using the new Microsoft MVC model and LINQ. This is my first time usi... [More]

Since Pesta is a direct port of Shindig. The following is an updated Architectural Overview of the Shindig Architecture. The main changes in Pesta are the use of HTTP Handlers to replace to equivalent java servlets in Shindig.

Currently, pesta is dependent on a few java libraries. This includes caja-r2438 commons-beanutils-1.7.0 commons-beanutils-core-1.7.0 commons-betwixt-0.8 commons-codec-1.3 commons-digester-1.7 commons-lang-2.3 google-collect-snapshot-20080321 htmlparser-1.0.7 icu4j-3.8 jdom-1.0 json_simple-r1 nekohtml-1.9.9 xercesImpl-2.6.2 Ok, not really 'a few' but it could have been worse. Nor... [More]

Pesta was built using Visual Studio 2008 and requires .NET Framework 3.5. Support for .NET Framework 2.0 is possible by using List<> instead of HashSet<> collections. The following describes the necessary steps to get a sample site using Pesta. Details pesta contains 2 main folders pesta - The Pesta.NET.dll PestaSample - The sample site using Pesta Now, you c... [More]

I have just uploaded the initial release of pesta on Google Code. The project homepage can be found here and the code is available via subversion. Pesta is based on revision 698050 of the Java implementation of Shindig. Pesta is based on .NET Framework 3.5 and is implemented using C#. Out of the box, pesta is not completely complaint with OpenSocial 0.7. We are currently working on this. ... [More]