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I built this because I wanted to know if there are any other Entrepreneurs near my place in Singapore. I never used OAuth before and I never leveraged any well
by mbrochh 16y ago
I built this because I wanted to know if there are any other Entrepreneurs near my place in Singapore.
I never used OAuth before and I never leveraged any well known API before (like Facebook or Twitter). Usually I use Python/Django for all my web projects but I felt that a full blown Django stack would be overkill here. So I googled for "python mini web framework" and eventually found "web.py".
With the help of the tutorial I got a prototype running quickly (3 hours or so). Another 10 hours have been consumed by the creation of my hourly database-updater (a simple Python script). Another 5 hours were killed by the creation of the client side JavaScript and all those pitfalls when it comes to asynchronous programming, callbacks and closures. I guess around 2 hours went into HTML/CSS issues.
Ah one more thing: I would probably have given up half way without this neat python-jammer-oauth project on github: https://github.com/lemonad/python-yammer-oauth https://github.com/lemonad/python-yammer-oauth