Why I Love Ning.
[16:23] glukplus2: http://grindsmygears.ning.com/
[16:23] waxpancake: Wow, that’s vanity cloning if I’ve ever seen it.
[16:23] glukplus2: vanity cloning?
[16:24] waxpancake: Cloning a Ning app for yourself so you can vent about the pretzel machine.
[16:24] waxpancake: 
[16:25] glukplus2: the unfortunate part is that the process of cloning wishlist still leaves much to be desired
[16:25] glukplus2: but i like that i could create a webapp in 5 minutes to vent about the pretzel machine
July 12th, 2006 at 6:30 am
Oh, that’s a keeper.
Yeah, Wishlist still requires you to go into the config files to tweak it. We should give it a proper settings screen like most other apps now have, except it’d be fairly complex in Wishlist’s case as it’s all about phrasing, and much of the config is sprintf() strings. Ugh. There’s got to be a happy medium there somewhere, though…
July 12th, 2006 at 11:00 am
Wishlist is one of those applications that does a lot of pluralization and string-appending to make its labels, and I found that to be tricky. In the case of grindsmygears, I would have liked to have every label defined with a comment alongside that refers to its location. Another confusing bit was the background-image for the header isn’t directly linked to the app logo. I’m sure it’s a matter of just RTFM to find out how to address / include the app logo in xn:tag syntax.
I ought to try some more apps to see what the more modern config processes are doing! All I know is that I really didn’t have to do much digging to replace phrases with static quotes, and that it still was remarkably quick to “Get My Own”.