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Re: Ask HN: Review our app: masterbranch.com

#11

Post by savant » Wed, May 19, 2010, 5:52 AM UTC

I'm interested in seeing how you classified a developer in certain categories.

I just searched my Github profile (I am josegonzalez on Github, savant elsewhere) and noticed on the sidebar that it had a bunch of links to types of developers. One of them was "CakePHP Developers". How did you categorize me in this section, and will you make such methods known? I'm curious as I run CakePackages.com (http://cakepackages.com) and your algorithm is pretty accurate. Since part of that particular app is indexing CakePHP-related code AND developers, it would be nice to see how you are categorizing developer's repositories (I've been thinking of using PHP's reflection class to do categorizing for my purposes, but I want to know how to auto-find CakePHP developers themselves...)

I love the idea, and as soon as I sort out my OpenID provider (HEY ADD FOAF+SSL SUPPORT!), I'll be signing up for this service :)

Re: Ask HN: Review our app: masterbranch.com

#12

Post by ELV1S » Wed, May 19, 2010, 1:39 PM UTC

http://www.masterbranch.com/developer/nv/139036 "NV has worked in 2 Open Source projects."

It's not true. http://github.com/NV — 27 repositories.

Re: Ask HN: Review our app: masterbranch.com

#13

Post by masterbranch » Wed, May 19, 2010, 4:11 PM UTC

ELV1S wrote: post #12

http://www.masterbranch.com/developer/nv/139036 "NV has worked in 2 Open Source projects." It's not true. http://github.com/NV — 27 repositories.

Hi. We do not have all the projects yet, but they will be there soon.

Re: Ask HN: Review our app: masterbranch.com

#14

Post by masterbranch » Wed, May 19, 2010, 4:40 PM UTC

savant wrote: post #11

I'm interested in seeing how you classified a developer in certain categories. I just searched my Github profile (I am josegonzalez on Github, savant elsewhere) and noticed on the sidebar that it had a bunch of links to types of developers. One of them was "CakePHP Developers". How did you categorize me in this section, and will you make such methods known? I'm curious as I run CakePackages.com ( http://cakepackages.…

Hi, For the algorithms our inspirational reading was "Programming Collective Intelligence" http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321

As all the recommendation algorithms the basis is the text, and dictionaries with technologies, and of course a long time blacklisting words by hand.

We didn't think about ssl but, could be a nice feature. Is already wrote down in our roadmap. I like it.

About http://www.foaf-project.org/ give me some days and I'll put it. I can tell you when this is done through GitHub's message system.

We are really appreciating and considering every ideas all of you are giving here. Thanks a lot.

Re: Ask HN: Review our app: masterbranch.com

#15

Post by masterbranch » Wed, May 19, 2010, 4:53 PM UTC

stevenwei wrote: post #10

Hey this is a great idea. I know I'd rather hire from a pool of open source developers whose contributions I can take a look at ahead of time. I think your biggest challenge is not in finding employers, but getting the community of developers registered on it. I would probably position it less as a job hunting site and more as a 'show off your projects' type site. Once you get enough developers on the site then addin…

We have been thinking about StackOverflow info, but we have some doubts about it. How to measure, how to compare it with the code info, etc. We prefer first work with the code, trying to "do one thing a time and do it well". Nevertheless hopefully in a not very long time we will try to start giving tools to improve CVs with non FOSS.

Regards