Sunday, December 28, 2008

Be a creative Commentator now!

Now, you can be a creative commentator with my new tool VComment. Its a tool where in you can visually paint your thoughts as comments. Hope, I am not re-inventing the wheel here. Yet another application using Google App Engine. But, its not available out of the box for IE users. [Prefer using FF 2+ . Can make it working in IE using some browser plugins. Not tested, though]



What to do with that?
One can use the 'Paint' and 'Eraser' tools available. The tools are self-explanatory. Use them to show your creative skills and then post your comment. Once your comment is posted, a mail will be sent to you for email verification. Then, the blog admin will be getting the mail to approve / reject the comments.

Technical stuff around this
  • An application built using Google App Engine.
  • Ajax enabled to send / receive comments from Server.
  • Back End script - Python
  • Canvas - Used canvas element of HTML5
  • User Interface - HTML, JS, CSS - Being a great fan of Google, have plagiarized their theme.
  • Mail API - Provided by Google App Engine. Pretty easy to integrate.
Looking forward for interested developers to take it further.

Update
I have enabled "Google Chrome Frame" plug-in and this tool is accessible from Internet Explorer now. :)

Demo can be found here.

--Varun

7 comments:

  1. What is your obsession with Paintbrush like things ? I remember you did something during college days as well in C.

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  2. @Sankar: That was done as a project...now as a utility...not exactly like the one before...

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  3. Too good Dude. Somehow missed this post. Why don't you improve it and take it to the next level?

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  4. @varalu Thanks dude. I m not finding time to work on these. :( next thing i m planning to work on here is generating an unbreakable CAPTCHA

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