The Web Semantic

The googlecode wiki system allows you to insert google gadgets into your pages, as well as the front page of your open source project.  Do this by using using the wiki:gadget tag:

<wiki:gadget width="450" height="365" border="0" url="http://link/to/mygadget.xml" title="title of your gadget" />

That’s the easy part…the xml file describes the content you’d like google to “iframe” into you wiki page.

<Module>
<ModulePrefs title="Developer Forum" />
<Content type="html">
<![CDATA[
your stuff here
]]>
</Content>
</Module>

The simplest thing to do is host this file within your SVN repo. To see and example here’s my xml file that includes and embed for a related screen toaster demo.  I merely took the HTML code suggested on screentoaster and placed it in the gadget module descriptor.

This post describes how to make a maven repo for your google code project.  I’m a big fan of google code.  It’s a tremendous service for those looking for a place to host their open source code.  The only thing I lacked was a maven repo.  I have to be honest here, while I use maven, it’s still a big mystery to me how things end up in the main maven repo.  If Google were to add one new feature, I’d prefer it be a maven repo and hudson build that autodiscovers maven projects and builds them…but we’re not there yet, so the question I’m going to answer is how you can provide a maven repo for your open source customers hosted on google code.   » Read the rest of this entry «