StigmergicWeb

This is just a quickie braindump post so I have some notes on a bit of tweaking I just did on the school’s installation of Scuttle, an open-source social bookmarking tool similar to del.icio.us.

The problem we were running into was a lack of administrative control to get rid of undesirable (spam) links in the bookmark collection. Looking through the code, I saw that Scuttle does have a stub admin function included, but it isn’t currently implemented.  In a disgustingly quick and dirty hack, I rewrote the code for the admin function so that anyone whose user ID number in the MySQL database is automagically the administrator (and that happen’s to be me in this installation). Nicely enough, once I did that I had edit and delete power over other user’s links - the author of Scuttle has obviously been planning to include some administration tools, and started building a bit of code to do the job.

Samples of code available upon request - if you leave a comment asking for it, I’ll post it up.

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