On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 3:06 AM Russell Reiter <[email protected]> wrote: snip >> > >> > If I understand he/she wants to recreate an app. Does that mean reverse >> > engineer? Are you trying to recreate someone else's app without direct >> > access to that app? >> > >> > Are you trying to examine interactions with the app and predict what the >> > app will do, and hence "simulate" the app? >> > >> > You might also consider creating a _smart_ proxy, that lets you cache >> > results locally such that if you ask for the same thing a second time it's >> > comes back faster. >> > >> > Additionally by implementing a proxy , you can populate your own copy of >> > what ever data the original service is providing and study that for the >> > purposes of reverse engineering. >> > >> > This sounds like a great conversation to have over a $drink, and/or in >> > front of a white board. >> >> I like your last idea except I would have to travel about 2500 km and >> that produces its own 'fun'. >> >> Thank you for your ideas/assistance and if you know an easy way to >> communicate 'chat at remote' - - - well I'm listening. > > > I just came across this. Tim Berners Lee has just introduced his new SOLID > prototype for social media connections. You can register and check it out. > Its kind of spartan and developer oriented at the moment but is backwards > compatible while it looks to be forward thinking. > > https://solid.inrupt.com/get-a-solid-pod
This looks like it could become something interesting - - - if it is allowed to. My level of distrust re: web security and my privacy is high enough that I will be waiting for a while before I jump on the band wagon. Dee --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
