While working on PHP Shindig’s REST Atom interface I also added XDRS discovery support to Partuza, however such things are notoriously hard to test without a tool to send the correct Accept:.. headers.
Since this will also be quite important to test during OpenID and OAuth development, I thought an easy to use web based tool [...]

This is something that some people run into, they want to try out PHP shindig but it just ‘doesn’t work’; This problem is also known as ‘where is my /gadgets/ifr file?’.
The PHP version of Shindig uses something called ‘mod_rewrite’ to do url => action mapping, and on some hosts this isn’t enabled by default. Click [...]

Rajdeep who works for the Google Developer API Evangelism team that works on OpenSocial Advocacy, has created an Architectural Overview for PHP Shindig. If you ever wondered how PHP Shindig worked internally, this is a must-read.

You can find it here: PHP Shindig : An Architectural Overview

I’ll be speaking in one of the sessions at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco about PHP Shindig.
Shindig is a new project in the Apache Software Foundation incubator and is an open source implementation of the OpenSocial specification and gadgets specification in multiple programming languages. The goal of Shindig is to make it easy for [...]

While working on shindig i had the need for a test social network site to test the code, and as such a new project was born, to create a simple but full featured social networking site.
Since a project deserves a name that’s more original then ’shindig example SNS’, I named it “Partuza”. Partuza is slang [...]