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by savant 5873 days ago
I'm interested in seeing how you classified a developer in certain categories.

I just searched my Github profile (I am josegonzalez on Github, savant elsewhere) and noticed on the sidebar that it had a bunch of links to types of developers. One of them was "CakePHP Developers". How did you categorize me in this section, and will you make such methods known? I'm curious as I run CakePackages.com (http://cakepackages.com) and your algorithm is pretty accurate. Since part of that particular app is indexing CakePHP-related code AND developers, it would be nice to see how you are categorizing developer's repositories (I've been thinking of using PHP's reflection class to do categorizing for my purposes, but I want to know how to auto-find CakePHP developers themselves...)

I love the idea, and as soon as I sort out my OpenID provider (HEY ADD FOAF+SSL SUPPORT!), I'll be signing up for this service :)
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masterbranch 5873 days ago
Hi, For the algorithms our inspirational reading was "Programming Collective Intelligence" http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321

As all the recommendation algorithms the basis is the text, and dictionaries with technologies, and of course a long time blacklisting words by hand.

We didn't think about ssl but, could be a nice feature. Is already wrote down in our roadmap. I like it.

About http://www.foaf-project.org/ give me some days and I'll put it. I can tell you when this is done through GitHub's message system.

We are really appreciating and considering every ideas all of you are giving here. Thanks a lot.

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