Looking for a bookmark manager/server

[Kirk Lowery]

On 10/19/06, Michel Di Croci <michel.dicroci at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2006/10/19, Kirk Lowery <empirical.humanist at gmail.com>:
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> > On 10/19/06, Michel Di Croci < michel.dicroci at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > 2006/10/19, Kirk Lowery <empirical.humanist at gmail.com>:
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> > > >  On 10/19/06, Matt Davey <mcdavey at mrao.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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> > > > > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 10:08 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> > > > > > Kirk Lowery wrote:
> > > > > > > For several years I've been using Bookmark4u, a
> > > > > PHP-4/MySQL-based
> > > > > > > bookmark manager, running it on my own webserver. There's been
> > > > > no
> > > > > > > update for more than three years and it's abandonware. No
> > > > > problem,
> > > > > > > except that moving to PHP5 breaks it.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I've been looking around, but there doesn't seem to be any
> > > > > actively
> > > > > > > maintained bookmark server out there. I've looked at Bookmark
> > > > > Manager
> > > > > > > (BKM), but that, too, is two years out of date.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > What are folks using these days?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > TIA!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Kirk
> > > > > > I don't know about everyone else, but I've really like the
> > > > > Google
> > > > > > BrowserSync Firefox extension.  I'm not entirely sure what you
> > > > > use your
> > > > > > BM manager for, so this may not be an appropriate suggestion,
> > > > > but it
> > > > > > works really well.
> > > > >
> > > > > I use onlinebookmarkmanager.com and am pretty happy with it.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ah, yes. I should have mentioned one of my requirements: I need to
> > > > have control over the server. So I need server *software* to run on my own
> > > > machine...
> > > >
> > > > Kirk
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> > > A do it yourself could be made. It would only require a DB and a
> > > simple PHP script. It would requires a development of about 30 hours from a
> > > small evaluation on my side and you will be able to put the features you
> > > want and the search engine you need. Also you could export it easily to
> > > different format that would allow you to import it in Firefox or Epiphany or
> > > whatever you use. There is so much of possibilities from a development side.
> > >
> > > You can start with the already done development of BookMark4u.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, this may be the best solution. I'm not dissatisfied with
> > Bookmark4u. So I don't need to reimplement it; I don't need (at this point)
> > new features. So it seems (in the absence of the existence of an actively
> > maintained bookmarker server) the best solution will be to port it to PHP5.
> > I can do that. I was just hoping I didn't have to spend the time learning
> > PHP, and more, the differences between 4 & 5. I'm an academic programmer
> > (meaning I learn what I need to accomplish my tasks) and am more comfortable
> > with python, ruby and the like and don't normally use PHP. Oh, well. Another
> > item for my CV... ;-)
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion.
> >
> > Kirk
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> Why don't you use ruby on rails?
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> Michel
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If I was going to reimplement a bookmark manager, Ruby on Rails would
definitely the way to go. But I'm hoping to find a shorter path to the goal
than a complete rewrite...
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