Demi Sauce is an application that offers web services to other applications. It operates as a server in your environment that other applications use like a software component using either Javascript embeds, or xml web services. Rather than building on top of a framework to get additional capability above your native app, Demi Sauce is all web service based to keep it separated but easily integrated with your software application. You would use it within your existing application by calling simple web services or embedding javascript into your app (like google analytics, but for comments, feedback/help etc. This allows the same content and services provided by DemiSauce server to be consumed within multiple applications within your environment.
Tools
- Comment System A javascript embeddable app to allow your blog, or application to have built in comment capability, great for internal apps to use across many apps, stay secure/inside firewal but enhance app with comments.
- Content Management Manage html to be displayed on your site.
- Knowledge Base Help system for embedding in your app.
- Feedback system Provide means for people to submit feedback, and admin tools to orderly ensure it gets handled.
Installation
News and Updates
- 6/29/08 - Activity tracking with Visualization, Group Ui tools
- 6/1/08 - Released new version of Demisauce, play with hosted version at http://www.demisauce.org or download and install it
- 5/25/08 - Have the Javascript Help System first release in
- 5/22/08 - Email welcome, Site Enablement (send invite by admin), background scheduler to send emails
- 5/16/08 - Initial Comment System, javascript based comment system to allow commenting on any page/content
Demi Sauce is named after being "half of a software app", it is to be used as a library not a framework, and since it is SaaS (software as a service) which I thought sounded like Sauce, i named it Demi Sauce.
It is a Pylons Python web app built using Sqlalchemy db layer.
A bit more in an initial blog post here http://apotlatch.wordpress.com/2007/09/15/service-oriented-software-and-the-cha/