We're currently building a MVP using http://horizon.io/, which is a self-hosted Firebase alternative. Reading this makes me a bit worried that we will run in to the same problems as the author. Anyone with experience in production apps built on Horizon who has some knowledge about these concerns?
From my understanding you can setup Horizon with your custom Node.js backend. So you're in control of your data and can manage your custom business logic
I've been working on a JavaScript API for Skype, https://github.com/oskarer/skype-js, utilizing the same endpoints as web.skype.com. Features currently working are login, receive and send messages. I have little time to work on it but it definitely shows potential.
This project sounds interesting!
Would you consider reverse engineering the Chrome plugin to add calling? (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/skype-calling/blak...) Not sure if the plugin uses native code, but it should be possible to grab the mic / play audio from terminal.
The web gateway is somewhat unreliable, and for IM purposes 'useless' compared to the MSNP gateway, which seems to be the main one used by official clients nowadays.
It has less documentation, but still is plaintext-over-TLS, unlike the legacy (and, arguably, less reliable as well) supernode protocol the poster has been reverse engineering for the past years.
Looks really cool, would love to use this in a project of mine. Is it possible to attach a layout to an existing react component and run it inside that? From the documentation I see that passing a DOM element to init() is possible, not sure if that's going to make it in my case..
you can create a layout in any DOM element, just pass it as the second argument to the constructor `new GoldenLayout( config, element)` - getting it to work well with reacts component-lifecycle might be a bit more of a challenge though
It looks very promising, but I was unable to find the answer to this simple question: How do I get my money from my bank account into the Stellar network?
> How do I get my money from my bank account into the Stellar network?
In addition to using gateways, as diyang suggests, there is another way, but you first need two things
1) Someone on the network who you trust. This may be your bank, but it could also be something else. I'm not going to tell you who or what you should trust, and to what extent, that is a decision that should be always in your hands
2) A path between the entity you trust and an entity that either you or your bank has access to.
Until #2 exists, you can do what the poster below just said: use a gateway. This is not recommended, as they are probably going to track you and it may not be always possible to deal with them in a humane way.
So really it depends on what your bank is, whether it makes sense to draw money from your bank into another form/service that is compatible with a service that stellar can talk to. What bank? What country? These things are going to matter on the global scale.
This post is about keeping everybody's copy of the ledger the same using a process called consensus. Even if there were no gateways, there still is the problem of ledger agreement, so we'd still need consensus. Gateways and consensus are orthogonal. You can learn more about consensus here: https://www.stellar.org/learn/explainers/#Consensus
