Big Design Upfront: Delicious RSS Importer

In my last post, I introduced the mockups of a half-baked idea: Delicious RSS Importer. I was trying to explain the idea this past week and quickly realized that I need to put together some visuals to how this will work.

I’m not backsliding into an old habit of BDUF. I’ll keep this brief and use this latest post to simply work out the plan of how the major pieces fit.

Here’s the current intent:

Delicious RSS Importer Architecture

Basically we need to have a server-side piece to proxy the data requests from Delicious and external RSS feeds. Those results are then stored client-side using Google Gears.

The other concern is that NO passwords are stored externally. Once you setup Delicious RSS Importer for your environment, your credentials remain private.

Finally, I managed to setup a dedicated project space for this work with the good folks at SourceForge.