Chirper

Chirper is a simple twitter clone webapp with an .NET ASP.NET MVC 4 powered front-end and a Cassandra NoSQL back-end

http://www.sinbadsoft.com/blog/chirper-twitter-clone-webapp-with-net-front-end-and-cassandra-nosql-back-end/

• Dependencies:

• Microsoft .NET 4 Framework
• ASP.NET MVC 4
• Aquiles 1.0 library
• DataStax Community Edition
• NuGet
• Twitter Bootstrap 2.1.1

• Tested With:

• DataStax Community Edition 1.1.6 + OpsCenter Community (http://www.datastax.com/products/community)
• Windows 7
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1

• Enhancements and Improvements: ]- Solution updated to Visual Studio 2010

• web app now runs using ASP.NET MVC 4 using Razor View engine instead of ASP.NET MVC 2 and WebFroms view Engine
• now runs using Aquiles 1.0 library

• Cassandra setup

Install DataStax community edition and OpsCenter Community Edition

** Verify cluster name in DataStax OpsCenter Community (top left corner of "Dashboard" view next to Cassandra version number)

NOTE: To open DataStax OpsCenter Community Edition, open a web browser other than Internet Explorer and navigate to http://localhost:8888

This is the cluster configuration you should have in web.config:

** Chirper Keyspace setup

Open 'Cassandra CLI Utility' (start menu -> DataStax Community Edition)

Type each of the following lines at the prompt:

create keyspace Chirper; use Chirper; create column family Users with comparator = UTF8Type; create column family Tweets with comparator = UTF8Type; create column family Following with comparator = UTF8Type; create column family Followers with comparator = UTF8Type; create column family TimeLine with comparator = UTF8Type; create column family UserLine with comparator = UTF8Type;

• Roadmap Moved to Roadmap.md