OK, I’m not sure of the protocol on this, but since it’s now released into wild I guess I can brag a little. I’ve done a bit of work on the side for Intense Debate and the first fruits are showing up:
I have newer versions and I’m working on a bloglines beta addon now. Fun fun!
UPDATE: Looks like the beta release of the first two addons is official now.
I’ve upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.6, and tried to tidy up a bit. My favorite trick for today came from here, where the author discusses a “geek switch” to turn off his more technical material. I have a Chatter category that’s in the same boat – sometimes I want to see it, sometimes I don’t. And I don’t want first-time visitors to have to see it.
I modified the original author’s toggle approach a bit, widgetized, with a touch more Javascript and updated for WordPress 2.6. You can see the toggle in the sidebar to the right, try clicking on it. Pretty fun eh?
See my Toggle Category wiki article for the gory details on setting this baby up. I <3 WordPress.
Lots of people have been doing this style of web mashup for a long time. Things are now stable enough, even in FF3, that you can jump in and get ramped up super-fast.
Bring all your honed software development skillz, or things will get messy fast. Get mashing!
Also check out chickenfoot for another way to go.
Using Eclipse 3.4 for Java work on Windows, working without a hitch on our fairly large code base. It was actually easier to set up the project than with 3.3. The correct Java version was selected based on the code, the correct libraries were included – I had to do both of those steps manually for our code base using Eclipse 3.3.
Also using the CDT perspective for C++. Haven’t actually built or debugged anything yet, but it’s nice for browsing code. Upwards and onwards.
The personal information manager Chandler rocks the house.
Unfortunately, it was a target of the Wired hype machine, labeled as the “Outlook killer”, half a decade ago. It was also the subject of a full-length book about software development failure. Its founder (and FUNDER) recently left the project. Apparently, pretty much everyone that has been following the project for any length of time (fortunately I’m not in that group!) has doomed it. So, with everything going against it, it was apparently time for the devs to step it up.
The 0.7.7 release is absolutely humming on my linux and Windoze boxxen. They all sync to a central web server (the “Hub”) that the Chandler project maintains. Then you also get a really nicely done functioning AJAX website to manage your tasks. It’s all open source, so maybe some day I’ll set up my own server (I’m naive like that, and stubborn too, so I might pull it off). In the meantime, I’m synced and happy.
The snag I hit in setting it up was getting Chandler to sync through a proxy. I chatted with the devs on the #chandler channel on FreeNode, they helped me through it. I filed a bug that explains the workaround they provided, added a new FAQ entry, and while I was at it, added a request for an official gentoo ebuild. Whoop.
