random thoughts 03/24/2008

Convert Your Annotations to Blog Posts with 1-click

tags: diigo, to_blog

Diigo (which i started using lately) has this nice feature, to post specific tags directly to your blog... Let's see how it goes.

Flock 1.0

Well... Is there a chance that I am actually liking this thing? Could that be?

Ohloh

I've found out about this site called Ohloh It's a very nice idea, a social network for open source developers. It give a missing piece to the SourceForge concept - encouragement. It shows the projects you worked on, allows you to give Kudos to other developers, and track the project you love. I've added my profile, with some of the projects I've worked on. Take a look here It even generates a nice 'badge' to include on your blog: hint hint. this is something new i am working on.

12 Days Later

11 days 8 hours 1 minute 24 second = 16321.24 minutes That's how much time I wasted in a very interesting place called Azeroth. Word of Warcraft captivated me for months, but now it's time to let it go. I've reached the maximum level, I've quested, I've PvP'ed, I met some nice people, I met tons of idiots... Just like in real life. This was a very interesting experience, but I think I am glad that it's over. So long, Azeroth, maybe we'll meet again some day.

Seconds before the leveling to the max.

Just dinged to 60!

Face of the mighty hunter...

Something in the works...

Just dropping a little note here to let ya'll know that something is in the works at the Reflog's shop... http://reflog.googlepages.com http://code.google.com/p/pyterm/ More news to follow.

Fucking Flock

So...

I've installed this 'fine' piece of software called Flock... A Web2.0 version of Firefox or what ever...

It acted very friendly and offered to import a shit load of settings and bookmarks from Firefox. I agreed.

Then it suggested to use del.icio.us integration. Cool. I agreed.

Then this fucker imported and merged all the bookmarks in wrong folders and mishmashed them with the posts I had in del.icio.us. Blarg. That was annoying.. But ok. I removed them all, and decided to reimport just from del.icio.us.

And here comes the funny part. Apparently - when I pressed delete on my local bookmarks... It deleted them permanently from del.icio.us aswell! With no confirmation!!!

After getting pissed as hell, I remembered that I imported del.icio.us to Yahoo! MyWeb a couple of days ago. So I decided to save what's possible from them.

So I've used their API to get all my posts. Without using and SOAP/REST whatever, I just copied an URL from ther docs, and changed it a little.

http://api.search.yahoo.com/MyWebService/V1/urlSearch?appid=YahooDemo&yahooid=YOURUSER&results=50

This will return a neatly structured XML of all your bookmarks with their tags.

Then the next step was parsing this data, preparing it, and shipping it off to del.icio.us.

Here's when trusty Python comes in:

• Use ElementTree module to parse the xml using .fromstring method
• Use PyDeleicious for adding tags

All in all - about 20 lines of code.

So after 10 minutes of mucking around with python code - all my bookmarks are back in place, and Flock is in my permanent SHIT LIST (and I see I am not alone: flocksucks.wordpress.com)

This was a public service announcement from Eli Yukelzon. :)

technorati tags:python, firefox

Plugins

Here's a little preview of how plugins look in TurboBlog:

You can see here a 'Recent Posts' plugin, and a nifty little AJAX Chatterbox i.e. 'Shoutbox'. It took me about half an hour to write these, which is rather cool, considering this AJAX Shoutbox plugin idea that came up recently generated ALOT of buzz, for no apparent reason... Oh well. Have fun with it.
In other news - i just passed 111 posts ;)

Threaded comments!

Ok. Since I am closing on Alpha version of Turbo Blog I need to stop adding major DB breaking changes. But until I do - here's another major one ;)
I've implemented threaded comments! Yup. With a nice DHTML feel, pick a comment, press a reply and volia - an editor appears, and sub-comment can be added!
Sweet!

First shot at plugins

In changeset 25 I introduced a first stab at adding plugins to TurboBlog.
It was actually redicilously easy using entrypoints from setuptools.
To take a look how it is done, I've added a sample 10 line plugin that adds a 'Recent Posts' to the sidebar of the blog.
Cool stuff! Technorati Tags: turbogears, turboblog, python

RPC Backend

After stumbling in my own stupidity for a while, and with help from folks over at TG mailing list, I've figured out the whole XMLRPC thingie.
So now we have it in TB, and so:

1. Ping backs implemented (endpoint is '/RPC', method: 'pingback.ping')
2. blogger API implemented 100%
3. mt API implemented 100%
4. metaWeblog implemented 90% (the newMediaObject does nothing)
5. ...and we have trackbacks!

I'd really like to hear some comments on where do you think I should go next with this (i warn you, I will disregard any sexual references! :) ), what to implement next, and etc.
C`ya Technorati Tags: turbogears, turboblog, xmlrpc