marcus ramberg

Dark Nebula Episode 2

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Van Helsing

We’ve just pushed a major update to iusethis, adding several social features and updating the commenting system with support for replies. To improve performance, we’ve also added a new caching system, to allow us to cache more data for logged-in users.

Find your friends

Looking up your contacts in GMail is a feature that we’ve wanted for a long time, but we did not want to compromise users by asking for their passwords. Now that Google supports OAuth we were able to implement it the way we wanted. In order to use it, go to your profile and click the ‘more’ link on the ‘friends’ sidebar:

Once There, click on this sidebar:

The system asks you to grant iusethis permission to access your address book data, choose the google account you use:

Then we will present you with a list of contacts who have accounts on iusethis. Just press the ‘follow’ link to add them.

Messaging

You can now contact users on iusethis directly. To do this, go to the user’s profile, and click the contact link:

Then just write your message and click ‘Send’. Just like everywhere else on iusethis, you can use textile formatting in your message. The message will be delivered to the user as a normal email, with your registered email address as the ‘From’ address, so that he can easily respond to your message.

If you do not want to accept messages from users, you can disable it from preference.

We also added app owners to the app page, in case you want to contact them:

Replies

@username replies has been a defacto convention on iusethis for a long time, and we’ve already been doing things like linking to users automatically, but now we actually support links back to the comment you’re responding to. This also means that each comment has it’s own permanent page:

For consistency we are now using relative timestamps for dates everywhere, and the dates act as permalinks. By default, we will assume you are responding to the latest comment by this user on the app you’re commenting on, but if you want to reply to a specific comment, you can use the ‘reply to comment’ link on the comment permalink page. We also took the opportunity to streamline the user comments page to be more like the main recent comments list:

Hope these changes are useful to you. If you have feedback, please respond to out twitter account, @iut.

Note: I do not recommend doing this. There are easier ways. But still, an awesome hack.

Some of these are obsolete, in my opinion (who wears a watch these days?) But others are really profound. Worth adding to your RSS reader.

Really impressive. When will we see pure CSS animated ads start appearing?

Longing for a more Mooseish DBIx::Class? Eventually there will be MooseX::DBIC, but if you need something while you’re waiting, you could check out MooseX::DBIC::AddColumn which lets you do Moose-like column definitions in your Result classes.

I’m mentoring a Google Summer of Code project to improve the Mojolicious test suite this year, and my student has just set up a blog to journal his progress. Check it out, you might even learn something.

12:27 <ribasushi> a call to all git-heads

12:28 <ribasushi> recently haarg did a seemingly perfect conversion of dbic from svn to git (a non-trivial feat)

12:28 <ribasushi> I am calling for people who actually know git to randomly poke at the new history and notufy me of whatever problems they see

12:28 <ribasushi> http://github.com/haarg/DBIx-Class

12:29 <ribasushi> (also you can ascertain the quality of the conversion, and potentially draft haarg to do a catalyst conversion as well – it took him a couple of freaking hours to do dbic)

12:32 <marcus> awesome

12:32 <marcus> haarg++

12:33 <marcus> it looks freaking good

12:33 <ribasushi> marcus: please spread the word to get more eyeballs on this, if nothing pops up in the next day and a half we’ll be  switching dbic over

Consider this me having spread the word to you ;-)

Thinking about submitting a talk for NPW 2010 in Reykjavik? The deadline for the Call for Paper is tomorrow, 29th of march, so you’d better hurry up and get that submission in there. I’ve submitted a talk, and am really looking forward to visit iceland. I’ve never been, but from the photos I’ve seen it seems like a beautyful place.

Yet another Perl MVC micro-framework with a name that will be confused with my wiki software. From the Author’s description:

(PoC)yet another sinatra-ish framework built on CPAN module.

Rather than ’shaggadelic’ or ‘dance’, this one starts the app with ‘zigorou’. I can’t see it catching on.