2010-04-26

mini desktop client

I dedicated last couple of days to learn about LJ API and I made a simple client with very basic functionality - you can only see your last entries and write new entries. Here is creenshot of new entry form

Unfortunately it Windows only so far, you can download it here

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install issues

Heads up: Ubuntu 9.10, errors with LWPx::ParanoidAgent and LWP::Debug

I've been getting this error message on my dev env, running 9.10, when I try to do something that connects to an outside website (such as importing icons):

"Undefined subroutine &LWP::Debug::debug called at /home/afuna/dw/cgi-bin/LWPx/ParanoidAgent.pm line 392. "

It looks like LWP::Debug was deprecated in the latest version of libwww-perl. Commenting out all the lines with LWP::Debug::debug and LWP::Debug::trace (in $LJHOME/cgi-bin/LWPx/ParanoidAgent.pm) makes things work again.

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summer of code

GSoC results coming soon

I wanted to take a second and remind everyone that the Google Summer of Code results will be announced in about half an hour! (Although I'm sure everyone's been biting their nails and counting the minutes anyway...)

We received an incredible number of applications this year, and our greatest regret is that we can't take everyone whose proposal was awesome -- not only do we not have the mentoring capacity, Google only allows us a limited number of slots. We had to make some very, very, very hard choices. (As an example, our first set of rankings by the mentors resulted in something like a 10-way tie for first place and a 5-way tie for second.)

Whether you get an email in half an hour saying that your proposal was accepted or that your proposal was rejected, please believe that we wanted to accept so, so many more proposals than we had the capacity to accept. We hope that you'll all consider sticking around as members of the community and working with us, and we'd love to see you in Bugzilla or in irc.

Thank you, all of you, for your interest in Dreamwidth. We really appreciate your interest, your effort, and your skill, and we hope to see more of you in the future :)

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summer of code

GSoC Results

Congratulations and welcome to the following students who will be joining us for this year's Summer of Code:

anarres: Business and usage statistics

chiming: RTE overhaul

i_xerxes: iPhone client

jportela: Polling system redesign/improvement

mayank: Desktop client

panna: Calendaring system

the_wanlorn: "Named guest" commenting level

We're thrilled and excited to have you guys. Welcome. :)

To those whom we couldn't accept -- thank you for your proposals! There were a lot of great things in there :) I've already had someone ask me whether they could do their proposal outside the GSoC framework, and the answer to that is, yes, totally, in most cases! There's nothing wrong with our users having multiple desktop or mobile clients to choose from, for instance. If your proposal was for something that touches the DW code directly, and someone else was accepted to work on the same thing, we encourage you to get in touch with them and let them know that you're interested in helping out. And if no-one waas accepted to work on your proposal, we'd be happy to have you work on it anyway.

Congrats again to those whose projects were accepted. It's going to be an awesome summer!