Updates
iRSS is finished and in private beta! … I’m really excited about that app for iphone, and I look forward to open it to public. It will have its own .com and has already been renamed from its development name iRSS. I already use it on a daily basis and it’s part of my life.
I started working on Sharup.com. Details can be found on
iRSS: final steps
Final steps Ok this part has been harder. The technicality of a user registration and everything that goes with it is nowhere near simple. Security measures, hacking protections and session management were only a few to point out the issues. It was also a lot less fun to write. No more CSS or HTML play. This was rough pure php user management. Anyway I manage to get it all working well! ...iRSS: moving on to step 2.
Moving on!
I now got the manage page sorted (kinda), deleting feeds works, the add feed button brings the panel and the autodiscovery is implemented.
I’m not too happy with the code. This time I didn’t use cake php or any framework so it is up to me to spit out decent code. I’ve yet to talk to thibaut about the best way of doing the clean URL and structuring the code a bit better. He is
iRSS: another RSS reader for iPhone is born.
Well, since I could not find a rss reader that I liked on iphone, I decided to make my own.
Mdigger was cool but I didnt like the idea of webclips. It is also pretty tugly!
I also tried newsgator but I hated the fact that I couldnt just add feeds from the interface! How silly is that? It does tell you the unreads but won’t let you manage your feeds!
As a native app on the
DiggUFO Launched
Digg UFO. An after-hours project, finally live. Have fun!
New technologies or shooting crazy?
The excitement around new technologies often acts as a shield for software makers to not have to fix their current shit.
It’s literally poops me that Adobe keeps creating more languages and extensions, new technologies, and yet, the IDE of Flash is still so shocking!
Some technologies, such as Director, seems to be floating in the AIR (no pun intended), with no clear future path.
If you want a viable growth for your potential evangelists/users, I think it’s
Plain Clip, freeware trigger to remove formatting from clipboard text
Plain Clip is a small Mac OS X application that removes formatting from text which is on the clipboard. It’s designed as a faceless application (no GUI), which makes it ideal for triggering it from a hotkey and launcher applications such as Quicksilver
I can see this being very useful for something like a CMS, or any blog based smart-ass interface.
It’s free and Universal.