Technology Temple

Aloha again, planet Gnome!
This has been a nice week for my Google Sum­mer of Code project on Get­ting Things GNOME, fea­tur­ing:

• A great speedup (via the refac­tor­ing of how the file con­tain­ing all the tasks is han­dled): the time for adding 1000 tasks in GTG has been reduced from 30 to 5 seconds!
• A new test­ing class, which helped me find-n-fix a few bugs (ehi! test­ing works!)
• The first request to merge of part of my code  (~3600 lines). I have to thank my men­tor Lionel Dri­cot, who has found the time to go through it.
• A new twit­ter back­end. It still misses the UI to con­fig­ure the user­name and pass­word, but the basic func­tion­al­ity is there. Cur­rently, it adds to GTG any direct mes­sage match­ing a set of cho­sen tags (e.g., #todo).

I’m still work­ing on twit­ter authen­ti­ca­tion. I’m cur­rently doing it via the userid/password combo, but the cor­rect way to go should be Oauth. Unfor­tu­nately, python-twitter does not sup­port this. I’ve found a few libraries around the web, but none seem to work so far. Any hint  will be welcome.

Next week I’m plan­ning to fin­ish the twit­ter back­end, expand­ing the frame­work as I go. A nice thing is that, thanks to the frame­work, the twit­ter back­end (which is all a devel­oper should write to add a new back­end) is less than 100 lines long.

Aloha again, planet Gnome!
This has been a nice week for my Google Sum­mer of Code project on Get­ting Things GNOME, fea­tur­ing:

• A great speedup (via the refac­tor­ing of how the file con­tain­ing all the tasks is han­dled): the time for adding 1000 tasks in GTG has been reduced from 30 to 5 seconds!
• A new test­ing class, which helped me find-n-fix a few bugs (ehi! test­ing works!)
• The first request to merge of part of my code  (~3600 lines). I have to thank my men­tor Lionel Dri­cot, who has found the time to go through it.
• A new twit­ter back­end. It still misses the UI to con­fig­ure the user­name and pass­word, but the basic func­tion­al­ity is there. Cur­rently, it adds to GTG any direct mes­sage match­ing a set of cho­sen tags (e.g., #todo).

I’m still work­ing on twit­ter authen­ti­ca­tion. I’m cur­rently doing it via the userid/password combo, but the cor­rect way to go should be Oauth. Unfor­tu­nately, python-twitter does not sup­port this. I’ve found a few libraries around the web, but none seem to work so far. Any hint  will be welcome.

Next week I’m plan­ning to fin­ish the twit­ter back­end, expand­ing the frame­work as I go. A nice thing is that, thanks to the frame­work, the twit­ter back­end (which is all a devel­oper should write to add a new back­end) is less than 100 lines long.