Nachdem Ende August die "OAuthcalypse" eintrat und Twitter externe Anwendungen seitdem nur noch per OAuth authentifiziert, musste auch das entsprechende Plugin für Serendipity angepasst werden. Am vergangenen Wochenende hat Garvin Hicking diese Funktionalität mit Hilfe der Community umgesetzt. Ich freue mich, dass ich dabei behilflich sein konnte. Momentan ist eine Testversion des Plugins hier zum Download verfügbar. Sollten keine Fehler mehr auftreten, dürfte die neue Version bald auch über den Serendipity-eigenen Installer SPARTACUS augeliefert werden.
Zu OAuth hatte ich ja im Rahmen der PHP Usergroup Rheinhessen im März einen kurzen Vortrag gehalten. Aufgrund der Umstellung bei Twitter ist OAuth mittlerweile wohl im Mainstream angekommen. Finde ich gut. Jetzt wird bereits über OAuth 2.0 diskutiert.
I've fallen deeply in love with JavaScript libraries like jQuery in the past months. There's so much cool stuff you can do by simply including one ore more .js files to your web site. Be it form validation, GUI-like elements, or just toggling the visibility of block elements. Image overlay effects like Lightbox or Thickbox are based on these libraries, too.
So I decided it was about time we had those libs in Serendipity. We need them to create a more intuitive user experience both in the frontend and the backend. Especially in the backend, where other blog tools like Movable Type 4 look much slicker to me. Anyway, I sat down and hacked together a new plugin for S9y that lets you include jQuery and some of its plugins, mootools (including many extensions in one file), and Prototype in your web site. You can choose between frontend and backend display and select single plugins for jQuery (my favorite lib right now). I would really appreciate it if some S9y users/developers would download and install the plugin and give me feedback on it (forum seems to be down, but there's already a thread on this).
To give you an idea of what could be done with it, I edited the default admin templates, got rid of all the tables and exchanged them for divs. Then I added some tabs to the "edit entry" area with the help of the tabs plugin for jQuery. You can see the result if you open the
s9y_tabs.ogg
of the desktop session I recorded with Istanbul (in Ogg Theora format, no sound).
I created an account at Yahoo!'s Upcoming some time ago. One of the features I like about Upcoming is that events are marked up with the hCalendar microformat. But if you subscribe to the RSS feed of your Upcoming events and include them in your blog's sidebar, all markup is lost, of course. So, I've hacked some new feature into my microformats plugin: It's now possible to subscribe to an events feed and merge this feed with the events that are manually entered via my plugin. The result is displayed in the sidebar with full hCalendar goodness. Check it out in my sidebar, and compare it with my page at upcoming.org. The plugin needs some cleanup 'cause it contains dirrrty hacks, but I will release it soon. I might also include the new and shiny wevent, a German Upcoming clone, and Google Calendar.
Garvin posted the news to the official Serendipity blog: Thanks to rrichards you can now log in to your S9Y blog with your OpenID. Which is a great thing, especially for people who actually use OpenID (like me). Testers are still needed for this plugin, but I installed without any problems. So don't expect any trouble
To cut a long story short: After lots of hours of work I just committed a new version of my microformats plugin with lots of new features and bugfixes to CVS. Should be available through Spartacus soon. See my newly set up documentation page for more info. I need to go to bed now, but I promise that I will soon post more on this beautiful little plugin
Nachdem Ende August die "OAuthcalypse" eintrat und Twitter externe Anwendungen seitdem nur noch per OAuth authentifiziert, musste auch das entsprechende Plugin für Serendipity angepasst werden. Am vergangenen Wochenende hat Garvin Hicking diese Funktionalität mit Hilfe der Community umgesetzt. Ich freue mich, dass ich dabei behilflich sein konnte. Momentan ist eine Testversion des Plugins hier zum Download verfügbar. Sollten keine Fehler mehr auftreten, dürfte die neue Version bald auch über den Serendipity-eigenen Installer SPARTACUS augeliefert werden.