Going straight for Blam 2.0
I was going to release Blam 1.8.5 with a couple of minor fixes, but since it would be quite a minor release, I'm going to go straight for Blam 2.0
This means I'm going to start breaking the code in several interesting ways:
- The current GUI code has to go. It's an ugly hack and many things are provided by nicer GNOME/GTK standard code.
- The libraries are going to be worked on, even though I'm going to look for new RSS/Atom libraries. I'm going to try to use XUL instead of C to configure several aspects of how Gecko should work.
- The XML post-storage back-end is going to be ripped off and a file-based back-end is going to be implemented. This makes it easier to find out which posts have already been read. The Google Reader backend should be making it appearance when I finish implementing the other one.
As always, patches and comments are welcome. Check out the subversion tree and code!
And to think that when I first read a book about C# I decided to go back to good old C... Incredible what happens with FOSS.
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All Hail The Onion
I'm using the university's wireless network, but it seems like they have some sort of proxy: Any connection that doesn't go to ports 80 (http) or 443 (https) are closed with a 'no route to host' ICMP packet. This is bad, because anything interesting I can do with this network is right out (update git repositories, download mail, news feeds...)
"Ah!" I think, and download Tor (The Onion Router), set it up not to make the network angry and I'm in business. With the help of proxychains I can also use those programs which aren't designed to be used with proxies.
It's slower than what you get with the direct connection, but the alternative is not being able to use your favourite programs. I'll say it again, All Hail The Onion!
