Nicholas Pike

Fear not… I have not abandoned this project – life has just been incredibly busy, and the extension was at a level of functionality that worked for me.  To top it all off my trac (issue management) database broke with an upgrade of python and I have not been able to fix it.

Last night I setup MantisBG on my staging box, and got it working with my subversion repository that currently holds all my code.  I have begun recovering tasks from trac, and putting them into Mantis – once that is finished I will begin work on the first Milestone for GCN3  (which will be a complete rewrite of the extension, that I started several months ago but never finished).

I expect the following in the first Milestone:

• Firefox 3 support
• Basic features, completely utilizing the GData API
  • Won’t be requiring users to manually import their feed URLs anymore
• The complete rewrite of the Core code will fix many many existing bugs that plague current users (thanks for bearing with me here folks)
• Better localization
• Other then that, no new features for Milestone 1.

 Google Charts API is now public, so I took a few minutes to experiment today: Placement Stats Pie Graph for Bungie.net (Halo 3 stats).

So whats the deal with Google Charts?  Basically you create a crazy URL to Google, and they send you back a nicely rendered chart to use anywhere you like – dynamically generated.  Using Greasemonkey I scrape the Bungie stats page to generate chart information, and then inject the resulting image back into the page.

Pretty cool – code linked here.