Nicholas Pike » firefox http://blog.npike.net Like nailing jelly to a wall... Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:45:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Coming soon… Google Calendar Notifier 3 for Firefox http://blog.npike.net/2008/02/28/coming-soon-google-calendar-notifier-3-for-firefox/ http://blog.npike.net/2008/02/28/coming-soon-google-calendar-notifier-3-for-firefox/#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:12:04 +0000 npike http://blog.npike.net/2008/02/28/coming-soon-google-calendar-notifier-3-for-firefox/ gcn3_coming_soon.pngFear 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.
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 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.

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