Oliver Steele

Last week I wrote a couple of tools to keep track of subversion checkins:

The Subversion Log Viewer is a master-detail list of recent subversion revisions. It’s based on the OpenLaszlo contactlist example. The nicest feature is really an afterthought: at the last moment, I added faces for authors; I think this makes projects a lot friendlier. Right now it only adds the faces to the OpenLaszlo log; let me know if you’re interested in using this for your own project, and I’ll make a public API for adding faces to a repository.

Jim Grandy wrote:

From: jgrandy

Subject: stupid Google game

Date: January 7, 2006 6:17:58 PM EST

Google for "unfortunately, yournamehere":

Lots of fun hits for "unfortunately, jim":

• unfortunately Jim’s orange dry suit made him look like a carrot
  
• Unfortunately Jim is no longer with us as he died of a brain tumor in 1993.
  
• Unfortunately, Jim did not respond. He disbelieved that it was an angel.
  
• Unfortunately, Jim is only one person with a limited amount of time available to

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Expialidocio.us is a tool for visualizing your del.icio.us posting activity. It displays a graph of your posting activity over time. You can select a timespan from this graph, and it will show you a tag cloud weighted by just those dates.

Expialidocio.us was inspired by a posting by Jon Udell. Coming full circle, Udell has posted since posted about this application.

openlaszlo.rb is a Ruby library for compiling OpenLaszlo programs. I use it to build this, this, and the toolbar here. This article describes how to use it with Rake.

Update: This is now available as a gem.