Well, not related with Blockhead or StupidZombie, instead is the movie of the book World War Z. Looks like its getting a new writer, hopefully they will get right this one.
The book is epic in size, you have to wonder if they will be able to pull something like this out!
Yep, the idea is that when you update your blog that becomes a tweet. No there is always the issue of build vs. buy and on this case I think I rather build functionality on top of existing libraries for StupidZombie. Not very concerned about speed and rather keep the project moving forward.
So which is the best Twitter library for Java out there? Looks like Twitter4J. I’ll give it a try, but that also means I may have to add Cryptography to StupidZombie as the API requires the user / twitter password in order to send tweets. Or maybe not, as the API seems to support OAuth.
Using Java Desktop object I enabled this functionality for the 1.1 release. Now is time to code other features.
Finally I got some time to do something about the look and feel of the WordPress template. I cannibalized the default WordPress template and made some minimal changes (that way I made sure it was compliant with WordPress standards). Looks good and will be improved over time for now at least the website and the Blog look more consistent!
To give something back the community I also made this a downloadable WordPress theme (it will take some time to get it added to the WordPress website, so I made a link to the Kenai.com site.). It is also on Subversion on the 1.1 branch (under website/blog/wordpress/themes).
Enjoy!
Yeah, a feature I didn’t had time to add for the 1.0 release. Still not complete, but is moving forward.
Just finished branching StupidZombie 1.1. If you want to take a look on the code (making changes) then do the following:
svn co https://kenai.com/svn/stupidzombie~source-code-repository/Branches/1.1
So, what’s new? Well, some speedup came for free this time. I decided to upgrade all the major libraries of StupidZombie and some of them have important improvements in term of speed and memory utilization, like the usage of the new class ‘XmlRpcLiteHttpTransportFactory’:
HashMap result = new HashMap();
XmlRpcClient xmlrpc = null;
XmlRpcClientConfigImpl config = new XmlRpcClientConfigImpl();
try {
config.setServerURL(new URL(BUNDLE.getString(directory)));
xmlrpc = new XmlRpcClient ();
xmlrpc.setConfig(config);
xmlrpc.setTransportFactory(new XmlRpcLiteHttpTransportFactory(xmlrpc));
Object[] params = new Object[]{name, url};
result =
(HashMap) xmlrpc.execute("weblogUpdates.ping", params);
Next update is to fix (once for all) the menu handling in OSX. After that localization is the next milestone!
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The StupidZombie user manual is online now. Is a work in progress but now users will have a quick way to get familiar with all the features the program has to offer.
For the 1.1 the following features are planned:
– Soporte para EspaƱol
– Post blog updates on twitter (twitt)
– Post blog updates on Facebook (status update)
– Also I want to add more directories. Which additional ones should I include?
– Any other feature than you think is important and deserved a special place on the application?
Please vote!
Release 1.0 is there!!!. No known bugs, very simple GUI and functionality. However this is the road for the 1.1 release:
– Soporte para EspaƱol Ā”(si seƱor)!
– Update blog status on Twitter
– Update blog statis on Facebook
– More directories
– Bugfixes from the 1.1 release
So stay tunned and happy download!