Uploaded 06 February 2008 for Shelf in code (edit)
Shelf 0.0.11 (released 2008-02-06)
Feed provider now displays the first 10 words of the blog entry under the heading, and the entry date.
Add ‘birthday’ to the list of simple information displayed about a user.
I now use the Google Social Graph to try to derive a person from a page you’re looking at, if that page isn’t already in your address book. Likewise, I use the Google Social Graph to find out more urls from someone once I have one URL for them. So if your homepage links to your flickr page, and only your homepage is in my address book, I’ll still see your flickr photos when I visit your home page, and I’ll see you if I visit your flickr page. Magic.
The Google Social stuff is off by default - there are two preferences for turning it on. This is because it’s a privacy nightmare - it sends every URL you visit, and every URL belonging to anyone you IM with, to Google.
There are now some trivial preferences for how you want Shelf to display - the old default behaviours of ‘always come to the foreground when I have something to tell you’ and ‘window is always on top if there is context’ are now options.
Known bugs
The Dopplr module is currently broken, due to the odd SSL certificate Dopplr use. Sorry. Working on it.
The RSS feed fetcher shares a cookie store with Safari. This may or may not be a bug or a feature, depending on your point of view. Anyone care?
Technical changes:
Converted build process to use py2app rather than xcode, because I know how to make py2app dance to my tunes. Specifically, I know how to make it pull in external libraries and bundle them properly. Reorganised source files into folders so I can keep track of where things are.
Huge great internal re-write. Many more code-paths are now much more message-passing based, and can do things in the background. The Google Social stuff uses this, so no longer blocks the foreground thread.
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