Ok, I’m overdue for a ‘weekly’ status report. I’m going to try to kick this back into gear as it helps you out there track things and me feel like I’m moving forward by writing down all the little things I’ve done over the last bit.
Trello board to keep up to date: https://trello.com/board/bookie/4f18c1ac96c79ec27105f228
New Projects
In an effort to add some features to Bookie I’ve ended up starting two new repos of code meant to interact with Bookie.
This is meant to start taking over the work of reading the page content and readable parsing the important content out. It was a chance to play with Tornado and Heroku. This also means that in the future I’ll be able to scale out the readable processing serperatly from the main Bookie website and host. It’s pretty bare bones right now and doesn’t directly talk to Bookie, but I’ll look at adding that integration soon as the API stabilizes and I get more tests going in it.
So far the Heroku bit has been pretty awesome. I have to deal with the fact that the app gets shut down and has to restart on first request, but hopefully that gets better as traffic and use picks up. You can tinker with it at http://readable.bmark.us
I’ve been wanting to start up a command line client for some of the Bookie work. The big thing is that I need tools to help manage invites and such. So it’s currently very admin centric, but eventually I’d like to get this into a ncurses cool command line interface to pull up recent bookmarks and even do some quick searches via the API. Aren’t API’s cool. This will also contain the reference Python API implementations so we’ll have two implementations soon. One in JS and one in Python.
I’ve got a beta version (which is really an alpha) up on PyPi so you can
$ pip install bookie_api $ bookie ping
Build baby build
I spent some quality time with http://build.bmark.us to get the JS tests running via grover and phantomjs and that’s awesome. I also added the new projects into the builder as well. So, while I don’t have all the tests I need, at least now the ones I do have run consistantly.
Other little tweaks
- Prettied up the new user invite email and landing page
- Fixed a bug with dupe tags in the tagcontroller
- Added more icons from the fontawesome set to pretty up the ui, especially the account page.
- Lots of changes to the make/build steps for JS and CSS including actually doing the pyscss transition.
- Everything is now on the final stable release of YUI 3.5. It’s been a good ride through the development releases.
