Philip Roche » Aggreg8

Developing a Firefox Extension That People Actually Use

philroche — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:16:05 +0000

I'll stop venting my anger at faceless corporations now.

There's a nice write up on the tools needed to write good firefox extensions.

http://www.softwaredeveloper.com/features/firefox-extension-resource-072307/

Aggreg8 lives

philroche — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:37:10 +0000

This weekend I have gone on an all out Open Source offensive. I have released a new version of ACR (Automatically Create Rewriterules) with some bug fixes and faster processing of sites. I have released an updated version of PEA (Photoshop Elements Album Export) with improved accessibility and more options in the python script header.

I also started work on Aggreg8 again. I have a working version for Firefox 2.0 (not released yet) which will be my basis for my future plans.

Get Aggreg8 working on Firefox 2.0 - Done but not released
Get auto-subscribe working - Done but not released
Use built in Feed parser
Use SQLite for storage
Have an options panel
Ability to import and export OPML
Clean up XULs and Javascripts - especially the location of some functions
Add license to header of each file (MPL)
Create some nicer CSS stylesheets
Create a Norwegian language file
Change all references of Aggreg8.net (now a microsoft portal) to Aggreg8.org
Implement some sort of caching (although the aim of Aggreg8 is to be simple - caching might be overkill)

After 3 years of inactivity on the aggreg8.mozdev.org site. I am again on the active projects list and am raring to go with the above features. The aim of Aggreg8 version 0.3 is to be a super simple RSS reader with no fancy feature, just an easy way to read your RSS feeds. Using SQLite and the built in parser, I hope will improve performance too.

Aggreg8.net sold

philroche — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:31:09 +0000

None of you will have noticed that Aggreg8.net and Aggreg8.com are now actually hosting Microcosm which is a Microsoft portal of some sorts.

I was approached about a month ago to see if I would sell Aggreg8.com. Hell yes. I suggested $3000 as I could not be bothered getting into a to and fro debate on the price. I also offered Aggreg8.net for $2000. Both suggested prices were accepted and the domain transfer proceeded using Network Solutions certified offer service. I am yet to receive the checks but I am well chuffed and after £2000 in the last 2 months on car repairs - it is definitely needed.

I have since purchased Aggreg8.co.uk and Aggreg8.org so my Aggreg8 RSS reader will be moving there once I get a chance.