Lateral Opinion

I wrote a while ago a RSS program called uRSSus . I expect I am the only user of it because it has some problems (all of them my fault ;-) but I really like it. ...

The uRSSus doc is slowly growing, so I hooked assistant to the UI. Not difficult, but I have not seen it elsewhere. ...

I decided to add a manual for uRSSus . Since it's a Qt app, I checked how to do one of those neat help files, like the ones that come with Qt apps. ...

So all the latest releases of uRSSus have a horrible bug: if you had never used it, it would not work at all. ...

Yay! ...

I mean, if google can get it wrong, I have an excuse, right? ...

Since I did some neat coding on it yesterday and today, I decided it was a good moment to release uRSSus 0.2.11 into the wild. ...

Yes, after months of doing nothing, I hve made some changes in uRSSus , my RSS aggregator. ...

So, I must confess something. I have not been using uRSSus for a couple of months. It all started on my vacations. Since I had only my eee, I ran into some problems and was forced to use google reader. ...

Of course I could be misunderstanding this, but it seems they included uRSSus 0.2.10 in a DVD for some reason :-) ...

A little over a month ago, on July 15th, I opened a Google Code project called uRSSus. Here's the commit . My goal was to try building a desktop application like if I were building a web application, using a ORM, templating, generic views, and other things. ...

Yes, sometimes I think a feature is much harder than it really is. ...

After 27 days of development, uRSSus is finally a really usable app. I miss nothing from Akregator, although there are a few unimplemented things. It was broken the alst couple of days, because I was rewriting large chunks of its guts, but the new guts work much better ;-) ...

I have been delaying this functionality because I expected it to be hard to do, then... it was very easy! Now you can create " metafeeds " based on queries. Here's the first example: " Post.important==True " . ...

It's running prety stable (at least for me) so I decided to fix some issues and add some features. First a screenshot: ...

Yes friends, my desktop feed agregator uRSSus has a brand new release. ...

I felt that a " user-friendly " configuration dialog for uRSSus was not a good way to spend effort, because I expect options to change often for a while, and I didn't want an outdated dialog, either. The solution? Autogenerate a mediocre configuration dialog! ...

Truly a paperbag release. But there's still hope! ...

Version 0.2.9 of uRSSus , my news agregator is out. Many new features including: ...

It was rather easy because I didn't do the hard part (thanks authors of pyrfeed!)and now uRSSus has a simple " import my subscriptions from Google Reader " action. ...

Mostly, I spent my two hours today refactoring. But also, testing how uRSSus looks on a small screen. Take a look: ...

I had planned to release a new version today, but there are too many untested features. A list: ...

Helped by the testing by vgarvardt, many issues and possible features have been fixed or implemented in the last two days. Here's an incomplete list: ...

At least three people have tried urssus (including me ;-) and over 80 have downloaded it. The two that told me anything say it's a nice app. ...

I have a twitter account. I never found a use for it. ...

I may have gotten a bit carried away with mootools: Combined view now has an accordion-like thing google-reader style. ...

Tired of chasing after other program's features, I took a detour on the original feature road: the combined view is now much nicer than Akregator's. ...

Yes, I released 0.2.0, and announced it on PyPI, Freshmeat and kde-apps.org, we'll see what happens. ...

I did a fair amount of work in urssus today. The highlight? database schema migration. ...

I spent the day bugfixing. Then, when I realized I was fixing stull like " when you delete a feed, the unread count in the parent feed is not updated correctly " and " if you go to Next Unread article and there are none, make the search wrap " I decided this thing must really be working right, since both things failed me in at least one similar program that claims to be production-ready (not akregator! ;-) So I am releasing it as 0.1.0 ...

Last post for the day, and probably until monday. ...

Image: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/2701090703_79e26937a1_m.jpg urssus8 by Roberto Alsina ...

My stated goal of Akregator feature parity is looking even better. With screenshot! ...

When I started this project I wrote: ...

So I did work on it a little last night: ...

Today it was a bit more than two hours, but spread in 10 minute chunks, which is not exactly efficient. ...

Yes, I am now using uRSSus instead of Akregator. ...

I confess I cheated and kept working on it yesterday after the blog post. OTOH, I will not touch it today ;-). Big functionality added, too. ...

Another day, another two hours of work on it. ...

Today's 2 hours: ...

I worked on uRSSus for a couple of hours again, and it's working pretty nicely. ...

I started this as an experiment to see how hard it was to build apps using QT and Elixir. This is how it looks after two hours of coding: ...