Posts Tagged ‘identi.ca’
iDenTickle updated, again!
I did it again.
I added more stuff to iDenTickle, again.
This time, I added the option of updating your gNewBook microblog.
I also added a handy little “clear” button.
Also, the setup and about “windows” are now just frames that appear in the main interface, rather than distinct windows.
posted with Xpostulate
iden.tcl v. 1.0 released
Moments ago, I released a new version of IdenTickle, the tcl/tk identi.ca and twitter status update tool..
Now it saves your login information, so you don’t have to enter it every time.
Additionally, I built installers for Windows and Linux.
(Mac and BSD folks, etc., will still have to install from source…sorry).
dent, tweet, xpost – all in one
Tweeting and Denting are now incorporated within the eXpostulate interface, so you can really annoy all your online friends, by x-xposting to 4 distinct blogging services, & denting and tweeting to announce your new articles!
At this moment, the denting/tweeting is still using curl, however, which is only native to * nix systems (should work on lin/bsd/mac without further configuration, but win users will have to install curl, which can be done, of course).
I will be attempting to work out tweeting/denting with tcl’s own http post method. I’ve tried a few times, but unsuccessfully, so far. Need to log on to #tcl at freenode and get some help, or something.
Additionally, I have also added some additional html tag insertion tools and insertion of dreamwidth specific user and cut tags.
./tony
Python v. Tcl/Tk: Denting & Tweeting
So. I have now made two little denter/tweeter programs (to send updates to twitter.com and identi.ca), one with Tcl/Tk, the other with Python. I figured a little comparison, perhaps, was in order.
The Tcl/Tk program, which has the added feature of displaying the server response, has only 47 lines of code, 245 words, 1844 characters. It took me less than an hour to write it.
I do want to make it very clear: I’m really not here to pick on python. I know that it’s a powerful language with a great many uses, and a favorite of a great many real hackers who know a lot more about programming than I do. I will continue to learn to write it, and believe it will serve me quite well for various purposes, and I believe I will continue to have fun learning it. But, I think I might continue to point out how tcl/tk is much easier and seemingly efficient, too…
Python v. Tcl/Tk (denting & tweeting)
So. I have now made two little denter/tweeter programs (to send updates to twitter.com and identi.ca), one with Tcl/Tk, the other with Python. I figured a little comparison, perhaps, was in order.
The Tcl/Tk program, which has the added feature of displaying the server response, has only 47 lines of code, 245 words, 1844 characters. It took me less than an hour to write it.
iDenTweetyPie
I hacked up a little more python/tkinter silliness.
iDenTweetyPie sends a dent/tweet(update) to twitter or identi.ca.
That’s all, really.
I have no plans to make a full-blown client for either site, just a quick-n-dirty updating tool. I would like, however, to figure out the pubsubhub thingy to send buzzes to google/buzz.
That would take some additionaly work, since, at the moment, iDenTweetyPie tells you that you talk too much and refuses to proceed if your update is longer than 160 characters, which, of course, isn’t necessary for buzz, since buzz tolerates longer updates.
I might work on that. I don’t know. This was just a little exercise, really.
I had already written a similar little program in tcl/tk, iDenTickle, which initially only did dents, but I have updated that one to send tweets, too.
./tony
identickles and other strange beasts …
I started to hack up a little ticklish client for identi.ca, the microblogging site.
It’s here: IdenTickles, on the baldwinsoftware wiki.
There’s not much to it, really…just a little tcl/tk gui to enter a “dent”, which calls curl to send it to identi.ca.
here’s a screenshot
Wouldn’t be exciting at
all, if it weren’t for the fact that I had Salma Hayek on my desktop wallpaper that day…
In other news: I keep hacking at the baldwnsoftware.com site. I changed the css colors, most significantly, today, but I’ve also decided to eschew use of the nabble news and forum elements I was using before, as well as the nanoblog I had built, opting rather to use this wordpress blog to post news of new releases and developments, and to make use of the wikidot wiki for any forums or other discussion.
In all truth, not a soul has participated in the nabble news or forums, other than little old me, anyway, so I’m not expecting much of a party here, either.
I figure maintaining the wiki is useful, and to that end, I’d like to move the baldwinsoftware wiki from wikidot to here on this server as well.
I’ve tried to install mediawiki, but am experiencing difficulties at the moment…
./tony