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A comment on the question "How can i access the recent changes of a particular day in the past?" in Wikimedia Foundation:

the format for the from= parameter is simple: YYYYMMddHHmmss. But it will only work for recent dates, since entries on the recentchanges page get thrown away after a while. – brightbyte, on August 12, 2009 19:40

A comment on the question "https feed valid but not parsing" in twitterfeed:

support for HTTPS would be very good to have indeed. Why is it a problem?

In particular, I would like to be able to use the feed at https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/inde... - a high profile government site, unlikely to change soon. – brightbyte, on July 20, 2009 20:02

A comment on the question "How can I import my tweets into identi.ca?" in StatusNet Inc.:

thanks indeed, that works – brightbyte, on July 02, 2009 08:37

brightbyte replied on June 23, 2009 08:40 to the question "How can I import my tweets into identi.ca?" in StatusNet Inc.:

Ok now... I have connected my twitter account, i can post from identica to twitter. I see options to subscribe to my twitter friends (which i don't want). But I don't see my tweets on identica. What am I missing?

brightbyte replied on June 23, 2009 08:24 to the question "How can I import my tweets into identi.ca?" in StatusNet Inc.:

sooo... i can haz tweets now? what's the status?

brightbyte replied on October 17, 2008 19:58 to the problem "relative links are not resolved by bookmarklet" in Soup:

wow, that was quick, thanks!
...now i wish i had complained sooner :)

brightbyte reported a problem in Soup on October 16, 2008 08:15:

relative links are not resolved by bookmarklet

When using the bookmarklet to post a quote which contains links or images, the links and images break if they use relative URLs. The bookmarklet should go through the quoted HTML, find href and src attributes, and resolve them to absolute URLs based on the quote's source URL.

At present, I have to manually check all links in quotes I post. That's extremly annoying.

A comment on the question "Use with KOrganizer" in Dopplr:

I have written a little script and put it up on http://brightbyte.de/page/Publishing_... in the hope it will be of use to others. feel free to comment. – brightbyte, on September 13, 2008 12:09

A comment on the question "Use with KOrganizer" in Dopplr:

that does it, thanks :) – brightbyte, on September 12, 2008 21:32

brightbyte marked one of Tom Insam's replies in Dopplr as useful. Tom Insam replied to the question "Use with KOrganizer".

brightbyte replied on September 03, 2008 11:30 to the question "Use with KOrganizer" in Dopplr:

I have tried to upload the ICS file directly using cURL, with no success:

curl -v --data-urlencode @Dopplr.ics https://www.dopplr.com/upload/xxxxxxx...

results in "500 Internal Server Error"

same with this:

curl -v -F data=@Dopplr.ics https://www.dopplr.com/upload/xxxxxxx...

so... how would i get that right? If i "just have to post" the data, that shouldn't be difficult... what am i doing wrong?

brightbyte replied on September 03, 2008 10:54 to the question "Use with KOrganizer" in Dopplr:

Hm, googlig around tells me that iCal uses (plain) WebDAV to publish the data. I'm confused now.

Also... shouldn't I be able to read data from my private URL at dopplr? All i get is a 404.

brightbyte replied on September 03, 2008 10:40 to the question "Use with KOrganizer" in Dopplr:

Thank you for responding. Support for GroupDAV and CalDAV would sure be nice to have, you can never have too many interfaces for interaction, imho.

Anyway... KOrganizer doesn't seem to support "plain post" - is there some documentation for this somewhere? which fields, what encoding, etc? (how do you post to a directory, btw?). I might be able to set somethign up.

Using Google Calendar would be a possibility, but it would mean I have to use their web interface (which isn't an improvement, reall) or have to find a way to get Google Calendar onto my desktop (which is just the same problem again - because, sadly, KOrganizer doesn't suport CalDAV, only GroupDAV).

It always makes me sad to see data silos isolated by the lack of good standards :(

brightbyte asked a question in Dopplr on September 03, 2008 09:55:

Use with KOrganizer

I would like to use dopplr with KOrganizer, KDE's calendaring application. It supports iCalendar format and a number of calendar-server protocols, like Exchange and GroupDAV.

Is this possible? I saw that it's possible to use it with apple's iCal via a web upload system - what is that, technically? Some form of WebDAV? I was hoping that it would be compatible with GroupDAV "somehow", but it doesn't seem to be the case. I have also heard about CalDAV... is that supported yet?

brightbyte replied on August 05, 2008 14:32 to the question "How do I add the history of a page in the main article?" in Wikimedia Foundation:

The PageBy extension I wrote kind of does this, but i summarizes a bit more. Have a look: <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extensi...>. My News extension <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extensi...> can give a full list of changes, but currently not for a single page, only by namespace or category.

brightbyte replied on August 05, 2008 14:28 to the question "How can i access the recent changes of a particular day in the past?" in Wikimedia Foundation:

RecentChanges can not really be used for that. Two reasons:

1) RecentChanges only gos back one week (per default - Wikipedia has the limit set to 30 days) - see <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual%...>

2) There is no way to show old events. It's "recent" changes only. There is a "from" parameter, but that means "limit results to changed from that time until now".

I wrote the News extension <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extensi...> to pervert my own mediawiki installation into a pseudo block, and it works well enough, as you can see on the front page of <http://brightbyte.de>, giving a list of latest but not-so-recent updates. But you can not currently look back further, there's no calendaring function to this. I don't know if there are extensions that offer it... maybe there are.

A comment on the problem "Some feeds not updating" in Soup:

Thanks for looking into it! I'll poke Magnus once more. – brightbyte, on May 04, 2008 08:45

brightbyte shared an idea in Soup on May 04, 2008 08:43:

Allow JavaScript from friends only

In the light of recetn incidents [1], I suppose you will may disallow or greatly restrict the use of JavaScript on Soup. That is sad, though probably inevitable on the long run -- being able to freely inject javascript is an invitation to cookie theft and other nasty things.

So, how about allowing javascript only from people I trust -- i.e. my "friends"? Would that work? Would it be woth the effort?

[1] http://lakim.soup.io/post/2567828/Vor...

brightbyte replied on April 30, 2008 20:59 to the problem "Some feeds not updating" in Soup:

Me too, see wikifp.soup.io and fefe.soup.io

brightbyte started following the problem "Some feeds not updating" in Soup.