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Reid Beels shared an idea in atebits on October 19, 2009 21:21:

Trailing whitespace should be stripped custom service URLs

The iPhone OS seems to insert a space character when copying and pasting the URL for a custom service. With this space character in place, Tweetie claims (rightly) that it can't find the server.

Similar circumstances can cause failed logins if a trailing space is left after a twitter username.

Stripping trailing whitespace would solve this. :)

Reid Beels started following the question "Missing Avatars on Tweetie" in atebits.

Reid Beels replied on September 24, 2009 05:54 to the idea "New Page Layout / Design" in AboutUs:

Hi Michael,
That's a bug. I've added it to our tracker and it should be gone in a day or so.

Reid

Reid Beels replied on September 14, 2009 05:54 to the idea "New Page Layout / Design" in AboutUs:

I think you'll be quite pleased with the further changes we have planned to roll out this week.

Reid Beels shared an idea in Shizzow on August 12, 2009 20:06:

Enable full screen for home screen iPhone bookmarks of m.shizzow.com

Enable full screen (hidden address bar) for home screen iPhone bookmarks of m.shizzow.com.

Drop this in the header.
<meta name="apple-touch-fullscreen" content="YES" />

Reid Beels reported a problem in Shizzow on May 10, 2009 02:55:

Menu of nearby results from Gears is labeled as "Favorites"

[Tiny, nitpicky, nomenclature issue]

When showing the results from Gears (and probably Geode) queries, the results appear in a select element labeled as "Favorites", even though these places are not my favorites.

Reid Beels started following the idea "Public Projects in Sifter" in Next Update.

Reid Beels started following the discussion "Welcome!" in Open Source Bridge.

Reid Beels started following the discussion "Multiple Gmail/Google "Connections"" in Soocial.

Reid Beels replied on October 07, 2008 08:21 to the question "Is there an Atom version of the action feed that is sent to Facebook & friendfeed?" in Dopplr:

Thanks! Because I didn't have any trips or activity in October, the "Show just your trips" and "Show just your activity" links weren't being displayed. I found what I needed now.

Reid Beels asked a question in Dopplr on October 06, 2008 22:27:

Is there an Atom version of the action feed that is sent to Facebook & friendfeed?

I'm interested in displaying the feed of when I start and end trips, the same feed that's sent to Facebook or friendfeed, on my website. Is there a way to access this in Atom format?

Reid Beels reported a problem in Shizzow on October 06, 2008 20:19:

RSS feeds do not include messages.

The RSS feed of my shouts only includes the location where I shouted from and not the associated message.

Reid Beels shared an idea in Shizzow on September 22, 2008 20:53:

Inconsistent sorting of shouts and messages.

In a list, shouts are sorted newest to oldest while messages (appearing within shouts) are sorted oldest to newest. I keep looking for the first message to be the most recent, but it is not.

A comment on the question "Whats up with the take on redistribution of SSBs?" in Fluid:

I've been looking into Air for a similar problem and have found that it's a great solution for developers who are trying to build a SSB for an application that they control, but lousy for anyone who wants to build a client for a third-party service.

In every case I've found, SSBs built in Air (not full-blown, api-accessing, clients) end up loading the page in an iframe that's sandboxed from the rest of the system pretty thoroughly. There's no way to customize CSS or Javascript of a remote page at runtime.

I'm looking to distribute to a pretty technical audience, so I'm in no great hurry for mass deployment (sending people to userscripts will work fine), but I'll weigh in that it would be a nice thing to have. Fluid already excels as a development platform, even if it's not meant to be one. :) – Reid Beels, on September 19, 2008 11:40

Reid Beels reported a problem in Iconfactory on September 18, 2008 21:56:

Twitterrific displays low-quality version of GIF user avatars.

Left: icon on the web, Right: icon in twitterrific.

User icons in GIF format seem to display at a very low quality in Twitterrific, as compared to jpg and png icons.

Reid Beels shared an idea in Shizzow on September 16, 2008 23:26:

There should be a 'leave' link on the homepage.

Currently, you have to navigate into a place's page in order to leave it. It would be great to have an interface to leave a place from the "You last shouted from" text at the top of the homepage.

Reid Beels replied on September 08, 2008 11:02 to the question "RSVPs and a Twitterbot" in Calagator:

That really is one of the best ways to learn rails, but Dreamhost's environment is far from the best place to play with things. I've tried running a few projects on their implementation but since much of their logging isn't accessible and several bits of configuration are set in stone, it becomes a hassle quickly. We'd love to support them, but at the moment it can't happen.

I'd recommend running the code locally to start with and then deploying to a cheap VPS of some sort (I use slicehost myself).

To get things started on a local machine, I believe the process would be:

checkout the code
rake gems:install
rake db:migrate
rake solr:start
script/server

(but I'm probably forgetting something, this is why we need to finish writing our documentation)

Reid Beels replied on September 08, 2008 10:45 to the question "RSVPs and a Twitterbot" in Calagator:

Wasn't that recommendation from the days before you could just run rake rails:freeze:gems and have it freeze the proper version for you? I'll agree that apps in production should be running with frozen copies of rails, but not that every project that uses rails should keep it in SCM.

That said... we've got a code sprint planned for the 20th of this month for writing real documentation and generally getting the code in shape to make distribution easier (we started the project in January of this year and haven't thought too much about packaging for release yet).

Reid Beels replied on September 08, 2008 10:30 to the question "RSVPs and a Twitterbot" in Calagator:

I've heard that freezing rails 2.1 into the vendor/rails folder will actually work under Dreamhost's configuration, but there's a catch...

Because we make use of solr, a java search server based on apache's lucene, we currently can't support Dreamhost's configuration.

Reid Beels replied on September 08, 2008 08:00 to the question "RSVPs and a Twitterbot" in Calagator:

We're developing against the latest 2.1 release.