April 2009 Archives

Continuing my series of Action Streams plugins, I've added a new one for GitHub, since after all, if I'm using GitHub for development of these plugins, it'd be in poor taste if it didn't get its own plugin! :-)

Available on the Movable Type Plugins Download Page, as usual. Enjoy!

Since GitHub seems to be the "cool new place" to host open source code, and since I have no earthly reason to leave my MT plugins in a private repository, I've moved the code for all my Movable Type plugins to GitHub. The Movable Type page here will continue to have current information, as well as download links, for all of the plugins, but you can also obtain them from GitHub if you prefer.

The other nice thing, besides the cool factor, about GitHub is it gives me a nice issue tracker for each repository-- so rather than leaving blog comments here, if something is broken, you can now also post them there. Of course, I continue to read and respond to all comments posted here.

Just a few more changes today:

• I pulled several parts of unused JavaScript out of what Mnikr is serving, leading to about a 60K reduction (yes, that's after gzipping and minifying).
• I've increased the time the feed grabber is willing to wait for feeds; you shouldn't notice any additional load time, but some feeds that haven't been loading properly, now will, or at least more often. (Twitter's gone haywire, but that's not my fault.)
• I've added back @username linking in Twitter feeds, and added #hashtag linking as well (the latter to http://search.twitter.com, as Mnikr doesn't currently process hash tags). Hopefully this will be useful to those of you who have asked me for it!

Twitter data is now displaying correctly on profile pages.

In addition, the way profile pages are loaded has been changed, to allow for Mnikr's insane growth since launch (we are now tracking 10x as many identities as at launch, just over five days ago). Now data is loaded dynamically after the page has been rendered; make sure to leave feedback if you notice any problems with the new system.

Twitter currently isn't letting us pull updates from them. This is because we've switched to a new worker farm for update retrieval, and until Twitter authorizes it, there's nothing, unfortunately, we can do about this. ETA for a fix: 48 hours, possibly less.

Everything else should work as expected, however.

Mnikr is now live! Check it out, and check out the blog post about it at Times and Measures!