Version 0.7 Now Available
Version 0.7 of Buzzbird is now available!
Originally I had planned on holding off until I had a chance to finish implementing lists. As it stands, lists are currently half-implemented in the back-end code, but I’ve disabled it from being usable in the UI. Unfortunately, recent changes to the Twitter API were causing version 0.6 to have “401 Unauthorized” errors when attempting to login. Obviously, having a working application is more important than squeezing one more feature in.
So here’s what’s new in Version 0.7:
- No more 401 errors.
- Notifications! You can now configure Buzzbird to notify you when mentions, DMs, or plain old tweets come in. On Mac, the Growl framework is used. On Linux, I’m using the notify-send utility that comes with libnotify. Windows doesn’t really have a de-facto notification system, so I’m using the Mozilla notification system that comes with XULrunner on that platform.
- Issue 41: The Post button is now disabled when it should be.
- Issue 40: Implemented a pooling mechanism for XMLHttpRequests so the app won’t get constipated when network timeouts happen.
- Issue 32: Don’t truncate retweets at 140 characters in the post window – let the user decide how to truncate.
- Issue 31: Auto-close the post area after posting (this behavior is configurable)
- Issue 30: Added keyboard shortcut for “Post” action (accel + return)
- Issue 29: Focus should be on post area when user clicks Post button.
- Issue 7: Press Return to Post is now configurable.
Get it while it’s hot! Link
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9 Responses to “Version 0.7 Now Available”
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mehdi Says:
Please add identica to buzzbird
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Mark Says:
Retweet fails on 0.7 running with the latest Firefox (3.6.3) on Ubuntu 10.04 – might be unique to this configuration but hey no more 401’s- yaay!
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Mike Says:
Hi Mark, is the problem w/ auto-retweets, or “quote” tweets where you edit the output? Thanks!
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Gert Franz Says:
Question
Is it possible to use a different URL for the Twitter server? I am building a Twitter Application for the LAN so that you can use it in large organizations. The API will be the same but the URL would be of course different.Gert
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@Gent – should be… I’m working on refactoring out all of the Twitter calls into a separate module that I hope to make available independent of Buzzbird, which will support several services with twitter-esque APIs. Hopefully that isn’t too far off.
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Luke Says:
Hi, just thought I’d throw some kudos your way. Love using Buzzbird. It’s the only light-weight Twitter client I’ve found that suits how I use Twitter AND doesn’t require Adobe Air. Thanks for the product!
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Thank you thank you! Comments like this keep me going!
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clicking the retweet button does nadas… in order to retweet I manually copy the tweet to a post…
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Yeah, it seems to be for the “auto retweets.” I’ve fixed the cause of the issue locally (I’ll push it up to github tonight), but strangely, it’s still not rendering the retweeted tweet… I’m not sure yet whether it’s an issue w/ the API or the rendering code. Still looking into it!
