David Davis - Xantus

Burglarized

nobody@vox.com(Xantus) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:45:13 -0700

Our family business was broken into last night. :(

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Sprocket.Reader update - iPhone feed reader

nobody@vox.com(Xantus) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:31:24 -0700

I had this idea last night...I can let users subscribe to feeds without leaving the mail client.
I added all the feeds as messages in the [feeds] folder, and the subscription is controlled by the status of the message. See the screen shot to the right.

Feed subscription listing

Recent updates:

The inbox is a collection of all your subscribed feeds
Read/Unread status is preserved across folders (inbox/feed)
Browse all available feeds in the [feeds] folder

Add remove/feeds by setting the unread status on the message

A Perl SMTP server handles incoming messages and processes commands

Emails sent are not relayed
Emails are stored in the db for future review, so suggestions and bug reports can be filed easily
Commands can be handled, but none are added yet.

I may change the feed subscription model to a two folder system. A subscribed folder and an unsubscribed folder. You would move the message that represents a feed into the subscribed folder to add it to your reading list. This seems more intuitive than the way I implemented it. What do you think?

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Sprocket.Reader, news via IMAP

nobody@vox.com(Xantus) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:52:46 -0700

It works! Sprocket.Reader is an IMAP mail server that pulls news feeds from a database. I'm focusing on the iPhone mail client at the moment. It's easy to use and there are no downloads or mods required.

If you are interested in being a beta tester, email me at: xantus at xantus d.o.t org.

Here are screen shots of me reading Slashdot

Sprocket.Reader: Slashdot

Sprocket.Reader: Slashdot story

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Sprocket.Socket

nobody@vox.com(Xantus) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:21:42 -0700

Sprocket

My project, Sprocket.Socket must have inspired, Michael Carter of orbitd: Comet Daily: Sockets in the Browser

One thing he didn't consider is that you need data framing to handle raw data from sockets correctly.
For instance, if you are parsing lines of data from a socket:

This is a line\r\n
This is another line\r\n
This is

You received a partial line, like the last line above. You need to wait for the rest of the line, and buffer it until you reach a line ending, which in this case is \r\n

I'm a POE programmer, and we have modules that frame data, and we call them Filters.

I have written several data framing filters in JavaScript, inspired by POE filters:
http://svn.xantus.org/sprocket/trunk/Sprocket-JavaScript/js/Ext-ux/Sprocket/
JSON, IRC, Line, etc

I think having pseudo-sockets in the browser is very useful if done right. Sprocket.Socket handles multiple outgoing connections from the browser using only one long polling xmlhttp. A spare xmlhttp request is used for quick sending of data while the other is waiting, so it doesn't have to be woken up. All data is delivered in order.

Sprocket.Socket consists of several parts:

The framework, Sprocket
Sprocket.HTTP plugin. It serves files, fast. Including CGI's
Sprocket.Socket plugin. This proxies the socket requests
An access control module. Controls which hosts the clients can connect to.
The JavaScript library Sprocket.Socket. This handles the pseudo-sockets in the browser
The JavaScript data framing filters, and base class
Extjs, a rich js framework.

This seems like a lot, but I can run one script and fire up a browser to get it to work.
I have a working IRC client built on all of this :)

Stay tuned for more

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Ash Reiter

nobody@vox.com(Xantus) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:57:52 -0700

There is no doubt that Ash Reiter has talent. Just sit back, relax, and listen... If you like her style, let me know. I can post more!

Stumble & Fall

Ash Reiter

La Bahia

Ash Reiter

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Dreamhost promo keys

nobody@vox.com(Xantus) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:03:52 -0700

I just received some Dreamhost promo keys today.

676417881666
960545846804
053528690806
~~476292312145~~ - taken Jul 13
164667425961

When you sign up at dreamhost with these keys, you get four times the normal disk and bandwidth.

I'm really happy with Dreamhost; I've been a customer for years. My disk and bandwidth increases every week. I'm up to 592gb disk, and 11.9tb xfer which increases 2gb and 40gb every week.

Just sign up here: https://signup.dreamhost.com/ and use one of those codes. Please post a comment if you signed up, so I can mark it off for everyone.

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Good for one gallon of gas

nobody@vox.com(Xantus) — Sat, 31 May 2008 22:59:40 -0700

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Meet 'soup' the turtle

nobody@vox.com(Xantus) — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:03:22 -0700

photo.jpg

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In for a paint touch up

nobody@vox.com(Xantus) — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:03:59 -0700

Ford Explorer

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Pugsley eats

nobody@vox.com(Xantus) — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:37:58 -0700

Pugsley Eating

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