I’ve played with Furl.net’s Site Integration and I’ve begun to wonder if there’s other content that’s useful in a sidebar. For example, could I take an RSS feed like CodeHaus issues submitted by me and turn it into a sidebar? Could I merge that with JIRA issues I’ve submitted and others to get a full watch list across several distributed systems? If so, I’m sure I could also do the same for open issues assigned to me. What about Confluence posts, and perhaps Subversion or CVS commits? Would it be beneficial? Interesting questions.
Sidebar content
[Pebble] Portable, ubiquitous blogging
This piece —
Alternatively, if you’re taking a laptop, you can have Pebble up and running on Tomcat in 5 minutes.
From Simon Brown’s JavaOne tips got me thinking. I could use Pebble to edit my blog anywhere, and use Subversion to keep it syncrhonized. I think it would work. All the config and data files for Pebble are text (XML), and they all live in one directory hierarchy. I can use a local installation of Pebble on my laptop, at work, and at home. I can use Subversion to keep them in sync, and ultimately decide when a group of edits goes to my public blog site. Perhaps I’ll try it.
It seems like Dave and Andy do this, but they edit the source files directly. I know that bloxsom supposedly supoports using Subversion, but I never got it to work. Blosxom uses files as well, but Pebble vs. blosxom is meat for another post.
[Selfish] Google should have a public issue tracker
OK. I’m selfish. I want to know what GMail thinks of the various suggestions I’ve sent in. I want to know if I’m wrong, if I’m being ignored, or if I’m shelved while some really cool stuff happens first. I want to see what others have suggested, and vote for things I like.
So it’s official. The Open Source way of life has permanently corrupted me. I want deep information publicly accessible. I want to participate, and I want to see the group’s reaction to my input. I don’t care so much about Google’s code. I want Google to use JIRA in the Open.
