daynemay

Last year, for something to do, and to learn a bit about the Mozilla XPI extension architecture, I started writing a Thunderbird add-on.

Going for the region of the Venn diagram where “snappy” and “annoying” intersect, I called it “been2long”. Been2long’s raison d’etre, aside from my edification, was to alert me to contacts I hadn’t (uh…) contacted in a while. That “while” was configurable on a per-contact basis, and it worked OK for me for a bit, under Ubuntu Linux at home, and Windows XP at work.

Then my computer initiated some shenanigans late last year, and I stopped working on been2long when it was maybe (pulling a figure out of the air…) 95% complete.

Between then and now, I kinda lost interest in Thunderbird, and now I just read/write/respond to email within the (Gmail) web client. So now I’m thinking about building something similar for Gmail in Firefox.

That said, if you’re interested in using been2long for Thunderbird (1.5 – 2.0.0.*), then feel free to grab a copy of the XPI here^[1].

Thanks to other extension developers for code that I blatantly lifted from you, particularly Sebastian Apel, author of the very handy Birthday Reminder.

[1] Given that the accepted pronunciation of that file extension (XPI) is “zippy”, clearly Mozilla and I are targeting the same region on the Venn diagram.

Update: Goofed the URL for the (ahem) zippy download. All better now.

Every time I get hyped up for a project, I end up staying awake until 4:00am on a school night tooling around with it and getting everything going.

It looks like tonight’s no exception. The only thing is, tonight’s project was supposed to be an IMified bot. As it turns out though, getting the developer account isn’t instant, so I decided to screw around and get daynemay.com up and running instead.

I’ve owned the domain name for the best part of a year. Over that year, I’ve dicked a bit with the whole LAMP stacky thing, with an eye to eventually building my own content management jazz. But let’s be honest: whatever I can be bothered doing afterhours will pale in comparison to what the massed hordes of open-source geekdom have already achieved, so I went with a fairly painless WordPress install, and will now slake my tinkering urge by screwing with the CSS and the rest of the theme.

So, in conclusion:

1. I will not spend all my time writing about working on this page.
2. Mad props to WordPress for a sweet platform from which to work.
3. Fingers crossed for that IMified dev account.
4. Screw it, I’m staying up until the morning.