Tom Insam

Released Shelf 0.0.11

So, I have a new release of Shelf, having finally been inspired to put a bit of effort into the scary refactorings I was putting off. It's internally much better than the last one, though I still have places I can take it. Feature-wise, it's only a little better, though. Feeds look nicer. It should be fast, and caches the contents of remote feeds better, so it'll thrash the network less.

The big thing is the Google Social Graph integration. Disabled by default, because it's a privacy nightmare, I can ask Google who the current page in our web browser belongs to, to found out a person to display in Shelf. Once I've got a person, I can also ask Google what other URLs they advertise about themselves, so you no longer have to stuff dozens of URLs into your Address Book cards just to see interesting things about people. Looking at Brad's homepage is a good torture test..

I'm alwo working towards making Simon happier, with a couple of preferences determining how the window should be displayed. It's not all the way there yet, but I'm moving..

Get the full release notes here.