Code Painted By Philipp Söhnlein

I released TeaTimer 1.1 today. This version includes the following changes:

• Twitter Support: TeaTimer can send a tweet when you started a countdown and/or when this countdown has finished.
  Here is a screenshot of the settings screen:
  
• Thanks to the people at Babelzilla a turkish locale was added.
• I removed the polish locale, because it I haven't found someone who could translate the new terms needed for this version. I will come back, when the translation can be complete.
• TeaTimer is working with Firefox 3.5, too.

As always, I´d love to read some feedback, especially on the AMO page of TeaTimer..

Happy brewing!

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teaTimer-1.1-fx.xpi (1.4 MiB)

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I recently released two SearchPlugins for Firefox, that may be handy for you Perl programmers out there:

1. CPAN search
2. CPAN search (modules only)

I hope these are useful for you. Please don't hesitate to review them on AMO.

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I have two bad news:

1. It seems, that Spambots found my bugtracker and thought that it is a reasonable target for their spamposts. I removed the spam tasks and upgraded to the neweset stable version of the my bugtracker software Flyspray. Anti-Spam-measures are planned for the next version, but the current betas didn't work and it seems, that we still have to wait some time until Flyspray 1.0 will be released. If the update will not help, I unfortunately have to remove the support for adding features without a account.
2. I got a negative response from AMO (after 7 weeks) according to my public nomination request of TeaTimer 1.0. The reason given was mainly a lack of ratings.

But there are good news: I recognized today, that the number of ratings has raised to 5, so I started with the work on version 1.1, which will include Twitter support. When this version is done, I will try my luck again and make a new public nomation request on AMO.

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Yeah, finally the 1.0 has seen the daylight.

Let's go directly to the features of this release. The bad news first: For the english speaking users, there are no new features. But all the others may be happy to read, that TeaTimer is now available in different languages. Currently included locales are: English, French, German and Polish.

I really have to say thank you to my two translators: Hannah Meyer (responsible for the french locale and for checking my english locale) and Paweł Sobczak (responsible for polish locale). They did most of the work for this release, so let's give them some applause.

If you are interested in getting some honour and applause, too, you can contribute a locale in another language. Please contact me, if you are interested.

Oh, and there was one minor bugfix, please look at the corresponding page in my bugtracker for more informations.

Okay, enough blabla now. You can still download the extension from here, because the nomation proccess at AMO isn't completed, yet.

Happy brewing!

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teaTimer-1.0-fx.xpi (1.4 MiB)

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I thought about the roadmap and decided to realize locale support first.

That means, for you as user, it's possible that TeaTimer will speak your language in the next release.
But, that means, for you as translator, you have the chance here of working on this new upcoming project. It's not so much work to do here, I think experienced people can do the job in about one hour. So, if you want to see your name in the list of contributors, please contact and tell me which language you want to translate for. Thank you.

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1.0 is getting closer, because with these words I release TeaTimer 0.9 into the wild!

The only new feature is described quickly: I implemented an icon only mode. That means, if you don't want to see the remaining time (including the change of the time every second, which might be too distractive for some people) you can right click at the TeaTimer and choose “Show Icon only” at the top. Here are two little screenshots:

Hope you like the new feature.

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I just released the next version of TeaTimer this morning. It has 4 mentionable things I want to introduce:

1. First of all TeaTimer can now sort teas in the main context menu by name or time. You can change this behaviour in the options window.
   This feature was realized because of a feature request from user Jan. If you have some ideas or if you need a certain feature, you can comment here or you can open a new task on my bugtracker.
2. Apropos options window… The options window is now also available at the add-on centre of your Firefox installation.
3. I did a bigger internal change with storing all the preferences and teas. If you want all the dirty details, see FS#13 of my bugtracker.
4. And finally I did a clean up function, which takes care, that no garbage is left, when TeaTimer is going to be uninstalled.

I hope you have some fun with the new features.
If you like the extension, please leave a rating at AMO. I still want to have more good ratings, before I'm going to nominate my extension for moving it into the public area.

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Update time! TeaTimer 0.7 brings two new cool features to you, which will (hopefully) satisfy your visual needs:

1. TeaTimer has now an icon. It's based on a great work of my new favorite canadian artist Konstantino Kapetaneas who gave me permission to use and edit his icon. Thanks again, man!
2. A new alert type is also included: The Websitewidget alert.
   This alert will show a layer over the website you are currently reading. Here is an example:
   The widget will disappear after a configurable time and of course you can activate or deactivate it in the options.

And I fixed a problem which only occurred in Firefox3: The statusbar alert could only be cleared, when the font was visible. This is fixed now.

If you have any comments about this release, please use the comment function of this blog. If you prefer email you can write to me@phil-soehnlein.de or you can jabber me with the same address.

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Because TeaTimer is still sandboxed, you can download this release directly from this page, but I recommend downloading it from AMO, because you will get an automatic notification, if there's an update.

teaTimer-0.7-fx.xpi (1.3 MiB)

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I put TeaTimer 0.6 on AMO. Included are all features I described in the previous post.

The only problem is: I decided to make all extensions only available on AMO directly. But, since this is my very first extension, it's currently held in the “sandbox” – a special area for extensions, that are not tested widely (Debian users would say, it's in unstable or testing.). To install sandboxed extensions you are forced to have a account there. I don't like that fact and I don't want anyone to force to create an account at AMO. So, as long as my extension is sandboxed, I will release the package here, too.

Please leave your honest comment about TeaTimer at the TeaTimer page at AMO. If there are some good ratings, I can apply for moving the extension into the public area of AMO.

Thanks for using, testing, having fun (hopefully) and giving some feedback.

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TeaTimer is a Firefox extension, that solves a problem for me, which occurred more than once a day, before I had TeaTimer:

I worked on some stuff and wanted to have some tea. I especially like Earl Grey (thanks to Mr Jean-Luc Picard), a Black tea, which is much too bitter for me, when it steeps longer than 4 minutes. I was often so deep into my work, that I forgot my tea and it's horrible to drink Earl Grey, when it steeped longer than 15 minutes or so (I usually renamed it to “Earl Black” when that happened).

So that's story behind the extension. Let's see, what this cylon offspring can do for you:

Continue reading "May I introduce my TeaTimer to you?"

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