• Time for a cup if tea #
• poking around in liftweb's log4j setup #

• today's menu: config & exception reporting #

• re #echofon #screw-up – 1.9.6.4 version still working on ubuntu 10.04, http://bit.ly/9j1d4a #

• finally tracked bug down, now how to evict it? tricky… #

just updated firefox on my ubuntu 10.04 laptop, when to my utter surprise, on restarting echofon informed me that

Echofon does not support this platform or custom build Firefox. (Can’t get OAuth signer.) / Cc['@naan.net/twitterfox-sign;1'] is undefined (Fx version 3.6.9 / ABI x86-gcc3)

investigating further, i first came across a blog entry from today on echofon’s blog, stating:

Today, we released Echofon for Firefox version 1.9.6.6 which removes Basic Auth support. This means, Echofon for Firefox no longer supports custom build Firefox (such as 64bit build on Mac/Windows), FreeBSD, Solaris and the other minor platforms. We’re working on the other solution to support these platforms now. Thank you for your patience. (emphasis added)

looking at the echofon plugin review page at mozilla’s plugin web page, it emerges that echofon managed to turpedo their own plugin on redhat linux as well as on ubuntu linux (and not just the 64bit version, but the 32bit version) — which i guess translate to the other minor platforms. ouch.

update: just found out that the 1.9.6.4 version still works, so this might work as a temporary duct tape until echonfon gets their act together.

• wrapping components in actor shells #
• refactored code running again, time consuming components converted to async actors, time to call it a week #

• fixed "authentication error" with pidgin microblog plugin by updating to latest microblog plugin version #
• http://icio.us/kcqh2a #
• time to go to bed. #

• continuing with the CRE WAR #
• updated xyzzyxyzzy.net to #wordpress 3.0.1 #
• trying to figure out data loading paths #

for over a year we’ve been meeting more or less once a month or two over lunch to discuss and chat about all things OpenSim — very creatively volker gässler and i called them OpenSim Zurich Lunches back then when. for the past year we’ve been having lunch at the cafeteria of the IBM Research — Zurich lab, this month’s OpenSim Zurich Lunch will be the first time we meet closer to the downtown zurich area:

• monday, january 25th, 12:30h — 14:00h (approx)
• king’s kurry, freyastrasse 3, zürich (close to the train station wiedikon)

so, if you are around, have time to spare, and are interested to meet up with fellow OpenSim-ers, let volker know by dropping him an email — fe11 at gmx.ch — so that we can reserve enough seats at king’s kurry.

the latest rezzme now contains the necessary code to build debian/ubuntu dpkgs — making it as easy to install rezzme packages on the latest debian/ubuntu systems as it already is for windows and mac OSX machines as the dpkg format allows me to explicitly specify the prerequisites (such as PyQt4).

while working on the dpkg support i also found out that debian/ubuntu has the very useful /etc/firefox-3.0, /etc/firefox-3.5, and /etc/thunderbird directories that allow me to provide package specific javascript to, for example, add a protocol handler for the rezzme: URI scheme. that along with gnome’s gconf tool gives us the same seamless rezzme user experience as on windows or mac OSX — unfortunately, it seems that nothing comparable exists for redhat/fedora based systems.¹

also the windows build code has been cleaned up and the no longer required dependency on setuptools removed.