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updated foxylicious extension for Firefox 3

Jesse Kuhnert — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:04:49 +0000

Besides maybe firebug/gmail notifier, I’ve come to rely on having my foxylicious extension installed in firefox for almost as long as I’ve been using the browser. Unlike the other del.icio.us extensions, this one doesn’t install a bunch of graphical “clutter” all over the place to perform the menial task of managing bookmarks. It lets firefox continue to handle bookmark management as per usual – with the added functionality of being able to add any given link/page to your del.icio.us account and have the plugin periodically sync your configured del.icio.us bookmarks folder with the handy http based del.icio.us api.

You can install it now for Firefox 3 only, but please keep in mind that;

I don’t know what I’m doing.
It will probably break or screw something up in your browser.
I will probably not be hosting the extension install permanently from my site.

If that wasn’t enough to dissuade you then you can find the new 0.7.1 version below.

Install 0.7.1

Again, this doesn’t support any firefox version less than 3.0 currently as that would require more work than I felt like investing initially. If it seems worthy of continuing to live after my butchering of Dietrich’s code then I’ll try and make it backwards compatible and submit it to whoever it needs to get submitted to to have it hosted by Mozilla instead.

On a side note, working with the XUL/javascript API has been pretty fun. Seems very similar to what adobe is trying to do with flex, minus the fancy/pretty vector graphics editor side of things. (From what I remember of friends like http://ducktyper.com working with it at least. On a more positive note, it probably doesn’t have all of the blatant IO retardedness that he talks about when working with flex/air either..in fact I think he’s abandoned the platform entirely and is going for a native cocoa app instead.)

Update(8/19/08): There have been many reports of broken functionality and a new update has finally been published to help with some of these problems.

Install 0.7.2

Update (9/21/09): Updated version compatibility with latest FF, fixed add delicious bookmark dialog to correctly display page title / location.

Install 0.7.3

looking for work

Jesse Kuhnert — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:57:45 +0000

My current big contract is finally starting to wind down and I may be looking for something sometime around mid December, so if anyone knows of anything please feel free to contact me. (jkuhnert at feeble-attempt-at blocking spam gmail.com )

Update: Someone pointed out that it may be good to mention that I physically live in washington d.c. and have a linkedin profile as well.

lastfmproxy updates

Jesse Kuhnert — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:12:14 +0000

I was recently pleasantly surprised by the usefulness of the LastFMProxy application and talked about it some here.

Now it’s become my dirty little indulgent programming side project. I haven’t changed very much at all other than the most minor of items wrt io stability as well as a new grey navbar to handle some preset music streams as well as listening to a stream of similar sounding artists without having to remeber the rest urls.

Again not a big deal, just minor tweaks here and there, but at least I don’t have to restart the client every once in a while anymore. That was my biggest gripe and now it’s gone – but playing with python has been so much fun I may just keep tweaking things for a while anyways.

Download: lastfmproxy-1.2.tgz