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Announcing Pomodroid 0.3.0

Being encouraged by the 130 downloads nine days after its official release, I’m going to work further on Pomodroid. This release has a new feature: it permits XML-RPC calls on Trac as anonymous user. This is useful if you have XmlRpcPlugin installed on your trac but don’t have the permissions to use XML-RPC for your

Announcing Pomodroid 0.2.1

A tiny update for the (still) alpha project Pomodroid. I added some new Power Management features: When running a Pomodoro, the Android phone is prevented from going stand-by. That is, it will never block the screen and go to sleep. The block is released when Pomodoro Activity looses focus. When running a Pomodoro, screen brightness

Improve Pomodroid!

I am looking for help in improving Pomodroid, the Android Agile Activity manager for the Pomodoro Technique. It has just been released. The idea behind it is great but there are infinite possible improvements! As example, the possibility to add more sources besides Trac. The user interface can further be improved by a designer. Documentation

Announcing Pomodroid release for the general public

I’m very pleased to announce that Pomodroid, a project on which I worked for three months with a University mate, has now been released for the general public. Pomodroid is a Java/Android application that interacts with a Trac system, retrieves developer’s tasks and lets him work following the basic rules of the Pomodoro technique. Pomodroid

Grub2 package for Slackware 13.0 (and older versions)

For those that chose ext4 as default file-system type for their boot partition, and are having problems booting their Slackware 13.0 distribution, I built a .tgz package containing the latest Grub 2 release (currently 1.97-beta4). It also contains a default grub.cfg file. Please download the file here: grub-1.97~beta4-i486-1.tgz for Slackware 13.0 It should also work

On the automation of API writing and XML-RPC serving for Python Django

While searching for solutions on adopting Django for the server side of our Dynamic Car Pooling system, I found two very interesting projects: WAPI – a framework which abstracts the details involved in publishing an API and translates class methods to API methods, serializing the objects returned when possible. WAPI handles authentication, too, and other