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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

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

Announcing Pomotux, a free Task Manager implementing the Pomodoro Technique

Pomotux is  a C++ activity manager for the Pomodoro Technique created by Francesco Cirillo, a member of the XPlabs crew. The program focuses on the basic features of the technique. It does not focus on advanced techniques, such as the prediction of the number of pomodoros needed for an activity. About the Pomodoro Technique The

Announcing BD-review, a free platform for music reviews written using JavaEE

BD-review is a dynamic website to allow people to review releases (albums, demos, EPs, singles) of (young, unsigned) music bands. The project is the outcome of the Internet Technologies course at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bolzano. The requirements of the project were to build a website using a small