Google Gears for Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

Built my own - seems to work fine so far.

jabley@miq-jabley:~/work/gears-read-only$ svn info
Path: .
URL: http://gears.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
Repository Root: http://gears.googlecode.com/svn
Repository UUID: fe895e04-df30-0410-9975-d76d301b4276
Revision: 3410
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: gears.daemon
Last Changed Rev: 3410
Last Changed Date: 2009-11-10 01:49:08 +0000 (Tue, 10 Nov 2009)

Made some changes:



make mode=OPT

and then install the resulting xpi.

Facebook Mega-Data

Just noticed that Facebook open-sourced a version of their BigTable data store and it's hosted on Google code, written in Java. I'll omit the obvious snickers about Facebook cloning BigTable and then hosting on Google Code.

All consuming

That's a major one of my frustrations with my current feed reader of choice dealt with then. Now, about those duplicate entries...

Google Reader Bug report - use Atom <id/> elements

I am directly subscribed to Sam Ruby's feed. I recently added Planet Intertwingly as well, which contains Sam's blog. Both feeds are served as application/atom+xml. In Google Reader, duplicate items show up (for Sam, Steve Loughran, and others that overlap from my other subscriptions. I don't want to remove individual subscriptions in case Sam removes them from Planet Intertwingly.

From my readings of the spec a while ago, that was an explicit rationale for having id's associated with each entry. As you would expect, the id's are the same. From Planet Intertwingly:

  <entry>
    <id>tag:intertwingly.net,2004:2619</id>
    <link href="http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/07/31/Agile-Financial-Publishing" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
    <link href="http://intertwingly.net/blog/2619.atom" rel="replies" type="text/html"/>
    <title>Agile Financial Publishing</title>
    ...
  </entry>

From Intertwingly:

  <entry>
    <id>tag:intertwingly.net,2004:2619</id>
    <link href="2007/07/31/Agile-Financial-Publishing"/>
    <link rel="replies" href="2619.atom" thr:count="1" thr:updated="2007-07-31T12:15:28-04:00"/>
    <title>Agile Financial Publishing</title>
    ...
  </entry>

Those atom:id element IRIs appear to be the same to me...