JaikuBerry 0.8 is out. Changes are:
- Added more keyboard shortcuts, and documented them on the “About” screen, so people have a chance of knowing what they are. Less scroll-wheeling needed.
- Some internal code refactoring, getting ready for the time when jaiku enables posting comments via the API
- Incorporated the new “entry_title” property in the JSON feeds, so that comments no longer redundantly say who the comment was from. Now it says (Re: blah…) rather than (Comment from RichardTodd on blah..) after the comment
- Worked around a bug in the jaiku feeds, where I have to manually build the url for comments, on items that are pulled in from feeds. This is because the “URL” listed for these items is the url of the external item, rather than the jaiku post about the item.
- Still tastes great, and is less filling.
I have gotten a lot more users lately, and the comments have been generally positive. I’ve learned more than I ever wanted to know about various mobile phone providers, trying to help you all successfully configure your phones for jaikuBerry. In all but one case, we were able to work together to make it work on your phones. I only know of one instance where the user would rather just give up than try to troubleshoot the problem. So, good!
I think I’ve said this on each of the last few releases, but I really think this is all I can do until more API features from jaiku are released. People have asked for the avatar pics, but I’m not interested in that feature. It takes up screen space, and takes time to download. I like a light-weight interface for mobile connections. Maybe 3G (or 4G) (or phones with wi-fi) will change my mind, but I don’t have any of those right now. One person would like it to pull location data from GPS, and I think that’d be awesome, but I don’t have a GPS-enabled phone to develop it with. If anyone wants to work on that feature, I’d love to help get it into jaikuBerry.
May 24th, 2007 at 11:35 am
First of all, thank you so much for JaikuBerry.
Second, you’ve probably answered this already somewhere else, but I thought I’d ask anyway.
When you release a new version of JaikuBerry, do I have to delete the previous version entirely and then install the new one, or can I just install 0.8 on top of 0.72?
Sorry for the newb question. Keep up the good work.
May 24th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Both via desktop mgr, and over-the-air, it should be giving you an ‘upgrade’ option. It’s best to upgrade, actually, because then your settings are kept intact.
On my 8700, I’ve found it works smoothest if jaikuberry isn’t running when you do the upgrade, though it seems to work either way. The phone just feels like it takes longer to fully “recover” from the install process if it’s running during the upgrade, so I’m leery of it.