25th
Progress Update
We’ve been actively working on some interesting stuff recently and I would like share a few bits of information about what’s going on behind the scenes.
Identi.ca
We’re pleased to be able to offer support for Identi.ca starting from the next update. You can go and checkout the screencast if you have some spare time.
Sidenote: I’ve just recently switched to using Screenflick for screencasting and I’ve been pretty happy with the results.
Tumblr
We’ve been working on support for Tumblr and it’s been going pretty good. Expect more news and previews in the upcoming weeks.
Realtime Social Search
We’ve also been talking to a provider of realtime search across different social networks, so if it all works out you’re going to be able to watch the social space in realtime for specific keywords.
Performance
As previously discussed, we’ve been working on a complete overhaul of the visual subsystem. I’m happy to announce that we’ve converted all the necessary bits and it’s working beautifully. I’ve never seen EventBox be so snappy and use almost no memory.
Syncing
Work has also been done on providing integrated syncing for EventBox. We don’t have anything to demo yet but we will get there.
Road Ahead
We’ve got tons of stuff planned for the upcoming months, it’s going to be an exciting summer. In terms of short term release times, we’re planning on:
- Releasing the performance fix and Identi.ca as pre-release in the next few days. After some brave souls have given it a test, we will push it to Bleeding Edge for a wider audience.
- After that’s done, we’re left with one performance problem which we would like to eliminate (it’s causing beach balling if you have a large number of events).
- Then we’re back on track to start releasing some cool new features that you’ve been waiting for.
I hope that gives you an insight of what to expect in the near future.
