Rubytime was first Lunar Logic Polska Ruby on Rails application. When I’ve started working at LLP Rubytime was at version 2.1. Almost every programmer at LLP commited some changes for it during its lifetime and the code which remembered Rails 1.x needed a serious rewrite. I had the chance to rewrite it from scratch using Merb and DataMapper (this was fun). So now we have Rubytime 3 with good quality code and JSON API (read on).

As I’m big fan of KDE 4 (3.x sucked) and whole plasma stuff I wanted to play a little with plasmoids API. So Rubytime plasmoid has been born. The main goal of the plasmoid is to ease reporting time spent on projects right from your KDE desktop without need to open Rubytime in the browser.

The main plasmoid features are:

• Reporting new activities
• Showing list of recently added activities
• Notifying (through KDE’s KNotify system) about missing reports for yesterday and today

Widget is written in Python, using Python KDE bindings (Ruby bindings were broken at that time and I just wanted to learn KDE/Plasma API instead of wasting my time on fighting with C++). It has fully configurable system notification thanks to mighty KNotify4 subsystem:

Communication with Rubytime is done using RT’s JSON API (gee, I need to finally find some time to document the API so other developers can start creating more add-ons for RT).

If you dare to use it please keep in mind that it was tested on KDE 4.2.x and 4.3 beta2. I doubt that it will work on 4.1. You can grab it straight from github repository. Enjoy!

Few days ago my workmates sent me a link to latest microsoft IE8 propaganda article called ‘Windows Internet Explorer 8: Get the facts’. When I opened it I wasn’t surprised, the comparison was full of understatements and lies. Just normal microsoft brainwash, nothing interesting.

I thought: this is so funny, I’ll bookmark it as some ‘funny’ stuff. So I opened delicious.com bookmark dialog and saw ‘Recommended’ and ‘Popular’ tags lists. Look at this:

Funny, marketing, bullshit, humor. I had exactly this in mind when I was opening bookmark dialog. Smile appeared on my face. If those tags are recommended by delicious it means that good percentage of people take it as bullshit. That’s nice. I’ve opened delicious page for this brainwash to check how many people bookmarked it:

142 bookmarks in 4 days. And looking at all tags assigned for this article we can see obvious tags like ie8, comparison, firefox, internet, explorer, web, microsoft. But almost all of bookmarks have tags like fraud, humor, funny, propaganda, marketing, FUD, ridiculous, lies.

Awareness grows.