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I thought I would just update you on where I am at.

It's great news! I now have a client that works (most kinks/bugs out).

Folders that are synced are "Contacts, Magic Briefcase, Mobile Photos, Web Archive (soon to be removed from sync), Deleted Files (soon to be removed from sync too)"

Also and "Shared folders" on the account are also downloaded with the option to upload if you have privileges to do so ( it's the feature requested here: Re: Limitations of "Shared Folder" function   - http://support.sugarsync.com/ics/forum/Client/Common/ContentView.aspx?contentID=90386&PageNo=2)

I have a few small things to do still:

-- Improve the upload check: currently it's a bit lazy (finds newly downloaded files as modified and then uploads them)

-- Build a facility to delete files on the server!!!

-- Migrate the MySQL database to sqlite for portability

-- Change the setup file to be config based rather then code

-- Build a better logging facility to help diagnose problems

-- Build a script to remove all data & empty data for testing purposes

SugarSync have been great the past few weeks helping me with the hiccups I have been having but i'm hoping to have a release by the weekend (or midweek next week)

This release is ALPHA and shouldn't be used in production, There is no delete feature yet - So your online data should be safe still

Through the api I can only do (for the moment) whole file download/upload so if you have large files it may take some time to update them.

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Hi all,

Just thought I would update you on were I am with my linux client for sugarsync. I have fixed a few more bugs (mainly the big bug, if you update a file whilst it's downloading a new version it won't replace the old fine, but create a new one)

I am talking to sugarsync about a few little tweaks I would like to make, and also building a test suite to check and reduce overall disk IO and CPU load.

Thanks

Mark

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Hi all,

Good News - my SugarSync client is now in alpha - with the ability to download and upload files and folders based on last modified times.

I will provide some initial source code once I have tidied it up a bit and done some more extensive testing.

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Hi guys,

After much though i've decided to add this little feature to my site. If you fancy dominos click here and order online.

Thanks

Mark

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Hi all,

If you haven't noticed already - My site layout has changed. There are still some things to finish - but will get around to them over the weekend. I have been absent for so long, due to be incredibly busy with my family and work, But I am here and will be posting a bit more soon.

If you have any thoughts please feel free to comment.

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Good Evening,

I know it's been a while. Got alot on at the moment (moving,work,family,etc)

I am currently re-desiging the crawler catcher which includes an apache module for detecting ip's

But i'm only a novice/intermediate level C coder, what I really need is someone to give me a hand with hash tables and apache api.

Please send me an email if you can help. shouldn't take too long.

Mark

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Well i've finally got my invite through for google wave and my first impressions are great. Although when my account was activated I had no extensions and when I tried to load the extensions gallery I had "Dr. Wave" telling me to refresh my page, But this is very beta software so it is understandable that things could be broken.

Alot of the development work I do is all remote - so having software that improves communication is always welcome for a trial, and google wave ticks alot of my boxes. Having the ability to collaborate on a joint "wave" between multiple contacts makes writing specifications and requirement documents much easier as you can create a "blip" on any part of a current "wave" message and add amendments.

Once you are happy with the final copy - you just select it and click "make into new wave" and you have a clean version of the final document with no comments on it (whilst keeping the commented one too)

There is a very handy firefox extension which enables you to have the "wave" page closed and still be notified when you have a new wave.

Google Wave is missing email notification upon receiving a new wave - i'm not sure if this will be introduced (as it could become quite spammy) but the notification plugin is brilliant.

Once my extensions were turned on again - I was able to give them a good test. The initial google extensions look very good and show just what google wave is capable off, with collaborative google maps: giving the ability for all participants in a "wave" to add markers to a map & add items to an itenary all in real time.

Google Wave is a fantastic insight into where the web is going.

Lots of good things to come

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JS Bin is designed to help JavaScript and CSS coders test snippets of code, to some extent and debug the code together.
They allow you to enter and edit your javascript and include select js files (jquery, mootools, etc) and then save your work and receive a url that you can then send to your co-workers/friends for them to test and edit appropriatly.

It's a very simple yet effective tool which will provide helpful for other developers

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I know I haven't posted much recently. I've just had key hole surgery on my wrist, and typing is something that hurts at the moment.

But I will be back with some whopper posts in the near future.

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Although being in a very alpha stage James Urquhart has managed to render HTML inside a canvas tag. Currently the only tags supported are HTML, BODY, P, B, and SPAN.

View his demo for an example of whats to come.
Hopefully we will start to see canvas tags being rendered inside canvas tags.

The crazy world of HTML5 and canvas tags

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