MN8
April 19th, 2002
Hm, it took me 3 weeks to solve a bug, that's definitely a record. Truth is I'm not sure it was a bug or a feature. It is a bug because doesn't worked, it did when I implemented the feature, but then "mn8" changed and nobody tested those two methods. Now works, and it does it nicely that's what counts. It is also covered with tests cases so next time it gets screwed will know. Cool we have now 1114 tests for "mn8", tests containing "mn8" script code running in a "mn8" script base test framework. Cool.
We also have some new scrappers and a primitive "Jabber" client. For now it is only able to send and receive normal messages. Will see latter what more can we do with it.
RSS, RDF, OPML, scriptingNews2.xml concepts implemented. A cool thing all do is allowing you to have a new RSS, RDF ... feed containing only the new items since it was last invoked.
The only remaining things to do till we hand it over to our publisher are: finishing the documents for the language syntax (the API for the concepts is almost done), tackle a bit the basic error handling and do some more examples.
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