• Ways to improve this

    By John D Head 1 decade ago

    great plug-in, but there would be a few ways to really improve this:


    1. Add in support for a site like Ping.fm - which allows you to update about 50 different sites, including twitter, facebook, linkedin, etc. Ping.fm has a great API.


    2. Add support for multiple Connections sites. I use more than one (internal, bleed yellow, greenhouse, ibm.com) and would love to have this update all of them.
    • By Jessica W Ramirez 1 decade ago

      Thanks, those are great ideas. We need to definitely do the second one.

      • Both of these are on our ToDo list

        By Brian B O'Donovan 1 decade ago

        Both of these suggestions are already on our ToDo list.



        In relation to the Ping.FM interface, this is actually one of the first services I planned to implement. I have about 90% of the code working since last June (see http://www.brianodonovan.ie/2009/12/great-story-about-how-social-software.html for the full history of the plugin) but I never got a chance to debug a strange error I was getting with the login process. Of course if you can't log in it is useless so this is why didn't post it to OpenNTF. Hopefully I will get a chance to complete it sometime soon and hen I will publish it.



        Actually our plan is to write a DeveloperWorks article "How to add support for a new service to the StatusUpdater Plugin". Once this is written, we hope that the community will be able to add support for their own favourite services themselves. Adding support for new services is surprisingly easy - my first involvement with the project involved adding support for three new IBM internal services in a single day.



        Adding support for multiple instances of the Lotus Connections service is actually slightly trickier because the core plugin has a hard coded assumption that there is one configuration set of settings per service type. However, we definitely have that marked high on the priority list to get done soon