Tech projects I’m diggin’ at the moment

So I was thinking about all the different stuff that I’m working on for the new website and the other projects on my mind at the moment, and thought I might just sum it up. If nothing else, so I don’t forget it all during Christmas

Gallery 2 RSS module

Gallery 2 is in Alpha 4 now (though it feels very stable), and very, very modular. I’m learning the G2 API and have taken over development of a RSS module for it. Hope it’ll be in the Beta release, but one never knows. The API is clean enough and seems very well thought out (I’m especially fond of the embedding options, which are undergoing major changes even now), but it’s also extremely large, and I haven’t fully understood it yet. The basic stuff for the RSS module is already in place, though, and was done a few months back by another guy, so it’s really just a matter of updating the module to the current API (and keeping it up-to-date for the G2 release).

WordPress

A PHP application I just recently came across is WordPress, which is basically just a cooler (and much more feature-rich) edition of my own news-script. So for the new site, I’ll probably ditch it, and use WP instead. No need to be manic about creating my own site entirely from scratch, and since it’s Open Source, I can dig into the source and development – just the way I like it!

Gaim

The Gaim instant messenger is another project I follow. It’s a cross-platform instant messenger, which supports the majority of the IM networks out there. It still lacks webcam and VoIP support, but the developers are extremely talented, and I (also) follow their CVS commits on a daily basis and compile the current CVS snapshot under Cygwin myself. I know it’s nerdy, but so am I!

Amavisd-new and Spamassassin

I’ve been tweaking my mailserver during the past week, so that Spamassassin now properly tags all incoming mail with the spam score in the headers, and changes the subject line for spam mail. This allows my mail-client to filter it, without me having to dig through the quarantine archive (which doesn’t exist, since nothing is quarantined) when mails have been falsely marked as spam. Which hasn’t happened yet. It’s also better for the other Netherclift.net-users.

SA checks three RBL lists and has Bayes auto-learning turned on, so it catches practically everything. I have no good procedure yet for supervised learning, but I run sa-learn from time to time by hand, so it’ll probably work out fine in the end. I still have no stats for the fail-ratio, but I do have some basic mail stats from mailgraph, which are interesting enough.

There were a few more items I wanted to mention, but I forget. Oh well.