Simpy Chichimichi

Do you use Firefox? If you do, read the following.

If you haven't used Andu's Firefox extension for Simpy before, I'd describe it as a Firefox extension that makes both saving and searching of your Simpy bookmarks directly from Firefox very simple, smooth, and natural. If you are using Andu's Simpy extension, you will not need Simpy bookmarklets. Besides saving and searching, you can also quickly get to your profile page, to Simpy front page, you can see Simpy's link history for the page you are on with a single click. This extension also adds the "right-click" context menu items that let you bookmark to Simpy with ease.

Andu just released a new version of his Firefox extension for Simpy. This new version is waiting to get listed on the Mozilla Add-on site, but while we wait for it to appear there (it looks like it could take a while - weeks), you can install the extension directly from Andu's announcement post. Just save that simpy.xpi file on your computer and then open it with your Firefox browser by going to File -> Open file menu. This version works with both Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2.*.

The new version has some nice changes - it installs both the link and note search plugins for Firefox (see also: Firefox 2.0 Open Search Discovering Simpy), has prettier icons, the installation process automatically puts some of the icons in your existing Firefox toolbar -- this is important -- this extension doesn't add yet another toolbar to your browser and does not consume more of your valuable screen space!

The full Changelog is available from Andu's announcement post. Thank you, Andu!

Are you hungry? Like snakes? How about pies? How about snake pies? I'm asking because Benjamin just made a nice python pie, as you can see over at simpytools.sf.net. He released Simpy.py 1.1 the other day and announced it a few days ago. He also diligently updated its Freshmeat entry. He summarized all of that in his message on simpy-dev list.

Probably the biggest change in version 1.1 is that Simpy.py is now rleased under both the Apache Software License 2.0 and LGPL 2.1.

If you don't know what Simpy.py is, let me explain quickly - Simpy.py is a free client library that makes it possible for your Python application to "talk to" Simpy's REST API. How would you use Simpy.py? Benjamin has a few examples for you.

Thank you, Benjamin, you are a great example of what a good community member can be like.