One Week Munich

Tomorrow I’m going to spend a week (until Saturday) in Munich / München, Germany. No, it’s not a real holiday, but rather a school trip with two classes. Luckily, most of the bigger cities (and the hotels itself) offer free WLAN-hot spots, so I’m taking my netbook with me in the hope to stay connected.

The addon I presented in the last post, OhNoesQueues, became a weekly pick of WoWInterface.com alongside three other addons (that’s a lot for one week, isn’t it?). Such a pick of the week is an important factor of such small addons, because they’re not often updated and tend to disappear quickly in the overwhelming mass of new addons.

In the last time, I’m not very deep into WoW AddOn development. Yeah, I still have to rewrite cargBags for the new stack-compression and item-database in the planned version 2.0, but I couldn’t get a start on it. At the moment I’m devoting myself to PHP: Longer readers maybe remember my C++ project WiredSocial. I’m currently rewriting it in PHP to make a web interface for it. The ultimate plan is to make a central account for me on all social communities, including a “single search in all communities”. Of course, I’ve started with the StudiVZ and derivates, because they’re the only well-known “closed ones”. There’s a good progress – I can already login into these, read all data from a member profile, get the friends of someone (and their profiles & friends) and can fetch members by doing a search for their names.
The API got so complex that with only 20 additional lines of code I could create a diagram which displays the friends that three (or more) persons have in common. It gets really interesting when I introduce meta-accounts, e.g. so you can link a SchülerVZ-account to LastFM and Facebook.