Re: Google Reader Integration with Liferea: Week report

["Arnold Noronha" <arnstein87 gmail com>]

Hello,

Sorry for the delayed report. I have been busy with a lot of issues. I
moved to Mumbai where I spent two days without internet (new house,
waiting for connection). Then I had to spend the last four days in
Chennai for getting a visa for my grad studies.

My last report ended on the note that I was working on this cool thing
about efficient downloading of feeds. Well, I spent about two days
debugging that ... (a gist of what was happening: Every subscription
has some metadata associated with it, which I was using to store some
value. I later found that all the metadata was being erased by Liferea
every time an update took place. By then I was exhausted, and using a
Hash map to store this information looked more like a dirty hack.)

I think making these reports is a pretty good idea, it makes me
recollect what I was last doing, before I started procrastinating.
Still, the next two weeks I'll be in Bangalore (Bengaluru?), and again
in an area without internet. I'll also be busy so the amount of work
that I can put in in the next two weeks would be considerably less,
I'll try to do my best with my high-latency low-speed GPRS connection.

--Arnold

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Arnold Noronha <arnstein87 gmail com> wrote:
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> Now here's the real cool thingy, it's not committed in, because
> there's some work left: Till now all offline readers will update all
> feeds say every one hour. It's real bandwidth intensive. I wiresharked
> Google Reader, and found out a nice API to get a list of all updated
> feeds: which means with one request I can find out exactly which feeds
> need updating! I've got a lot of code done for this, but it turned out
> to be nastier to code than I expected, it'll be done by tomorrow.
> Apart from saving bandwidth, this also means that I can afford to
> check for updates every 10 minutes (say), instead of one hour.
> Efficient feed updating was one of my main design goals when I came up
> with this project idea.