I'm currently exploring different integrations that can be done between Google App Script and Git. This is part of a bigger attempt to integrate Git data into my project management system. I'll post more on that later. GitHub supports a number of very nice sub-systems. One of them is the GitHub Issues ticket tracking system. It's fairly robust and comes with GitHub - which means it's highly integrated out-of-the-box. Integration with Google's App Script is done via the fetchURL command and JSON object manipulation. After a good bit of experimentation, I've settled on querying GitHub Issues with an "on open spreadsheet event" to avoid issues with Google's quota system. Essentially, Google prevents you from calling the fetchURL command more than X times (see the quota limits ) per day. That's not great if you have people actively working and changing data in a spreadsheet. Some of my other App Script routines are running thousands of times per d
Nokia has announced that the new Qt library (4.5) will be available under the LGPL license (March 2009). Hopefully, this will mean that Embarcadero will revive Linux support with it's upcoming 64-bit, compile-to-many-targets compiler rewrite. Actually, it could mean that we would finally have a true CLX revision that would let us have native write-once, compile-to-many-targets, cross platform support for Windows, Mac, Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows CE, and the S60 (eventually). If Delphi's component architecture could be revamped to produce true Qt widgets, Embarcadero would suddenly enable all of the Delphi component vendors to gain access to a client-base that is much larger than what Delphi currently offers. Qt does not have much selection from third-party component vendors. A DevExpress or TMS Software offering would provide a nice upgrade to the basic Qt widgets. Delphi Prism theoretically supports multi-platform through the use of Mono but you have to add the managed cod