Version 0.2 of my client for the Backpack Web Services API, Gnapsack, was released today, and now has a new home. The two main enhancements are Windows compatibility and ability to handle multiple lists.

I have just released Gnapsack, a desktop client for Linux that uses the Backpack API. Check out the site for info, screenshots, etc. This is an open source (GPL) project.

While it only runs on Linux currently, I’m hoping to get someone to help me out with a Windows port. It uses the Python bindings to the GTK widget set. A good example of a PyGTK app that has been ported to Windows is the Griffith film collection manager.

I may unwittingly be using some non-standard Python libraries–if any Linux users can give it a try and let me know if I should add items to the dependencies list, I’d appreciate it.

Anyone interesting in contributing to this project in general, please let me know, and I’ll get you oriented.

The links you see in the sidebar of the home page of this Weblog are generated by a Python script which is executed nightly and collects any links I’ve posted to my del.icio.us account that have been tagged with an information technology-related keyword. del.icio.us permits this kind of keyword aggregation via a relatively new feature called "bundles." Unfortunately, there’s currently no way to get del.icio.us to show you all the most recent posts for a particular bundle. So I access the del.icio.us Web API via a delicious.py that I’ve modified to be able to work with these bundles, plus my own script:

(NOTE: MISSING CODE HERE) Inline code samples discontinued until I can fix the CSS for the HTML "pre" tag not to expand the window in I.E.).

As you can see from the comments (if not the code itself), it’s a little ugly right now, but it works. Looking forward to sharpening my Python skills by working with del.icio.us and other Web APIs.