Network Lighthouse

A couple of things have happened recently to change my priorities with SocialMail. Firstly I found out that Twitter are planning to decomision basic user/password authentication and move solely to OAuth. Since I don’t want to cause issue for users down the line I decided that I should switch socialmail to use OAuth as well.

To accomplish this I modified the twitterHelper.jsm library to support OAuth, thanks to the way that it was originally written the changes were pretty straight forward and the biggest challenge was actually understanding how OAuth itself works.

The second event that happened is that I got feedback on my first attempt at gaining approval on AMO. The only issue is how I was storing passwords, I should have used the login manager api. This didn’t present a huge issue particularly since I’d just been working on the OAuth stuff.

With those two changes out of the way, the only other change of note is an announcement panel, shown when SocialMail is loaded that will pull the last tweet from “TB_SocialMail” where I will make announcements about new releases and features in the future.

All that done and I’m quite happy to release socialmail 0.3 to the masses. Have fun with this version SocialMailv0.3, hopefuly it will become the first Mozilla approved version.

-Daniel