Ramblings of a coder

This code will no longer work! It uses the old v1 API, which has been turned off. See here for working code with the latest v2 API. As well as being useful as general cloud storage, dropbox also has an API that lets you access its contents programmatically. It's a straightforward REST API with a number of language specific libraries to make the going a bit easier. Java is included on the list of SDKs, but at present only Android is included on the list of tutorials. This can be somewhat frustrating because simple examples using Java are lacking. Fortunately, the process was described by Josh here . So I've taken it and implemented it in Java, and it seems to work. It's a very basic example that authenticates with dropbox then uploads a file called "testing.txt" containing "hello world." Of course, more functionality is available than this, but this is the hard part (at least I found working this bit out the hard part.) Once you've got your Dro...

When I first started Quelea, I wanted to use it as a kind of testing ground for features and ideas that hadn't already been incorporated into church presentation software. Both in terms of the UI, features and functionality. A lot of these features have worked really well - the ability to import from survivor songbooks for instance, and the instant search that's further improved in the next release. On the UI side of things I tried to have a go with the ribbon - it's still got a love/hate relationship with people, but I wondered if it could do any good in Quelea. So I had a go, implemented it and left it as such for a few releases. Thing is, it just didn't work - and I think this was a 50:50 split between it not being suitable for Quelea and the flamingo implementation. On the suitable for Quelea side: For something that's often run on laptops with small screens, it took up a huge amount of space it didn't need to. There weren't enough controls to make it vi...