Digital Meanderings
Meanderings of a coder

What a busy few days!  I started development on Ping Fire, my first FF Extension, on Saturday afternoon. It’s late Tuesday night and I think it’s a good time to provide some updates.

PingFire is working.  You can now post using all of the different “Ping My” types (Default, Blog, MicroBlog and Status) as well as any custom triggers you have created.

You can also quote something you’re reading on the web with Ping Fire.  Simply select the text you want to quote and hit the “Ping” button.  Ping Fire will automatically copy the text you’ve selected, append the URL and add it to the message box.  All you have to do is hit the “Ok” button.

I figure this puts PingFire in an un-official Beta status.  The status is still un-official since I haven’t gotten PingFire approved yet.  I submitted the stripped down version on Monday night so I’m hoping that it’ll get approved soon.  I’m also hoping that I don’t have to go through another submission round to get all of the new features I approved.

In the grand scheme of Firefox Extensions, PingFire is relatively simple but I’m still proud of how far I’ve come since Saturday.  When I started this project I knew some Javascript, knew some XML and I had never heard of XUL. Now it’s three days later and I’m still by no means a pro but I think that I’ve come a long way. I hope everyone enjoys the extension as much as I enjoyed developing it.

Often times I will be reading Twitter, Pownce, etc and will want to post something. So I have to navigate to Ping and write my post. This is tiresome for me because that means I have to open another tab when I already some many open. Enter Ping Fire.

Ping Fire will a Firefox extension that allows a user to post a Ping without having to be on their Ping.fm Dashboard.

Initially, the only thing the extension will allow you to do is post to Ping. I will add new features as I find a new or when someone requests a feature that I feel will be useful.

The extension is still in the beginning phase.  I have the extension running in Firefox along with most of the necessary windows and Javascript.  I’m still waiting on my API key from Ping.fm before I can work on the rest of it.

If you’d like to make a feature request add a comment here.