Due to popular demand ("I would give you something, if you'd offer Flattr."), which really just came up after WineHQ started linking to the download page, I've added a Flattr link to the wine-unstable download page. I still wanted to keep it as unobtrusive as possible and just use a text link.

In other news I've uploaded 1.3.19 today, sorry that I didn't manage to do so before the weekend was over, but the upstream release happend after I went on a short trip to Bremen.

And since some people didn't seem to read the notes on the download page, I'll try it through this channel: the package download page is NOT an APT repository. I want people to carefully consider the pros and cons before installing software from a third party. So please don't point your sources.list to the download page. Thanks!

Some might remember, that I have been asked in the past to add Flattr to the available support models. And after considering this a little more, I wanted to add support options to my blog too. So I looked into the different options already available and found, that while Flattr offered a donation option, they had no graphic available like the PayPal donation button. Thus I contacted the Flattr guys and they responded almost immediately by sending me a tarball with two images and an example HTML file. You can see that in action below (this is the ECMAScript version, the CSS version can be seen on the right side of this website):

If you want to use it on your own homepage here is, what you need to do:

1. Download the images (normal, hover) to your server/webspace.
2. Add the following to the page(s) where you want to see the Flattr donation button:
   
   
   You need to replace [USERID] with your registered user name.
3. You're done!

You can, of course, also just download the first image and skipt the whole hover effect stuff. And, of course again, you can also use CSS to implement the hover effect, as I do it on this site. In that case just remove the img tag from the code snippet above, add a unique id (let us assume it is flattrDonate) to the a tag and add the following to your style sheet:

#flattrDonate {
        display:        block;
        background-image: url('/imgs/flattr_donate_normal.png');
        width:          56px;
        height:         21px;
}

#flattrDonate:hover {
        background-image: url('/imgs/flattr_donate_hover.png');
}

Obviously you need to change the URL to point to your copies of the two images.

I've uploaded liblwp-authen-oauth-perl to Debian today, [UPDATE: currently the package is waiting in NEW (please note, that the previous link might not work, in case the package has entered the archive already or the page hasn't been generated yet). and is now in the archive. Thanks a lot to the FTP Masters for the quick processing!]

LWP::Authen::OAuth allows to easily integrate OAuth authentication into Perl programs and libraries. Some of you might already guess, why I have an interest in OAuth for Perl: as a user (and maintainer) of Chronicle I'd find it neat, if there could be some Flattr integration (especially a automatic submission of new posts to Flattr). This sent me searching for an Perl implementation of the Flattr API. Unfortunately this turned up nothing, therefore I'm now planning to write some sort of Net::Flattr Perl module, which I can then use in Chronicle for one task or another.

Net::Flattr (preliminary name, but probably the final one, as the implementation of the Twitter API is called Net::Twitter) is going to be a library, which should offer the same functionality as Flattr's PHP library. For now there are some scetches to this extent on my hard drive, but nothing showable. I hope I find the time soon to write this but it shouldn't be too difficult. ;-)

Apart from my particular use case, you can use LWP::Authen::OAuth for any other OAuth-requiring API. I hope the package helps you to build more cool tools for and on your Debian system!

As I'm asking for donations to help cover the traffic costs for the wine-unstable packages I provide and to support my Debian work in general if appreciated, I thought a "Thank you!" to all those who've donated something so far would be in order (don't worry, I won't disclose any names of donators or other personal information).

Thus here we go: Thank you! It's much appreciated.

For all those who just read this and think they'd like to donate something too, if just they could locate the links to do so, here they come:

• PayPal (general donation link, the wine-unstable specific link can be found on the package page
• Flattr:
  • general Debian work
  • wine-unstable packaging (traffic)
  • donate through Flattr (you need to be logged in, otherwise the previous link will redirect you to the main page)