It's been quiet since 0.6 was out of door 3 weeks ago, but I've been actually working on some fixes and improvements to Remedie Server most of the time, and made 12 minor updates. Here's the highlight, but you can also go look at the detailed Changes file on git.
iPhone coverflow UI
0.6.4 and later fixes implemented coverflow UI for iPhone. When you access Remedie Server via Mobile Safari on your iPhone, Remedie displays the special iPhone UI with Remote. And if you flip the phone horizontally, the coverflow UI will start. This is just an eye-candy to look through (or possibly show off) your Remedie library but could be a good starting point to use HTML5 and WebKit's awesome CSS animation for possibly more awesome UI. zflow javascript and CSS library is being used to implement the coverflow UI.
Performance Improvements
0.6.0 already implemented event-based programming along with multi-tasking with Coro framework, but in 0.6.5 I optimized more of the HTML and RSS feed parsing code to eliminate slow and memory inefficient HTML::TreeBuilder in favor of LibXML parsers. Also I profiled and removed most of memory leaks happening in the backend code, so it runs much faster and memory efficient.
Periodic Updater
Prior to 0.6.8 you need to manually click 'Refresh' button or type 'shift+r' keyboard shortcut to refresh the channels. Now the server side process periodically kicks the updater every 60 minute, and the nicest thing is, if you keep the Remedie UI open in your browser, it automatically sends the update-start event over Comet channel and auto refresh them with Growl-ish notifications (If your're running Remedie UI on Fluid on OS X it will directly talk to Growl natively). This is very nice to always keep you updated while you're away from your home Mac mini computer.
I have more plans to implement web hooks, superfeedr integration and PubSubHubbub hook etc. to make your feed updates more real-time.
Improved Continuous Playback
typester suggested the current continuous playback behavior, which only works against unwatched (NEW) items, is confusing. I agreed to that and made a big change so a) if you open a channel with unwatched items, you'll only see those unwatched items. But you can click "M items, N unwatched" to show all items. b) Continuous playback will play whatever items you're seeing in the channel view, regardless of whether it's unwatched or not.
This will make it easy to subscribe to your favorite list, like delicious.com/{yourname} or friendfeed.com/{yourname} and continuously playback everything multiple times.
In 0.6.13 I also added a support of pausing and resuming playback with 'o/RET' key. With tools like Remote Buddy or Sofa Control, or with Remedie's iPhone Remote, you can click the Remote's PLAY/PAUSE button to actually pause the playback. This currently works with QuickTime, Flash, Silverlight, YouTube and Nico Nico Douga embedded players.
