Stackoverflow Questions Notifier Applet

A Linux Mint Cinnamon Applet that checks Stackoverflow site and shows a notification when a new question (with one or several tags) is posted

The frequency timeout and the tags of interest can be set up

Installation

• Right click on your panel, click Add applets to the panel
• Click on Get more online tab
• Find Stackoverflow Questions Notifier, right click and Mark for installation
• Once installed Add to panel
• Right click on the applet icon, click Configure, set the tags you're interested in and the frequency time, defaults values are: "c, java, bash, javascript" for tags and 5 minutes for time

Tested

Tested on Cinnamon 2.4.6, Linux Mint 17.1

Change Log

v 1.0.3

• Duplicated questions notification bug solved for good!

v 1.0.2

• Minor improvements over duplicated question notifications bug

v 1.0.1

• Minor bug fixes: The error messages weren't showing

v 1.0.0

• Show popup notifications every n minutes with new questions posted under certain tags
• Let the user disabled/enabled notifications by clicking on the applet icon
• Notifications contain a link for the question
• The applet configuration dialog lets the user set the list of tags (labels separated by ,)
• If the maximum number of request to the API site is reached, the applet will block
  itself until the service throttle time is restore again

About

I'm a fan of Stackoverflow, I like to help people around, to learn new stuff and to win some reputation points at the same time.

I also spend a lot of time in my LinuxMint box, so I wrote this applet to hunt for questions that are of interest without spending time refreshing the browser waiting for some of those questions to appear.