New release that addresses a few things discovered by Tweetly Updater users:

• Useless (or even misleading) @ character in posts
• Redundant utf-8 encoding of twitter messages

Please see the project page for more information. You can download the release there or at the WordPress plugin directory.

Thanks to everyone for using my plugin and the constructive input!

This release fixes a few bugs with option names and detection of already published posts. The generated bit.ly url is now saved in the custom field “tweetlyUpdater_bitlyUrl”, this field is used by the plugin to differentiate between old and new posts.

Because of various changes in the twitter and bit.ly api Tweetly Updater was completly broken. This should be fixed in the new 1.1.0 release.

For more information visit the project page.

backup-manager is a simple and straightforward backup solution and Amazon S3 gives you reliable remote storage.

Since the backup-manager versions in Debian and Ubuntu are little bit outdated, I would recommend installing the 0.7.5 Release from the Website. While the installation of backup-manager is painless, getting the s3 part running a little bit tricky (and undocumented).
The s3 part of backup-manager is based on the Net::Amazon::S3 perl module and this needs the XML::LibXML::XPathContext module, which is, as far as I can see, not included in one of the libxml-*-perl packages in Debian or Ubuntu.

So, this procedure gives you all the needed dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libperl6-slurp-perl libxml2-dev
sudo cpan XML::LibXML
sudo cpan Net::Amazon::S3

Update: (14.06.07) Ubuntu feisty now contains the 7.5.3 version of backup-manager.

I joined the Debian Perl Group yesterday. This group will constantly improve the debian coverage of available perl modules.