Richard Hult

Gossip
Finally got a Gossip release out (actually two). It's been a while since the last one and it took a while to iron out the little details but now I'm pretty happy with the result. Hopefully the rest of our users will agree :)

Mono
It's good to hear that the mono crowd is planning to split mono in an ECMA part and non-ECMA part. I've heard the argument that parts of mono may be covered by patents etc quite a bit, but I don't worry much if it just means that those parts can't be shipped (like asp.net and the windows forms stuff). I think Mono with GTK# will provide a kickass development platform when it has stabilized a bit. I still need to come up with a small fun project to hack on though.

Posted by Richard Hult at 05:07 PM | Permalink

Mono
I haven't done that much hacking lately, other than playing around with C# and mono a bit. (Yes, I got inspired by that other Swede, the crazy one!)

I'm very impressed with C# and mono as a development platform. C# makes it really easy to reuse old chunks of code, without the need to generate or write a lot of wrapping code, which makes it really convenient to slowly transform an application from C to C#.

D-BUS
The dbus discussions are progressing, with some good feedback. Nice to see that more people are getting interested and want to use it, even though it isn't really ready for widespread use just yet. I think it's good to get some early use to be able to find rough spots or missing pieces that application developers are going to need.

Ringaling!
The latest silly dbus thingy is a small hack that makes jamboree fade out when the phone rings. ;) It's actually very useful, since I don't always hear the phone when I'm listening to music.

Posted by Richard Hult at 04:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Since Anders did some fun D-BUS stuff, I did a quick hack for DrWright to make it register a D-BUS service and emit signals when it goes in break mode and when the break is over. Jamboree can then lower its volume if you use Anders' hack.

Pretty fun for a ten minute hack :) D-BUS is cool!

(The code is commited to Jamboree and DrWright if you wanna try it out)

Posted by Richard Hult at 11:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)