http://blog.mikeasoft.com Sun, 25 May 2008 16:05:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just finished adding a new feature for the 0.10 release of Jokosher (scheduled for August). Jokosher can now recover a user's project after a crash: It still needs some testing, but it seems to work acceptably well at the moment and doesn't appear to cause any problems with editing while ... http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2008/05/25/jokosher-crash-recovery/ Who hasn’t dreamt of living aboard a Zeppelin and leisurely cruising around the world? Lacking the millions of pounds necessary to actually do this I decided to have a go at producing a little web comic along similar lines. I don’t know how long I’ll continue it for as it ... http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2007/10/26/floating-free-web-comic/ Just in time for the new season of LUGRadio starting on Monday, I've created a new PHPBB3 compatible theme for the LUGRadio forums. The hard working trig should have it up on the official forums soon, until then you can have a peek at it on my development installation, although ... http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2007/09/18/new-lugradio-forums-theme/ Following on from yesterday's post I now have have OpenMoko running on my Treo. When I next have some time to spare I'll have a go at hacking support for the Treo's GSM chip into OpenMoko's gsmd, then it'll be possible to make phone calls through OpenMoko's phone application ... http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2007/07/01/openmoko-on-a-treo-650/ With much help from the chaps in #hackndev I managed to get Linux installed on my Treo 650: You can see a video of it booting and running a few applications here: http://elleo.blip.tv/file/get/Elleo-LinuxOnATreo650996.ogg (Ogg Theora) For anyone else wanting to do this, the steps are as follows: Download ... http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2007/06/30/im-in-ur-treo-linuxin-ur-phonez/ Now that I've got most of the libempathy and libempathy-gtk functions I need working as python bindings I've finally been able to get on with some fun hacking on Jokosher itself. A user's contacts (managed by Telepathy's Mission Control) are now offered as possible instruments which can be added to ... http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2007/06/18/jokosher-network-instruments-contacts-integrated/ ... Jono Bacon kills a kitten. Which is to say, Jokosher 0.9 has now been released and we'd really love anyone with some spare time to have a go at testing it and report any bugs. We'd like 1.0 to be a really polished release which works correctly for just about ... http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2007/05/24/every-time-a-bug-goes-unreported-in-jokosher/ I've begun work on my Summer of Code project for Jokosher. My task is to integrate VoIP facilities, making it possible for people to treat their contacts as if they were just another instrument. Hopefully making life simpler for podcasters interviewing guests, or for podcasts who's presenters are all ... http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2007/05/07/jokosher-soc/ The schedule for LUGRadio Live '07 has now been announced and it looks like I'll be giving my talk at 2:00pm on Saturday, just after lunch. I'll be discussing a little project I've been working on for a while called SabreGL; this is an attempt to bring the easy ... http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2007/05/05/speaking-at-lugradio-live-07/ The Korenwolf (Corn Wolf) is a breed of wild hamster native to Belgium and some parts of Germany. http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2007/01/02/korenwolf/