Michael Sheldon's Stuff

Thanks to Jono I now have a flashy Delta 44 sound card, which can handle multiple simultanious inputs. This particular card has the distinct priviledge of having recorded 43 episodes of the ever popular LUGRadio and will now live out its retirement providing me with a suitable card to write the simultanious input code for Jokosher on (and perhaps recording odd stuff of my own).

My latest distraction is working on Jokosher (formerly JonoEdit). It’s a multi-track non-linear audio editor with a prime focus on usability. So far I’ve managed to get single-track recording working, and almost have mixed multi-track playback working. Jono‘s been hacking away on the interface while Micro and Jason have started working together on producing a Cairo based widget for displaying a graphical representation of the audio. Pretty much any assistance would be appreciated so anyone wanting to help would do well to check out the Getting Involved page.

With a little luck I’ll have a multi-input sound card pretty soon, which’ll enable me to start work on the simultanious multi-input recording features.

Finally, a screenshot:

After vague prodding from Jono and Trig I’ve hacked together a little phpBB theme to make the LUGRadio forums more consistent with the rest of the site. The latest version can be seen at http://mikeasoft.com/phpbb, which’ll hopefully get applied to the official forums in the near future (pending any requested improvements).

From the classified adverts section of the February 16th edition of Micro Mart (issue 889):

I’ve made a quick flash video showing off the STX LiveCD Installer in action :). It can be viewed at: http://junk.mikeasoft.com/stxinstall.htm

I’ve just completed a successful install with the new STX LiveCD Installer :). There are still a few things to tidy up and odd bits to add on, but it essentially works now. I’ll be pretty busy for the next week (finishing group work, visiting parents and preparing for an interview) so I’ll try and get a testable version all ready in a couple of weeks, hopefully in time for stibs’ next beta LiveCD.

I’ve updated my little PHP Bazaar frontend so that it now displays the last change made to a project (as well as who made that change and the date it was made).

I’ve got threading working roughly correctly in the STX Installer now; threading support in PyFLTK still seems a little patchy at the moment but it looks as though it’ll suit our purposes. Just a few bugs left to fix and a couple of small features to finish off and it’ll be ready for a public test release.

I’ve updated my little timetable generating script so it now contains the current semester 2 information for students in years 1 through 4. It can be accessed from http://www.mikeasoft.com/timetable

I’ll be busy most of this week working on our group java project for Uni, so work on the Installer will be delayed somewhat. I did however find time to hack together a new template for the ever amusing Planet #Lugradio to make it match the design of Lugradio.org a bit better (at the suggestion of Darran).

Wrote a quick program to test the Ubuntu lib3ds package, so hopefully those nice MOTU guys can get a working package sorted out for future releases. This is in relation to a bug in lib3ds when compiled with G++ 4.0’s optimisations: Bug #3711.

I’ve also been getting odd bits and pieces done to the STX LiveCD Installer; mostly trying to finish off the partition display section and get things threading nicely. Still needs work before being included in the next LiveCD beta but now that my exams are out of the way I might be able to get it sorted a little quicker. Stibs should be uploading beta 1 of the LiveCD (without installer) in the next day or two.