Amber progress Sep 18 2005
So these last few days, the progress and discussion on Amber has increased significantly. In the last few weeks, we have had three more team members come on board, and this has started to produce far more discussion and thoughts than before. I feel that the design is getting some real work done, and soon I hope to get back to the code, starting first with designing the interfaces, secondly working further on configuration, then thirdly a few of the profile implementations. After this, the service host object will need to be written, and we can start to test some early implementations to see what happens. Exciting times!
CommentsStreaming Sep 8 2005
At the minute when I want to listen to music from home, at work, I have three choices. I listen over RDC (terrible quality). I use some already written streaming software and setup a streaming server. Or (this is what I do at the minute), I upload the music I want to listen to to work, with the obvious disadvantage that I’m quickly re-building my home music library, at work.
CommentsProjects Sep 5 2005
Quick update on the billion projects I’m working on (ok, slight exaggeration). I posted last week on the Mono mailing list looking for more dev’s to join the Amber project; with the grand total of one e-mail reply, and a possible new member of the team, at least the project is progressing (one new member is better than zero!). Meanwhile, I’m currently working on unifying much of the re-usable code amongst my numerous projects, as I want to now base many of my projects with an open source framework/library. I then have an open source project that will be built upon that (xSh, wiki/website pending), and a couple of ideas for platforms and systems that will be built on top of that same framework also. While the framework will always remain open source, some of the ideas I have that will build upon that source could well turn out to be proprietary pieces of software, commercial ventures so to speak; although I’m yet to decide on that. Depends on how good I really think each idea is I guess ;-)
CommentsLong time... no blog? Sep 5 2005
It’s been a while since I last blogged, and a lot has happened. I’ve read many a blog on Hurricane Katrina and it’s aftermath, and really if you look around on the net, most of what could have been said about the handling of the recovery operation by various world governments, already has been said, so I don’t want to wade into that. Simply to say that the one thing that’s overlooked, seems to be that the world is slowly going mad… This time it was mother nature wreaking havoc, not an enemy we can see and quantify; but the effect on humankind was all too similar. And to see civilization effectively fall apart in one city following such devastation, with looting, rioting, violence etc, just sums up a growing concern I have with the world, it’s attitudes, and where we might be in 5, 10, 20 years…
CommentsHula Aug 24 2005
Thanks largely in part to the Hula community, I am starting to make progress with getting Hula installed on my Mac Mini. There are a lot of people also wishing to see it up and running, and it’s cool to see progress as different people work out solutions for the various problems standing between us, and a complete working Hula installation on Mac. I’m working on a patch at the minute that will hopefully resolve one issue, and then I want to move on to another outstanding issue we’ve got. When the community is a good one, it’s far easier to commit time, effort and energy into helping that community out, knowing that they are doing the same in return. It’s awesome.
CommentsAmber update Aug 24 2005
Going to start wrapping up the Amber architecture/interface design on the wiki next couple of days, then over the weekend, I hope to start coding. Idea is to really get stuck in, and try and get maybe a couple of prototype bindings/transports/channels up within the next few weeks.
CommentsGAC Hell Aug 24 2005
As much as I love working with .Net, some things about it still leave a lot to be desired. Specifically, M$’s claims that the days of DLL hell are over. Sure, they have done away with binary compatibility, but thanks to the GAC, I have to deal with an all new type of hell. GAC hell. Sure, a central cache is nice, until you need to work out why a specific assembly doesn’t appear to be ‘taking effect’ once deployed, or simply why you are getting TypeLoad exception’s and the like. I’m sure when used as is probably outlined in some M$ whitepaper somewhere, it will work as intended. However for normal use, the GAC isn’t at all intuitive and useful. And ofcourse, I could just not use it… except for the fact that assemblies with certain types in it (specifically IServicedComponents that proxy to a different machine), seem intent on installing themselves in the GAC. There are probably others that do the same. Argghhh!
CommentsFramework Aug 24 2005
I’m trying to consolidate some of the re-usable aspects of a few of my .Net/Mono open source apps at the minute, into one framework. Earlier I moved xTest, my simple unit testing framework, into this centralised re-usable framework, and I plan for the next component of the framework to be an auto-updater, for checking for and installing updates for an app. I used NAnt to create a pretty sweet build file, allowing any of the individual assemblies to be built, any one of the full components to be built, or for the entire thing to be built.
CommentsVindaloo Aug 23 2005
Went out for dinner with my family this evening to celebrate my birthday, at the local House of Spice curry house. I had a vindaloo, and it was most excellent. Was a nicer way to round off what had been an incredibly boring and uneventful birthday. Note to self: book next year’s birthday off work. Last few year’s I’ve worked my birthday, and I just end up complaining about how boring it is :-P
CommentsThe Bled Aug 23 2005
Ah, and also, got The Bled’s new album for my birthday, and it rawks!
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