It’s been a long time coming but finally 1.1.0 is almost here. The new stuff is: plugins, improved search, opengl output with fancy transition animations, python support, movie collection. ofdb.de support, last.fm support, improved lcd support and new theme. More here (pictures :-)).
I did a small video to show how one can use a nokia 770 (the n800 works even better) together with MMS that you can see here.
Acmelabs did a small video of the opengl plugin in action:
The bzr guys just released 1.0 yesterday. Congrats guys! bzr is truly awesome, as in just works, and for the past 1 or 2 years have been been working really good for MMS.
Just finished watching the probably best talk of FOWA again. Watch this brilliant talk, it’s both insightful and funny as hell.
Ole, friend and collegue from iola, released flot today. Flot is a Javascript plot library for jQuery released under the MIT license. The release got mentioned on Ajaxian and brought the server this blog is also hosted on to its knees. Several hours later, out server is now up and running again with lighthttp as a proxy shield in front of the dear apache server that could handle the load 🙂
Check it out if you need some client side web plotting. The graphs are quite nice since they are antialised and with shadows 🙂
Seeing the new os2008 released for the nokia 800 as well I decided that it was time to upgrade my trusty old n770. The n800 has the same hardware as the n810 but is missing GPS and slide-keyboard. I have a GPS receiver from my n770 navigation kit so I thought I would save the 200 euro and still be one generation behind the latest and greatest internet tablet from nokia 🙂 So far I have been more than impressed with the device. The next OS is absolutely amazing. The layout of the new theme is great (much more finger-friendly), the speed is much improved and the keys are much better than my old n770, making it much easier to navigate around in MMS over VNC.
Another great thing is that it now works with my Samsung E800 phone out of the box so no need to use the terrible hack anymore.
I’m very pleased that I can now finally lift the curtain and show what I’ve been spending most of my time working at iola on.
It’s been a long ride, but now the alpha release is finally ready for public consumption 🙂
So here at iola we use subversion internally. It’s ridiculus that the following use case doesn’t work:
<do stuff>
svn commit
<do stuff>
svn commit
<I forgot what I had written in last commit log>
svn log (local copy out of date, only shows revision before the first commit)
svn update
svn: Working copy ‘.’ locked
svn: run ‘svn cleanup’ to remove locks (type ‘svn help cleanup’ for details)
Owned 🙁
Finally got through the mighty Practical Common Lisp tome. The style of the book is written in a nice mix of theory and practice (with relevant and good examples). My friend Lau asked me why on earth I would want to read a book on Lisp? A fair question since Lisp is really old, actually measured in computer time it might even be called ancient. But I had two main motivations for reading the book, to become a better programmer and secondly to better understand new language features introduced in languages like Boo and C#. Just look at the new LINQ features in C# 3.0 and specifically this video.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone interesting in a good programming book.
Best explaination I have found yet for the Dalvik VM for Android.
Two microsoft licenses approved as open source. It had to happen, open beats closed in the long run.