Since about three months I’m already running a second blog: Noya [live]. It is a live-blog where I post pictures that are taken with my mobile-camera. This stream of pictures maybe gives a closer and more intimate view of the things I experience from day to day.
PS: the latest pictures are also linked in the sidebar on this blog.
Getting this blog online again took longer than expected (more than a month, *sigh*). But as always: better late than never! With moving to a new server a few more things changed:
First I got myself a new domain, namely inrain.org. Consequently the blog has a new address: http://noya.inrain.org/blog. Please update your bookmarks and/or rss-feed-readers.
Furthermore the permalink-structure (the URLs pointing to individuell posts) changed from “blog/index.php/y/m/d/postname” to the more readable “blog/y/m/d/postname”. Again, please update any bookmarks and/or links you have to posts of this blog.
Also the blog is now no longer called “aboutnoya”, but (more neutral, less egocentric 
) “noya.inrain.org/blog”.
Other changes? WordPress was upgraded to version 2.7. I also think about a new design, what you can see here now is only temporary.
Comming up next: Some (hopefully) more interesting posts 
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Yeah, you guessed right: the aboutnoya blog will move to a new server. Straight out of the world of Gates and Windows to a friendlier place powered by a VPS running Debian.
PS: the blog might be unavailable from time to time for the next few days until the move is complete. If that happens, just don’t worry and check back later .
Version 0.5.0 brings online-functionality to libsoylent. Want to launch a chat with someone? One function call. Want to see who’s online? One function call. Want to see someone’s online-status? You get it.
This release is also the last one for Google Summer of Code 2008. It’s the result of about four months of work. Phew.
The plan for the next release is that it will be a pure documentation and bug-fixing release. Also in that version: libsoylent will stop taking control of strings passed to it.
Changes
Download
libsoylent is available for download at:
http://live.gnome.org/Soylent/libsoylent
Contact
Feature requests, questions and related discussion go to the Soylent mailinglist. You can join at:
http://lists.codethink.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soylent-devel
If you found a bug please report it at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=soylent
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More information on libsoylent is available at:
Let me present you the newest version of libsoylent: 0.4.0. Three weeks of hard work went into this release, and in fact so much was added and changed that we decided to skip a version-number. Sorry 0.3.0.
So, what’s in it? More or less a complete people-management-library. Our goal was to create a simple yet-powerful API that “just works”. Hopefully we managed that. If you have no clear picture of what libsoylent is or just want to know more about it, look at the examples we’ve put up on the libsoylent-page.
What comes next? Because the library is that new and fresh, much testing will be needed. If you want to help, just play around with libsoylent and report bugs that you may encounter to our mailinglist. Thanks! Besides, next to the need of more documentation and polishing, here is a list of features that will follow in the next releases:
Please leave a comment on my blog if you have thoughts, ideas, criticism, feature-requests or suggestions for changing something. Just let us hear your opinion.
Anyway, if you’re working on something that needs people-functionality, why not give libsoylent a try?
Changes
Download
libsoylent is available for download at:
http://live.gnome.org/Soylent/libsoylent
Contact
Bugs, feature requests, questions and related discussion go to the Soylent mailinglist. You can join at:
http://lists.codethink.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soylent-devel
More
More information on libsoylent is available at:
http://live.gnome.org/Soylent/libsoylent
I recently upgraded to WordPress v2.6. After a quick check, everything seemed to work fine. However a few minutes ago a reader of this blog told me that he encountered some problems: The overview would work, but everything else like reading certain posts, commenting or using the RSS feed produces a “404 – not found” error. I quickly found out that the blog was experiencing bug #7306. The suggested workaround, filling the category and tag fields under wp-admin -> Settings -> Permalink, worked instantly and now everything should be up and running again. Let’s hope WordPress v2.6.1 will be released soon to fix the problem without the need for workarounds.
What happened since the last release? It has been a productive week for libsoylent.
Attributes are implemented. That means adding and removing attributes to / from people as well as modifying them works. With that come attribute-handlers. That’s basically a system which provides a way to convert runtime-types to libsoylent-system-types, so you can use arbitrary types like C-structs as attributes (for more information on that see the libsoylent API-draft). Furthermore storing and loading people (and attributes) works. Also the SVN trunk now contains some documentation and a bit of example-code.
Some important things are still on the TODO-list: some bugs have found their way into the code and want to be removed soon. Signals are not implemented at the moment, so libsoylent won’t notify you if some person was added or modified or something like-wise. And of course some more documentation and example-code wouldn’t hurt.
So, when will libsoylent be usable? The answer is: soon! Perhaps with the next release, coming in one week?
The second release features the basic functionality one would expect from a people-library. Create addressbooks and add some people to it. And then remove them again. People management at its basic level.
Changes
Download
libsoylent is available for download at:
http://live.gnome.org/Soylent/libsoylent
Contact
Bugs, feature requests, questions and related discussion go to the Soylent mailinglist. You can join at:
http://lists.codethink.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soylent-devel
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The first release of libsoylent is finally there. It contains the most important GObject classes and many function and method stubs and should provide a good ground for the next upcoming features. You can’t do much with it, but you will get a good impression of the whole libsoylent architecture.
Changes
Download
libsoylent is available for download at:
http://live.gnome.org/Soylent/libsoylent
Contact
Bugs, feature requests, questions and related discussion go to the Soylent
mailinglist. You can join at:
http://lists.codethink.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soylent-devel
More
More information on libsoylent is available at:
Moving to the new flat took longer than expected. But I think the extra time was worth it. The whole flat and my room look pretty nice and comfortable now. Most things are organized, only for the party on friday there is some planing left to do . Internet is still an issue after two weeks of having (almost) no internet-access. Currently we are using the neighbours WLAN until our ISP is done with installing the new connection.
The Southside festival was great too. Radiohead and Sigur Ros, yeah! Tegan and Sara were also amazing. Looking back I would say it was one of the best music festivals I’ve been to so far.
Nevertheless, being away for two weeks kept me slightly behind my schedule. Version 0.1 is ready but not released, because of organizational reasons. In the meantime I’m already working on v0.2.
Last week I finished the foundation of libsoylent. That basically means I thought in greater detail of the architecture (see below), designed the needed GObject classes and made stubs for most functions and methods. From now on there should be a release every week, and a solid foundation will help a lot.
The libsoylent architecture as shown in the diagram: SlBook is the addressbook where people (SlPerson) and groups (SlGroup) are stored. People and Groups are entities (i.e. objects with attributes that can be modified etc.). SlEntities are backed by SlEntityHandlers. For SlPerson there will be an EDS-handler and for SlGroup a file-handler. More handlers can easily be added (if needed).
The storage of attributes (SlAttribute) is managed by attribute-handlers (SlAttributeHandler). They are responsible to convert runtime-values to values that can be stored by the entity-handlers (e.g. a SlAddress C-struct to a VCard-string for EDS).
If you have any thoughts on the architecture I’d be glad to hear them. This week I will have more time and work on people, group and addressbook management. And of course on the first release .