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Donating my HTC Touch Pro (raph100)
I bought the HTC Touch Pro some months ago in order to port the freesmartphone.org middleware to it and help to raise an end-user distro. While things began very optimistic (i.e. the modem support was completed after just a few weeks), it came to a relative halt pretty soonish afterwards -- because of missing kernel support. Google releasing the kernel source code for the HTC Dream has enabled the HTClinux folks to quickly come up with some very impressive results, but due to the heavy differences in the baseband firmware it did not spare them from carrying out an amazing...
Towards the end of 2009
I just came back from the annual OpenEmbedded Developer Meeting (OEDEM) which happened to be in Cambridge, UK. It was a very productive meeting and we agreed on some important things to move OpenEmbedded forward as a whole. Please see the mailing lists for meeting minutes and summaries. We also elected a new board for the e.V. and despite the grief that led to me leaving the OE core team (which subsequently lead to the dissolving of it), I have volunteered (and been reelected) to serve a 2nd year as board member. As written in a previous installment of this...
iPhone 3D engine programming part 1
Pumped up by the tremendous success of Fluid (4,000,000+ downloads) and Fluid 2 (50,000+ downloads), I started two month ago to write a real game for iPhone: Here is a modest report of my experience in the process.
Armadillo Space T-shirt
Finally received my Armadillo Space T-Shirt and mug. I recommend them !
Module Player
After bringing the Sid Player (and its siblings Pro and Lite) into the AppStore, we just delivered a new production, the Module Player (and its sibling Lite). The market-situation will be quite different this time, as there are already two other Module Players. We believe we have the highest quality play routine though and a proven user interface. 70000 mods at your fingertips! See the video for a short demo:
Please Vote!
I'm refraining from any concrete political statements in this blog, since blogs are very lacking as discussion platforms. What I do want to say though is, please vote this sunday! Every missing vote is a bullet in the guns of the radical parties, no matter whether they're positioned left or right. Please take your chance, voice your opinion and vote! P.S. Klarmachen zum Ändern? :)
GSM Palm Pre on the horizon
As mentioned, the freesmartphone.org team and community has taken the challenge to put the FSO stack on the Palm Pre which is out next month. The goal is to manage a voice call with the FSO stack within four weeks. The idea behind this is a very important one. With only the Openmoko FreeRunner as a platform, the FSO stack is doomed into oblivion sooner or later, since its a very limited hardware platform -- in quantity, but considering the closed alternatives also in quality. Hence, we need to proof that FSO can run on current, competitive hardware -- to...
Vala gains support for server-side async dbus
Something wonderful has happened! Jürg Billeter -- mastermind of Vala -- pushed support for server-side async dbus into Vala. I hope I didn't annoy him too much (having continuesly pestered for almost a year now), but the net effect is that we can now continue working on fsogsmd, the Vala implementation of our dbus GSM server (see http://docs.freesmartphone.org for an overview of the API). Yay!
Too much broken hardware
Let me announce the 3rd piece of broken hardware in 3 months. This is definitely too much :( First my Dreambox 7025, then a Denon AV receiver, and now my Linux workstation decided to die. It looks like (hopefully) just the PSU is to blame though -- doesn't react to incoming power any more. As if I had time for such things *sigh* ... Update: It looks like there was a power surge during a thunderstorm. My Dreambox and AppleTV halted as well... aaargh Update 2: A new PSU brings the workstation back to live *phew*. Dreambox and AppleTV did...