So today I joined the official iPhone Developer folks. First thing you do is to download the heavy iPhone SDK which comes in a “.dmg” file as many other bundles on Mac OS X.
What do you do though when you download it in Linux and want to look into it?
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Some interesting things happen in the GNOME world these days.
First of all John Carr posted about his progress with the synchronization utility Conduit regarding Windows CE devices. It will be a good day for Linux when we can plug in a mobile, let Conduit pop up and synchronize all your contacts/calendars/notes/files with the computer automatically.
The hazzle to configure all the opensync/msynctool command line stuff is just beyond any usability level for a regular user.
Much of the base of his work should also help in implementing SyncML stuff and make mobile synchronization hopefully just work in Linux.
Next comes GSoC veteran, James Sharpe, who has been working on my initial proposal to implement multiple desktop wallpaper support in GNOME. He has put up a video of his progress and all patches for the functionality are now in the bugtracker.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1QHs-STcHs[/youtube]
There are still open questions regarding the best UI to change the background and how this works on multi-display setups and with Compiz, but the progress is clearly visible. I just would have liked if the current background implementation would be further refactored instead of being built upon.
More GSoC gems are hiding like the media services tool to allow easy to use multimedia format conversion for any GStreamer supported format and more…
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Just a quick note that we are running WordPress 2.6 now. Upgrade was painless as usual and I recommend taking the time (took me around 30 minutes to migrate everything including custom theme/plugins/code etc.)…
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There are a couple of “Word like” onsite editors floating around but I need to rant about one stealing my time.
WordPress uses tinyMCE and it works well even while having it’s flaws, you get your work done, there are a couple of plugins to extend it to embed videos and all normal people need so you do not have to switch to the codeview as often.
Then there is the mess called FCKeditor (Best Quote: “the text editor for the internet”).
While it works after you are done installing it. It imposes a hell of design flaws onto you.
Yes, I had to fix issues with it as it was used on a website I was asked to help on and I do not feel like contributing to the original project either as they ripoff people to buy their advanced Filebrowser for something that is designated as a FOSS project in the first place.
An onsite visual editor should end up being useful and allow editors to be productive with it.
Short, I can haz NOT FCKeditor and try to avoid it in your next project!
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Damn, always had this on my mind but never picked this up…
Checkout “wordle“, a cool word cloud generator.
Only missing features seem to be the lack of a Flash implementation (requires JAVA now) and the inability to directly export the clouds as images (for wallpapers etc.; currently you have to screenshot the clouds…).
Off to Tallinn for a week tomorrow, new work is waiting.
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