Technology

Functionality

Well its back to real life now and I can already feel the buzz from linux.conf.au starting to wear thin. Fortunately it has lasted long enough though for me to get a hell of a lot of things done. I met some terrific people at LCA including Rob Bradford from O-Hand in the UK (Thanks for the stickers) […]

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Polishing Gloss

So I’ve been promising it for quite a while now, but the latest Gloss screencast is finally out, and its a doozy. Its a full 5 minutes long and has commentary explaining various features. As usual, its up on YouTube: The last few weeks have been very hectic on the Gloss front as I’m preparing to show it […]

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Bugs and regressions

So I figured that before the sheer number of changes overwhelmed me to the point of forgetting them all, I’d make another long overdue entry about Gloss. Firstly, I mentioned in my last entry that I had submitted a proposal for a lightning talk on Gloss at linux.conf.au, well I can confirm that this will be going ahead […]

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All the small things

Well its been a little while between updates so I thought I should pop something up. Gloss has been moving slowly, but steadily, forward. I took a break from coding / technology for about a month when I visited Singapore and have been a bit slack getting back into things. That said, they’re well and truly back on […]

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Gloss gets video

So time for another Gloss update. I’ve put in a lot of effort lately to adding new feature so its highly unstable at the moment but most of the things that were working continue to do so and there’s even been the odd bug fixed. As far as new features go, the big ticket items are: A video […]

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And yet more Gloss

Well as promised I’ve produced a second demo screencast for Gloss. It doesn’t contain everything I’d wanted to get in it as many of these features simply haven’t been finished. I’ve been struggling a lot with gstreamer and bending it to my will. This is shown by the simple fact that the videos shown in the screencast are […]

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More Gloss

Well things have been progressing on the Gloss front, not with massive steps, but constant. I’m hoping to have a second webcast up later this week that will demo the new features such as Live TV and DVD watching. Gloss has also been given a more permanent home on Google Code. It can be found at http://code.google.com/p/gloss-mc/ and […]

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Introducing Gloss

Well its been a while between updates, things have been out of control busy (You know, getting engaged and all), but I have been keeping busy. A little while ago I discovered the Clutter project which is a OpenGl accelerated 2D framework for linux and decided that I’d have a crack at producing something with it. Seeing that […]

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Tux gambling FTW!

This picture was posted on the Linux Australia mailing list today and I thought it was great: Its a scratchy that has been issues by South Australian Lotteries, the official site for which is http://www.salotteries.sa.gov.au/games/InstantScratchiesType.aspx?p=73 I guess someone just went looking for a good looking penguin, comforting to know that Tux is the first one they found (Or […]

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My plea to Digg

Dear Digg, You’re one of my favourite websites, certainly one of the ones I visit the most, so it pains me to see you writhing in pain over this whole HD DVD key thing. If history has shown us anything though, its that sitting on your hands in a moment of crisis will do nothing but cause harm. […]

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