Just a little cool note. GoldenPod was featured in this month’s (April) issue of Linux journal in their podcasting article :).
Archive for April, 2006
GoldenPod in the Linux journal
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006Day planner: a request for comments
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006I just recently released version 0.1 of my day planning app suitably named, well, day planner. It’s written in perl and uses the perl-gtk2 library. What I would like you (the readers of planet mandriva and/or my blog) to do is go test it. Poke it with long and small sticks, smash at it, punch it, hit it, kick it. I want the program to be as stable and usable as possible. Report bugs, report usability problems and report feature requests. I want them all, and all help is welcome.
You can find a day planner RPM in cooker or on the day planner download page (along with numerous other options).
Please read the day planner TODO list before reporting issues. It’s not that long :).
You may also be interested in reading the day planner vision.
Why GNA! is better than Savannah
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006In the beginning there was…blah, okay I won’t go that far. Though, the first host provider I used was SourceForge.net. I used that for three projects:
GFSGL, GFSI and GoldenFiles. Mostly random stuff there, not too large projects.
Then one day I thought about this and well, using a proprietary website to produce and manage a free software project makes…well…no sense. So then I started looking at the alternatives. I landed on Savannah. My first Savannah project was GoldenPod. Followed by the (mostly dead) GoldenBackup (no link due to no website nor release, it does have a CVS though). Then followed by the common configuration parser. Then I had my disagreements with Savannah (as some of you might remember).
Then I started looking at GNA! which I am now using for my most active project, Day planner. Now what does GNA! have to offer that Savannah doesn’t?
Well, it offers easier access to the downloads directory, I can simply rsync/scp stuff from my box to the GNA! download directory. It also has SVN which is imho MUCH better than CVS (I’ve never used Arch, so I won’t say anything about that). They also offer download/website statistics, something Savannah doesn’t. The only plus of Savannah I can find is some of their admins. I’ve spoken with a few of them and they where very nice, savannah also has an IRC channel (#savannah on freenode) which is rather nice. Though currently, I’ll take my GNA! without my Savannah if that is possible thank you very much.
Code monkey like you!
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006http://www.jonathancoulton.com/music/thingaweek/CodeMonkey.mp3
This code monkey like Lisbeth. Who do you?
Great song. For those lazy of you out there (yeah, there’s quite many lazy people that will read this blog post):
wget http://www.jonathancoulton.com/music/thingaweek/CodeMonkey.mp3 ; mplayer ./CodeMonkey.mp3
I’m saved
Saturday, April 1st, 2006I never before realized how useful it would be to have an entire operating environment inside my text editor! How useful indeed, it can even do my window management if I want to. Yes, I’m ofcourse talking about the ultimate text editor/operating environment/irc client/psychologist combo: Emacs! Today I switched to using emacs, and I haven’t looked back at that little text editor called vim, not once. Finally I don’t have to leave my text editor to check IRC! How useful. Now now, all vim fanatics, don’t rush all over me. Go try it! :)
I don’t see what all the fuss about XGL, GNOME and KDE is when we already have the ultimate operating environment and more in emacs. Due to this amazing discovery there will also be a special club-only version of Mandriva Linux 2007 called “Mandriva Emacs/Linux 2007″ featuring a full Mandriva patched Linux kernel with Emacs as the default operating environment.
Edit: Yes, you should check the date before jumping to conclusions :)