New desktop computer has arrived. New hard drive for my laptop that died last year has arrived.

So I finally have a computer ordered to replace my home development computer that died in November/December (2008).

So what does this mean? I plan on fixing up DeVeDe to run better on windows and get it back up to date with the latest release.

Looking through the code I have for the .NET dreamhost library I can now say that I have 100% of the private server API covered. Unless I have overlooked something, as far as I can tell I only have the Announcement list left to do.

This has been an interesting project and a nice introduction to a few simple aspects of .NET programming. Once the announcement API is finished I am not sure if I will continue with this project. If I do continue I will clean up the code somewhat and make the error reporting more useful.

I was going to update the windows package of DeVeDe to 3.13.0 today but ran into a problem. Unfortunately for now I will leave it at 3.12.2 because I need the most recent version of pygtk which has not been released for windows yet. So it may be a few weeks before newer version of DeVeDe are uploaded, whenever a new version PyGTK is released.

DeVeDe

I have not been doing to much work on devede lately as my main development machine has died. I should be getting a new one shortly, but still it will probably be the summer before I get one. No worries though, I will make sure I keep updating the installers to match the www.rastersoft.com linux devede releases.

I spent some time today and updated the source code for DeVeDe Windows to use gtk.Builder instead of glade. Seems to work okay, although I will spend some more time testing and fixing a few bugs. My primary reason for this is that it would allow me to use the version of GTK distributed from www.gtk.org without having to bother getting glade to work with it on Windows. So perhaps someday soon DeVeDe will switch over to using the new builder technology.

A couple of months ago I sort of forked off a version of oggconvert and called it video2theora. Basically what I did was take the oggconverts projects glade file as a base and instead of using gstreamer I used ffmpeg to create a program that would allow converting video files to theora videos for use with the new firefox and opera video tags.

I got sick of the brokenness of the Ubuntu install that came with the dell mini, so like many others I have installed Ubuntu 8.10 to solve my problems. And you know what? It did solve all my problems. Everything is now working. I did have to touch a configuration file to enable sound, but compared to the problems with the system it came with it was well worth the five seconds that it took to enable audio.

I bought and then received on December 24, 2008 my new dell minis. I bought one with Ubuntu and one with XP. The XP one is working well even if the way the mouse pad works is annoying. Ubuntu on the other hand has been a rather large disappointment. It is not worse than any other install of it that I have done, but it is not much better.

Check out http://majorsilence.com/pygtk_book for the most up to date version.

The best way to describe clutter is to quote its home page which states:

Clutter is an open source software library for creating fast, visually rich and animate graphical user interfaces.

Clutter can be integrated with many Linux technologies including GStreamer, Cairo a GTK+. It also is portable and runs on Windows and OSX, which allows for cross platform goodness.