Last month I did a presentation on the concept of redundancy in a human factor related seminar at university. As most participants were non-IT people and using Windows I felt like promoting Free Software without making it “too loud”. So I came up with the idea of putting a rubber stamp “Created with Free Software” [...]
Quick (re-)introduction: My task for Gentoo/Google Summer of Code 2009 is to give Gentoo a Debian popcon equivalent, a tool to collect statistics on “what package is installed how often”. To achieve this goal I’m extending Smolt (a tool currently doing similar things with hardware information) by fine-tunable software stats gathering. The plan we have [...]
Sorry, in case that hits you. I had to do it: I made a mistake during the initial Subversion to Git repository import which is why several commits somewhere around libspiff-0.7.0 were not imported at all. The Subversion server disconnected a few times and it seems that continuing with the very same clone command was [...]
There are two XSPF-related projects for Summer of Code this year: XSPF import and export for Songbird Python library / Online validator refactoring Please check the Summer of Code 2009 page at the Xiph Wiki for details and the complete list of Xiph projects waiting for you to apply. Student application starts in two days [...]
This release features build system changes and fixes, as well as an extension for the C bindings for parsing XSPF from a block of memory. Please see the change log for details. This release is both source- and binary-compatible. Download Changelog
bs2b is short for “Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP”, an audio effect increasing headphone listening pleasure. Check the well-explained algorithm details for more. I helped with making a shared library from bs2b using the Autotools family: Autoconf, Automake, Libtool, autogen.sh. The just-released libbs2b-2.2.1 is featuring that. bs2b plugins for many popular audio players are already available (e.g. [...]
With this release libSpiff mutates into libxspf, same thing new name. Under the hood the build system has improved and generation of Qt Assistant-friendly documentation has been added. The source code moved from a Subversion to a Git repository. Please meet me at the XSPF mailing list to team up on any transition-related issues. Thank [...]
I’m still at renaming libSpiff to libxspf and as part of that I also decided to move from Subversion to Git. In case anybody plans to do similar here is what I did: Get a shell account at git.xiph.org and write access to /var/www/git.xiph.org/libxspf.git/. Run a few commands only my local shell: # Fetch old [...]
I’m looking for a job with following three required qualities: Producing Free Open Source Software Part time, about two days a week From home or in Berlin, Germany I’m quite open about the rest though I sure won’t do Visual Basic Being sponsored on continuing development of uriparser would rock, for instance. Check out my [...]
From today on all post content on this blog including past posts is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Germany License. I’ve been seeing value in Creative Commons for quite some time now but never really thought of applying it to my own blog…? I guess I wasn’t really aware that this is [...]
