KILL THEM ALL AND LET A NORSE GOD SORT 'EM OUT

In some of my spare time I’m working on modernizing Banshee’s hardware support (all the while lamenting the death of HAL). With HAL we had a nice (although monolithic) toolkit-agnostic hardware layer that was used through dbus. HAL was deprecated in favor of using udev, which is the the Kernel’s hardware event system. I’m sure udev is much nicer from an engineering point of view, but it’s certainly not as nice for application developers as a big old dbus-interface where any information about hardware could be retrieved was. Regardless of how I feel about HAL, HAL is still gone, so Banshee still needs updated to udev. Since udev is so new, no one had made C# bindings for libgudev yet, so I decided to take a stab at using GAPI to generate C# bindings. After hours of talking to myself in irc, trying to trick RAOF into doing my work for me, gudev-sharp is born! It just successfully ran the (incredibly simple) test code I wrote just to make sure it wouldn’t segfault. If you’re interested in modern hardware support via C#, help write unit tests!

I know some people are going to say “bzr? launchpad? And you want this adopted?”. It can move whenever it needs to, LP and bzr are my tools of choice, but if upstream Mono wants to move this into svn, I’d be happy to see it go.

It’s the 14th already, and I actually blew through my record budget within the first week. I would have made this post earlier but

1. I was a little embarrassed I blew through my record budget within the first week
2. I was waiting for a record to come in from the Czech Republic

So here they are, in all of their beautiful waxy glory.

1. Eternal – Lucifer’s Children: Electric Wizard side project band!! X/500!
2. Anima Morte/Hooden Menace split picture disc! X/500
3. Leather – Ancorite. I don’t know how many of these there are, but I got a test press!
4. Killing Joke s/t
5. Sisters of Mercy – Floodland
6. Bauhaus – Press Eject and Give Me the Tape

Not bad for $50 right? The Eternal record is killer, I saw the artwork in the record store and it struck me as Electric Wizard like, so I picked it up, brought it home, and found out a) it’s rare b) it’s pre-electric wizard c) IT’S HEAVY

Tonight I finally pushed the revisions to bzr that removed Docky from the Do source tree. For a while now Docky has been being developed as a stand alone application separate from Do. The two projects were limiting one another, so a decision was made to split them out. In the future there will be some of docky <–> do integration, but for now Docky is going to be the most kick ass Dock you’ve ever seen, and Do is going to be the most kickass launcher/everything-else-do-does you’ve ever seen.

In Ubuntu Lucid you can install Docky from the software center, otherwise the source is available at http://launchpad.net/docky. Today is the start of a new day in Do, development is going to start rolling again, and there should be a new kick ass release in the coming months. We’ve let things slide, but we’re kicking it back into gear.

I’ve made a resolution to make my bed every day. This post is for public accountability of this resolution. I know that most people reading this will never be near my bed, but if we’re chatting at some point please ask me how it’s going and give me a hard time if I say I’ve been slacking.

Photo (c) 2009 jek in the box

No that’s not my bed.