Themes with Cairo were always a goal, but never implemented. Now, with PiClock, they are a reality.
GTK+
Back in October I started work on a new app for PiBox: an XM radio player. The hardware is an XMPCR, a device sold in the early 2000’s that connected over USB to a PC. The device didn’t last long. I think there was some concern that people would steal […]
PiBox: XM radio app (PiXM) and wifi scanning in PNC
PiBox Media Center v0.11.0 Release 2016-10-11 The PiBox Media Center v0.11.0 binary releases are now available for download. This release represents the first public release that will be demo’d at this weeks Maker Faire in Colorado Springs. It’s focus has been on performance, usability and developer functionality. Additional Information Meetup […]
PiBox 0.11.0 release
This past weekend I took PiBox out in the trailer for a field trial. The box was mounted under a cabinet with power and HDMI wrapped around to a 7″ HDMI-input monitor. Power on worked fine and the system came right up. But not everything worked as expected. Here is […]
PiBox field trial results
The build for the QEMU phase now runs Matchbox as the default UI. I’ve integrated an xterm patch from Buildroot’s source tree and launch it as the default application, allowing some runtime testing through the UI. Today I also finished integration of the surf browser into the buld. This was […]
BeagleBox update: Matchbox is now the default UI, surf ...
I've spent the past month preparing for and implementing a migration from Comcast cable TV to relying on both off-air HDTV and Internet video. The easy part was dumping Comcast, though they magically managed to NOT turn off billing because they had to send out a service tech (for no […]
From Cable TV to Internet TV – A Nerd’s Journey
Today I released a complete rewrite of XNotesPlus, which I've renamed XNotesNG. This version was properly architected (well, mostly) and implemented in Java. Unlike other Java developers, I don't use IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans. Instead, I rely on the tried and true tools of kernel developers: cscope and vi. […]
XNotesNG: XNotesPlus never dies, it just evolves
I built an Ubuntu Server image this week because I needed to test an application we built at work would work without X.org and GTK+ installed. Turns out it does. That’s good. But in testing I got annoyed with the 80 character width of the console. See, Ubuntu Server doesn’t […]
Mounting KVM images manually
I placed an order for a gray Peek from Amazon. The gray Peek’s are$2 less than the colored ones. Who needs a colored one for hacking? Anyway, it should arrive by Saturday. In the meantime I’ve been watching the videos and scanning online resources to learn about the internals of […]
Peek ordered, learning about the hardware
My previous posts on doing Fedora upgrades cover most of the topic but I realized there were a few things I left out. Installing additional applications The first thing has to do with some useful applications that Mauriat Miranda doesn’t cover on his excellent Fedora installation guidelines. xpdf – a […]
Upgrade addendum: other packages of interest, configuring a Wacom ...
As the year grows to a close I find myself finishing up projects and preparing for the new year. I put together roughly 90,000 lines of code this year on a single project with one other developer, probably split somewhere around 80/20. It is, as I’ve told him, our boss […]
Top ten things I’ve learned about software development
Rondam Ramblings: Top ten geek business myths is a blog from a guy named Ron Garret who's been there, done that, and wants the geeks of the world to know that the truth just aint what you think. I won't rehash the whole blog, but let me summarize: If you […]