First frigging milestone..

29May08

Why Milestone? Nope, I didn’t come up with fancy code or a “beautiful” one for that matter (Came up with a way to unload plugins). Milestone, because today was the first day I was squeezing up my half empty head to work around a teency weency problem. In short, I am happy I was actually [...]

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odeviced: progress report :P

22May08

So, presenting a preliminary skeleton service for odeviced that loads shared object libraries (or in other words plugins). Nothing to be proud of, but hey, something is better than nothing.
Here’s a screenshot of a very very preliminary odeviced in action..

Basically its just a dbus service that can load modules from a predefined location. Here’s how [...]

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Fun with Vala and DBus

18May08

After the lousy semester exams, I decided put in some time to learn vala and dbus to cheer me up. For the unitiated,

`Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and [...]

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