In my ongoing uphill battle to maintain at least one meaningful post per year in this solitary monologue, here is the new entry I announced earlier today.

I must warn Planet Maemo purists (if there are still any) that it is not, stricto sensu, Maemo-related.

It is, however, a follow-up on previous posts dating back to 2009, so it is arguably not completely off-topic either :-)

You can read it on my new host & blog:

w4.monbo.net/blog/index.php?article33/a-foolish-consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-little-minds

 

Belatedly I have realized that going along with big old WordPress for this intermittent blog of mine was probably a mistake.

I use about 1% of its wealth of functionality, and not often enough to become proficient at it. It’s also slow as molasses on this cheap host I’ve been using.

Moving to a better host (for many other reasons) also made me aware of the hassle involved in carrying over database contents for such apps.

So instead I painstakingly extracted my posts from WordPress and ported them to a much simpler, lighter and database-less blog app called PluXml.

There will be a post with actual content appearing shortly on this new media, which makes it two posts this year, a huge improvement on the previous ones :-)

The new IBTC is at http://w4.monbo.net/blog/ and the old one will probably disappear shortly.

 

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About four years ago I created the first code for AGTL. It was built on previous experience I made with a very simple geocaching application for Android. Ever since, I kept AGTL running, first on the Openmoko Freerunner, then on the Nokia N900 (still a great phone!) and finally on the Nokia N9. And ever since, I had less time than I wanted to fix bugs, create new features and to stay in contact with you, the community. A few days ago, I switched from the Nokia N9 to the Dark Side, a.k.a., Andr...

About four years ago I created the first code for AGTL. It was built on previous experience I made with a very simple geocaching application for Android. Ever since, I kept AGTL running, first on the Openmoko Freerunner, then on the Nokia N900 (still a great phone!) and finally on the Nokia N9. And ever since, I had less time than I wanted to fix bugs, create new features and to stay in contact with you, the community.

A few days ago, I switched from the Nokia N9 to the Dark Side, a.k.a., Android (Nexus 5). With this switch I lost the ability to test new version of AGTL on the N9 and to use the software for myself (still the best method for finding bugs). Therefore, I decided to lay the responsibility for AGTL into the hands of somebody else. I decided to name Aapo Rantalainen as the new maintainer for AGTL. He caught my attention with many helpful bug reports and patches for AGTL, so I decided to pass the torch to him. Apparently, this has already paid off: Aapo made a lot of commits during the last days, fixing bugs and applying patches that I didn't have time for.

I hope to be able to help here and there with AGTL, and to stay up-to-date on its further development. New versions will be announced on this website.

Thanks to Aapo for taking the responsibility and to all the other people that provided me with bug reports, feature suggestions and (sometimes also monetary) input during the last years! It was definitely a great time and its not over yet!

Overview

Eyrie is a music identification program that I originally created for the Nokia N9 but which I’ve now also ported to Ubuntu Touch. It works in a similar way to commercial applications like Shazam and SoundHound, listening to music through the phone’s microphone and then generating an acoustic fingerprint using the open source EchoPrint algorithm. Currently the EchoPrint database isn’t anywhere near as large as the various commercial offerings, so it won’t recognise everything, but it has reasonable coverage.

Video

Video of Eyrie running on Ubuntu Touch

Installation

To install Eyrie on Ubuntu Touch simply search for “Eyrie” on your phone and it should appear.

I've just release a new version of Tirelire 1.1.0. This minor release add a settings page, so you ll be able to set the currency symbol for the money you use.

With all the talk about debian choosing a default init system (link, link), I've decided to share with the world a little project I've been working on to help me understand /sbin/init aka. PID 1. In this blog post I will go step by step showing what an init system must do to be functional. … Continue reading Demystifying the init system (PID 1)