Planet maemo: category "feed:09a4454142a8f9896476d4036a03e6ea"

Just a short note: due to an unfortunate regression, Modest (version: W16 release) does not work with SSL/TLS, breaking providers such as Gmail. See bug 3084. The reason was that what we tested with, differs slightly with the Chinook environment, and so this one fell through the cracks. Mea culpa... Anyhow, the problem has been fixed. If you build things yourself, get the latest (tinymail and modest) and all will work fine. If you don't want to do that, you'll have to wait until Monday; unfortunately, we can't do anything before that.

Once more, apologies from the Modest team for the inconvenience.

These are interesting times... I just found out that the next revision of our internet tablet will have WiMAX-support. Rest assured - modest will support that as well.

Also, recently I have been studying the (very much recommended!) work of Edward Tufte, on the visualization of data, and how modern technology is great at obfuscating real meaning behind snappy graphs. Still people are trying to generate meaningful (or sometimes just pretty) pictures out of masses of data. One of the masses of data being email messages. Check these great post on FlowingData which show many different visualization of email data. For a more practical example, look at MailTrends, which analyzes the emails in your Gmail account for your.

et tu, emacs?

I was very happy to see prebuild Emacs packages for Maemo. I wonder if my instructions are still valid, especially regarding key-bindings on the N810. Anyway, I'd be interested in the next steps in integration Emacs with the platform. I'd like to connect the HW-zoom buttons to zooming the fonts in Emacs, and maybe marry the emacs-server setup with the application menu -- ie., don't use new emacs instances for new files, but instead use new buffers in the existing instance. Now all I need is a little time.

I've returned to Helsinki after visiting the FOSDEM-conference in Brussels. Before anything else, I'd like to thank and compliment the organizers for creating a great conference. And not just the organizers, all the volunteers that made it another great FOSDEM. The amount of work that goes into something like this cannot be overestimated, and it all went very smooth. If anything, it was too succesful, so many people...

Anyway, I had the chance to meet a great many old friends, as well make new ones. It's fantastic to see all the free software projects that improve things all over the software stack. Kernel, console, X, web services, funky UI bling, end-user applications, embedded software,... So much combined brain power, pushing the envelope of free software.

I did a presentation (should be available soon) of our own little addition to that, the modest e-mail client. Although there was some delay (Murphy!), I was quite happy with my talk. And it was particularly interesting to talk to modest users - what do they like, what do they miss, and so on. Overall, we've been blessed with very helpful users, and with there assistance, we were able to kill quite a number of bugs which would have very hard to fix otherwise. See our resolved buglist in our bugzilla for some great examples of that.

Anyway, overall FOSDEM made me quite happy -- such a gathering of smart people and great software, promising a lot of good things for the free software future.

Note, screenshot is of the unstable, proof-of-concept GNOME desktop-version of modest, courtesy of dape.

This coming weekend, a big part of our multinational modest-team (Sergio, Berto, Philip and Dirk) will be at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels. There will even be a presentation about the modest e-mail client. So, if you have any questions, suggestions or even some constructive(!) criticism, this is your chance! You can use IM if you're looking for me (diggler[at]gmail.com).

Last year, I had a great time at FOSDEM, with many, many interesting people as well as the nice atmosphere (food and drinks) in Brussels. Hope to see many of you there!

Note, image has not much to do with this post, it's emacs22 running on my N810. More about that in my next post