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The conference hotel was impressively large, although apparently there was no swimming pool; we were offered the Pacific Ocean as an alternative. The food at the hotel, for breakfast and breaks, was a bit of a disappointment, but at the Exploratorium and restaurants in San Francisco it was pretty good. The hacker lounge was a place of good times, especially after the conference, when we watched Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. On our return home, we nearly got swindled by the taxi driver on the way to the airport, but luckily Kat was paying attention. Changing planes in New York was dull, but at least we had no issues with volcanic ash clouds, and got home safe, sound and on time.

7 1 ]]> David King <davidk@openismus.com> feed:5fd851f08b73df75a25ea2936a7ea5a3 Mon, 30 May 2011 10:01:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-8c3d3a468a9911e0b00eb9edc23763ed63ed http://amigadave.blogspot.com/2011/03/maemoorg-wiki-progress.html basic documentation for widely-used templates, and I will add some more in the future.

In terms of activity, there have been several additions to the new article on modifications for the Conversations application. Some contributions to the article on Alarmed commands would be appreciated, especially from some experienced users.

14 1 ]]> David King <davidk@openismus.com> feed:5fd851f08b73df75a25ea2936a7ea5a3 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:55:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-0fc29b6e4e3011e08df98f4f5e849f9c9f9c http://amigadave.blogspot.com/2011/02/maemoorg-wiki-progress.html maemo.org wiki recently. I have removed lots of unused images and started to categorize and add more links to the remaining images. I have had to do quite a bit of spam policing, with the help of Dave Neary and Jack Tanner, but this has largely been kept under control. Annoymous page creation has been disabled, to see if this prevents the huge spam increase in the last couple of months. This should also get easier with the addition of reCAPTCHA to the wiki.

As for new content, there has not been a significant amount, just lots of refinement of existing articles, such as Orrery and a consolidation of the firmware update troubleshooting information.

12 0 ]]> David King <davidk@openismus.com> feed:5fd851f08b73df75a25ea2936a7ea5a3 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:26:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-e7e795f6352311e0a9942503ce963a9d3a9d http://amigadave.blogspot.com/2010/11/maemoorg-wiki-progress.html maemo.org wiki at the moment is preenv, a compatibility shim that makes it possible to play some WebOS games on the N900. Join in and update the game compatibility table!

I have been trying to reduce the number of dead-end pages, those with no links to other pages on the wiki, although this is slow work. You can join the wiki gardeners to help with the process.

8 0 ]]> David King <davidk@openismus.com> feed:5fd851f08b73df75a25ea2936a7ea5a3 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:21:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-733d49ccecd911dfaeae35b01c94a79ea79e http://amigadave.blogspot.com/2010/09/maemoorg-bugzilla-update.html his post on the subject, Bugzilla 3.4 is coming to bugs.maemo.org! It has taken some time, but regressions from the current 2.22 code have been fixed (hopefully) and it is now time for public testing. There is a test instance of the new code, with a dump of the bugs.maemo.org database from mid-August and mail sending disabled. All interested users should test for regressions and report them as bugs. Screenshots showing layout issues are welcome, as in bug 11330, for example.

The source code for maemo.org Bugzilla is availabe on Garage in a Subversion repository, so patches are very welcome.

10 0 ]]> David King <davidk@openismus.com> feed:5fd851f08b73df75a25ea2936a7ea5a3 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:24:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-9d802180ca1c11df8104f77c642377da77da http://amigadave.blogspot.com/2010/08/maemoorg-wiki-progress.html maemo.org wiki as always (except for GUADEC when I was not editing, although many other people were). I have been mostly doing tidying of the Documentation articles, which involves making the code examples human-readable (not an autogenerated mess of HTML formatting), adding markup and fixing broken links. There is still a lot to do, but progress is good.

Elsewhere in the wiki there have been many changes to pages regarding the N900 hardware subsystems, so look out for more in this area from Joerg rw and Speedevil.

11 0 ]]> David King <davidk@openismus.com> feed:5fd851f08b73df75a25ea2936a7ea5a3 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:07:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-b44ad428a3bb11dfbd5f4394893aa5d8a5d8 http://amigadave.blogspot.com/2010/07/maemoorg-wiki-progress.html maemo.org wiki recently. Over the last few weeks I have merged information from the documentation hierarchy into the developer guide, cutting lots of duplicate content. I added redirects so that people following links from external sites will not see blank pages. There has also been plenty of the usual tidying, including adding links and reformatting to make the wiki a nicer place.

Also of note is the large contribution from Magick777, who has been making some great edits to add information regarding migration from an S60 device and lots more.

8 0 ]]> David King <davidk@openismus.com> feed:5fd851f08b73df75a25ea2936a7ea5a3 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:43:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1524f2ee931111dfad6fb74af36ba188a188 http://amigadave.blogspot.com/2010/05/autotools-for-beginners.html Murray wrote some autotools tutorials a long time ago, which got refreshed a couple of times, but were starting to show their age (‘Wow, look at this new pkg-config thing!’). I updated them over the course of a few days, and Daniel checked that everything was as it should be. The example projects are now hosted on Gitorious for easy browsing. Lots of old and deprecated macros were removed, and it was possible to condense the information down to something that should hopefully be less scary for the beginner. There are three tutorials:

1. Using automake and autoconf with C++ (example project)
2. Building C/C++ libraries with automake and autoconf (example project)
3. Using C/C++ libraries with automake and autoconf (example project)

All comments are welcome, as are merge requests for the Gitorious projects.

12 1 ]]> David King <davidk@openismus.com> feed:5fd851f08b73df75a25ea2936a7ea5a3 Mon, 17 May 2010 17:26:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-d38cece661ca11df83da7f971608d80cd80c http://amigadave.blogspot.com/2010/05/maemoorg-wiki-tips.html maemo.org wiki has lots of useful information, and lots more is being added each day. You can help to improve it! There is an article on the Maemowiki action group, where efforts to improve the wiki are coordinated. There are some simple things that you might want to do:

• add categories to articles
• create new categories where appropriate
• add links to other pages, especially orphaned pages
• add templates, and then add them to pages

The wiki is a pretty standard MediaWiki installation, so formatting information is best found at the MediaWiki formatting help page if you get stuck.

Happy editing!

5 0 ]]> David King <davidk@openismus.com> feed:5fd851f08b73df75a25ea2936a7ea5a3 Tue, 04 May 2010 14:15:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-14f47bf458e811dfbec6f164df1f26f026f0 http://amigadave.blogspot.com/2010/02/fosdem-2010.html FOSDEM this year, and it was pretty fun. I got to chat to people about Maemo (although there were not many Maemo-specific talks), and managed to have a good meeting with Dave Neary about my work on maemo.org developer documentation. It was good to see Zeeshan again, and staying in the same hotel as Lennart meant that I got to steal his guidebook pick his brain about good places to eat.

The GNOME Color Manager talk was fun, although nothing particularly new. Hopefully some cross-desktop participation can help that. Greg Kroah-Hartman's talk on writing a kernel patch was interesting, and might finally encourage me to fix my sound card driver (incorrectly-mapped output controls). I went to my first keysigning party, which was weird but fun. Michael Meeks' bootchart2 talk was excellent, and funny of course. Probably the best thing of the conference was the GNOME tshirts, with a GNOME coat of arm and monkeys. Hopefully I get the chance to go to FOSDEM again next year.

11 1 ]]> David King <davidk@openismus.com> feed:5fd851f08b73df75a25ea2936a7ea5a3 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:42:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-e4cd619a173611dfa041419652a6f853f853 http://amigadave.blogspot.com/2010/02/going-to-fosdem.html

I will be attending FOSDEM this weekend as part of my work on maemo.org developer documentation. Come and talk to me about Maemo, developer documentation, wiki.maemo.org or even Maemomm. I will also be going to the keysigning event, so come along with some photo ID to get yourself into the web of trust.

12 1 ]]> David King <davidk@openismus.com> feed:5fd851f08b73df75a25ea2936a7ea5a3 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:39:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-ea01da44102c11df99a6c95a0e1422062206