I’ve become addicted to two things on the intertron recently: the Cook (almost) Anything at Least Once Blog and The Guardian’s gallery of photos from the last 24 hours. Sadly there doesn’t appear to be a general link but there is a link on the front page for each day. There was one photo that really caught my attention today: Ouch. Update: See comments for the link that I failed to find.

With sooper-dooper thanks to Samuel, Richard, Matthew and the space ape we now have Poky and Clutter up and running on the Logic i.MX31 LITEKIT. This ARM11 based development board features OpenGL ES 1.1 compliant hardware (based on Imagination’s MBX) which is now supported by Clutter’s EGL backend. Now we just need some more cool hardware to play with…
Space ape admires the bling

I'm pleased to announce that Tasks 0.12 is now available from the Pimlico Project. Hot new feature is undo/redo support, which lets you undo any change to the tasks. If an action is found which cannot be undone and then redone, please file a bug.

• Add undo/redo support (#312, #508, #510)
• Disable actions which require a selected task when no task is selected
• Port OpenMoko UI to the New World Order (Rob Bradford)
• Add a 24x24 icon (#475)

Towards the end of last week I knocked up very quickly a port of Tasks to follow the OpenMoko UI guidelines. The fact that this only took a few hours is testmant to Ross’s skill at structuring the Tasks codebase. It should now be available in the default build but I was alas too late to get it into the snapshot on the 19th however you can certainly get it in newer builds. Thanks to Neil for sorting out the screenshot.
Tasks in OpenMoko bling

Feel the Transport Chaos.

If you have 20 10 or more Bugzilla points and are at GUADEC please come and find me. I have a prize for you. Please spread the word, not everyone is online. Update: All gone! Wear your badges with pride. You guys all deserve it!

Collabora and OpenedHand are pleased to sponsor a party this evening at the Walkabout bar on Broad Street from 8pm. Please come along to today’s closing keynote for more details. To get there walk through the Paradise Forum next to the Conservatoire in the direction of Brindley Place and then along Broad Street to the left. Check out this map. Anyone who looks under the age of 25 will be required to prove they are over the age of 18.

The GUADEC USB keyrings have arrived. You can come and fetch them at the T-shirt/bag area. Please have you badge insert ready for marking.

The Foundation AGM will take place at 5pm in the ABH.

We interrupt this transmission to provide this valuable news flash: I’ve just sent emails to everyone who is on my list of speakers for GUADEC asking them to complete their details. If you are expecting to talk at GUADEC and don’t get an email asking you to provide your details then please email Ross and CC me in. We now return to our scheduled broadcast…

You know you are up late when you hear Sailing By on the radio. I’ve just made a new release of Dates, including a build for the 770. If you want to try this out then you need to add the OpenedHand repository to your application catalogue:

Web address: http://maemo.o-hand.com/packages
Distribution: gregale/
Components:

Note that these are built for the latest release of OS2006 (gregale/2.2). They may work on earlier OS2006 releases. Here is the obligatory screenshot.
Dates on the Nokia 770. Just a subtle hint.

Tasks 0.5 is now released. This release has features a port to OpenMoko and several bug fixes.

• Add an OpenMoko frontend (Rob Bradford)
• New icons from Andreas Nilsson to match the Pimlico style
• Use a SexyIconEntry for the URL entries if available (Diego Escalante Urrelo, #241)
• Fix layout of widgets in the task editor (Diego Escalante Urrelo, #236)
• Chain up focus events in the new task label fixing warnings and IM
• Add some padding around the editor dialog (#323)
• Improve messages for translation
• Translate the menu bar
• Fix license to refer to Tasks not Sound Juicer
• Remove Application from the desktop file

More information, screeenshots, and tarballs can be downloaded from the Pimlico site. There are no packages yet, but I hope to have those online shortly.

On Ross’s blog he talks about “a project [that] is even more interesting for the geeks out there”. I’m pleased to disclose that said project is OProfileUI a graphical user interface for the OProfile system profiler. Hopefully this should help the amazing performance wizards do their thing. I also hope that this will lower the barrier to entry, profiling and performance improvements are often seen as a bit of a black art but it can be a good way for new contributors to explore the stack. This was my first project at OpenedHand and so i’m really pleased to see it released and available for other people to try (and improve.) Oh and it has a cool icon (thanks Andreas.)
Go on, grab it!.

(Rapidly followed by 0.4.1) I’m very pleased to announce that Dates 0.4 has been released to the world, this release includes support for multiple local and remote calendars (including read-only access to Google Calendar.) It is available in three stunning flavours all guaranteed to be buzzing with energy but 100% fat free. N800 owners can use the Application Manager to install dates by using this install link. Packages for Debian/Ubuntu are being built now. Hopefully we should be able to get packages built for the Nokia 770 soon. Dates also has a cool new icon, courtesy of Andreas Nilsson. Andreas has also designed icons for the other components of, as well as the website for, the Pimlico Project which launches today. Pimlico is the umbrella project for all the OpenedHand PIM applications; Dates, Contacts, Tasks and Sync.
The funky new Dates icon.

We will be making a release of Dates soon and so are on the look out for more translations. To submit a translation please file a bug on the OpenedHand Bugzilla against the Dates product. The latest code can be found in trunk.

I’ve been spending some time working on Dates recently. One of the new features currently available in trunk is support for creating a new calendar, including using a remote source for said calendar. The screenshot below shows two local calendars (green and blue) and two remote (orange and red): the GNOME 2.17/2.18 schedule and my own calendar from Google Calendar.

<bilboed> davyd, I so definitely want that translation app on the n800 Warum nicht? No code yet since I need to discuss a few changes with Davyd first to see if we can keep it all in the same code tree. But if you are genuinely interested in this you should let me know. Screenshot taken courtesy of Tuomas Kulve’s maemo-screen-grabber.

Whenever there is a light dusting of snow the UK’s transport system goes into total meltdown (pun intended). But in order to maintain British standards of fair play the same thing happens when it is too hot, too wet, too windy and autumn.

Now that I have my desk sorted in my new flat i’ve begun to use my wireless mouse again. I was pleasantly surprised to see that gnome-power-manager (through HAL) gave me battery statistics on my mouse. Cute. So in the next major release I expect it to warn me when *my* energy levels are running low and suggest I take in a caffeine fix.
GNOME power manager strikes again!

On Friday night I followed up on Matthew’s ITP and attended his and Daf’s party. This was the first time I had seen the OLPC prototypes and woah, they’re pretty small . Daf and I decided to make flapjack which went down really well. On Sunday^WSaturday Daniel, Rob (Kendrick) and Lesley came over to Cambridge and we went to the Free Press for lunch with Rob (McQueen) and Daf and two of my friends from college. That was followed by more flapjack and very tasty coffee at the Collabora office. At popular request (ONE!) the recipe for my flapjack is: Melt 125g of butter with 150g of dark brown sugar and two tablespoons of oozy golden syrup over a low heat. Stir it. When melted add two teaspoons of ground ginger and remove from the heat. Add 200g of porridge oats (for a more crumbly less toffee flapjack use 250g). Stir in a handful raisins (or sultanas, or both). Dollop into a greased baking tin (use the wrapper from the butter) and bake for around 20 minutes at 180 C. Score whilst still warm to ensure that it can be broken.