Lets see now, on the 10th of June I moved into my new apartment and on the 26th of October I got my internet connection installed. Thats about four and a half month without an internet connection. About a month ago lightning struck and fried a few parts in my web server so I had to replace them, this caused the Windows 2003 installation to fail so I had to reinstall everything which took ages. Since I didn’t have an internet connection at home I decided against putting the server back in it’s original place until I could monitor it closely (and install everything properly since some parts had to be downloaded again). This led to some massive downtime for beaverblogg, crazybeavers.se, beaverpage and a few other sites of which most are restored now.
I’m currently worked up with school and some other (paid) projects but I also have lots of cool stuff coming up for CrazyBeaver Software. First of all I’ve setup my own Subversion server on which I will host most of my new projects making the source available to everyone! To start with I will be the only one who can make commits but that might change if someone shows a real interest in helping out. I’ve also setup Trac to help managing the larger projects (such as ImagerGallery.Net) by giving me a great platform for handling bug and feature requests. Hopefully I’ll have all this aswell as the new CrazyBeaver Software up and running before 1st December but since I don’t know how much I’ll need to do for school and my other projects. Keep watching this spot (maybe subscribe to my RSS feed?) for more info!
It’s been quiet around here lately. I moved to a new apartment a bit over a month ago now and won’t get an internet connection for at least another month it seems so things are going a bit slowly on the development front. I’ve managed to put together a few things though which might be of help to some.
First of all is a .Net library (and client) for working with DynDns services named DynDnsLib (and CrazyBeaversDnsUpdater for the client application) for people who want to add support for DynDns services to their applications. More information (and sourcecode via SVN) can be found at the link below.
http://beaverdnsupdater.devjavu.com/
Second up is an implementation of the Akismet (spam detecting service that WordPress and a few others use) API for .Net 2.0. It is a quite basic implementation that could be extended a bit more if someone wants to but it should be working fairly well as it is. More info (not much) and source at the link below.
http://akismetlib.devjavu.com/
None of these projects are in their final version, but both works fairly well at least. If anyone want to contribute to any of these projects then send me an email to karl.sjogren@gmail.com and tell me what you want to implement/change and I’ll consider giving you write access to the SVN repository.
When thinking about it, checking out source from an SVN repository might be a bit tricky unless you know what you are doing, maybe I should put together an article for that aswell some day if people seem to want it.
*NOTE*
If you came here looking for the ISAPI on Windows 2003 tutorial it has been moved to here due to a database crash.
The first ever stable release of Pidgin is out! For those who didn’t know, Pidgin is the new name of the great IM client Gaim. Everyone that has grown tired of all the extra stuff that comes with regular msn messenger, aol messenger or almost any other IM protocoll this is really worth trying. For more info on the new release you just have to head over to www.Pidgin.IM and have a look!
I’ve been using the Devjavu service for a while now and I think its great. You get a Subversion repository AND Trac hosted for FREE!
Wait now, its free, does that mean that there will be tons of ads and shit? Not this time. You get everything for free, you can use it for open source, commercial, academic and even personal projects! If you don’t want people to access your Trac and/or Subversion you can easily just turn it off in the admin panel! Take that SourceForge!
Anyway, Devjavu is still in beta but you can easily request to be part of the beta (really nice guys over there and it works perfectly well) and enjoy all the great things you get via Subversion and Trac. As said earlier I have to projects hosted there already and I can’t do anything but recommend this awsome service. Check it out!
Lots of interessting stuff happening lately, first Gaim changes names name to Pidgin and then Opera 9.2 was released! Apart from the usual bugfixes they introduce a new feature called SpeedDial which could best be described as favourite bookmarks that are shown when opening up a new blank page. They also introduced a quite neat developer toolbar (still not as nice as the firefox plugin but it’s a start). Both things are great additions to an already awsome browser so you really should check it out!
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2007/04/11/9-2-ready-for-the-world
For those who are not familiar with Gaim it’s a great open source instant messaging client. It supports several protocols suchs as MSN, ICQ/AIM, IRC and a few more.
Being a long time user of Gaim myself I’ve eagerly awaited the new version that was released as a first beta over a year ago and now have gone up to it’s sixth beta. There hasn’t been any official information about the slow development (long ago we had a new version each week and then it slowed down) until a few days ago. Apparently there have been some legal issues with the name “Gaim” since AOL have registered “AIM” as their trademark for their own IM client. After over a year of hassle around the name the developers reached a settlement with AOL that unfortunately require the project to change name (I really liked the name Gaim). The new name was decided by the developers to be Pidgin and they’ve also moved to a new server with their website, abandoning their SourceForge hosting for their website and source control and just keeping the download section there.
For those who want to know more there is a long message on the front page over at http://www.pidgin.im/, you can also download the latest version (Gaim 2.0 beta 6, still no new release with the new name). If you are tired of all the crap in Live Messenger or want a great client for Linux or Mac OSX I really suggest that you check Gaim, sorry, Pidgin out!
