Holiday on John Stowers

Back To Reality

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:48:45 +0000

Conduit 0.3.5: Enough Excuses

I am a terrible project maintainer. It has been a full 3 months since the last Conduit release, and I have run out of excuses. First I got distracted by online desktop shenanigans, then by Opensync and Ubuntu things . I got caught up in moving Conduit to GNOME SVN . Then I got distracted by JHBuild on windows . Finally I lost my nerve and went on holiday, not touching a computer for 3 weeks. Enough is enough!

Holiday Debrief

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:03:16 +0000

Well I have finally arrived in Canada, which signifies the end of my travels around Europe. Back in NZ in a week to start my PhD. Aside from the photos which I have been taking and irregularly uploading I have;

Bought a Nokia n800 (watch for a conduit port soon)
Played with an iPhone (its the little things, attention to detail of all transitions between operations)
Watched Transformers (not bad)
Read (1984, Fahrenheit 911, The God Delusion)

Misc Updates

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:34:36 +0000

Conduit

For all those that are interested I just released Conduit 0.3.1 , the second development release in the series. The release includes a heap of bug fixes and some interesting new features including;

Evolution Support (memos and tasks) using evolution-python
Ipod calendar and tasks support
Support SmugMug and Picasaweb

Goals for the next release include

Supporting box.net
Google notes support
100% test coverage of the core sync engine

The thing that keeps me interested in conduit is the speed at which we are progressing. Each new dataprovider added has a benefit proportional to the number of already included dataproviders; for instance adding evolution support opened up the ability to do tomboy notes <–> evolution memos, as well as evolution memos <–> ipod notes, etc.

Life Updates

Fri, 04 May 2007 07:59:40 +0000

So I thought I should spice up my blog with a post about non nerdy stuff. Currently I am travelling around Europe and will continue doing that until about June/July at which time I fly to Canada.

I was initially planning on doing a University exchange at the University of British Columbia but have since decided to take up a PhD at the University of Canterbury . I will (hopefully) be working on UAV stuff , likely machine vision related, in the Geospatial Research Centre at the university, beginning on the 1st of August. Travelling by car across Europe by car is so far been exceptionally awesome. Have me some cool characters and have certainly become a better driver. It has allowed us the freedom to go where we want, and when split three ways, has been just as economic as train travel.