Older blog entries for Mmarquee (starting at number 42)

Life

In case I dont have enough stree I'm moving house in a month.
Oh, and I think I'm in love (again)

Life

Well, I'm back from Egypt, and really miserable about being back to soggy London.
Just sitting here watch the junkies shootup at the back of my work is making me quite ill.

Hacking

Started working on the 'write' part of the pjbvfs. This is quite tricky and I can see why people have avoided coding this part of other methods.
At the moment all it does is create a zero byte length file, crash and screw up the allocation table on the pjb! Not what I was looking for obviously!

Hacking

Yet more hacking in the pjbvfs! Have managed to stabilise and tidy up all the code, and am going to release the 0.02 version of the method, and announce to the world in general

• What the method can do ...
  • View the contents of the pjb
  • Copy files from the pjb
  • Rename files
  • Delete files
  • Create directories (set / album)
• What the method cannot do ...
  • Write files to the pjb ;-(
• What you will need ..
  • pjb-100
  • pjbsdk from CVS from openpjb project.
  • pjbvfs from CVS from pjbapplet project.
  • Gnome 2 desktop

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Life

We lost the FA Cup - nuts.
Off to Egypt in a week, I hope its still there!

Hacking

Yet more hacking in the pjbvfs, now able to copy off contents, create and delete directories.
Next on the list are deleting tracks and uploading tracks to the device.

Hacking

Finally got the read to work off of the pjb in pjbvfs, so you can now read files on a pjb in Nautilus - which means you can play the tracks, copy them off.
Would be nice to be able to copy ON to the device, but I'm resting on my laurels tonite!

Hacking

Thrown all that code away as it was pants. Have started from basically scratch with a properly working pjbvfs method. From inside Nautilus yoy can now get a full directory listing, and some details of the contents - file size, mime-type, etc. You can nearly 'hover' over a file and get it to play as well, I've written the basic code, its a little rubbish (its is late), its a matter of 'plugging' into the vfs method properly.
Once this is all done I will need to revisit the RB stuff, and get it working properly.

Work
Slowing done nicely
Life
Went to see Mull Historical Society and The Inspiral Carpets last week. Indie-sadoe in full effect. Great fun though.
Hacking
Carried on with changes necessary to get a pjb view in rhythmbox, and it actually sort of works. No Internet access from home, so I'm quite into this at the moment. Not sure what to do when its finished.
I will need to release the pjbvfs module properly, and then see if the RB crew are stil around and taking patches!

Been hacking around a bit now, and have some results, its not a total success, mainly as the pjbvfs is not in anyway finished. Might have to directly use the api (quite naughty) for now.

Wanna help?
Where were you?

Work
Dont ask!
Life
Went to Brighton yesterday for the day with my mate Debs, it was great. It rained loads and I went in the sea - boy it was cold.
Hacking
Errm, not a lot really. Have just this morning started on a 'pjb' view for rhythmbox. This is because I have started to work again on the pjbvfs module for gnome-vfs, and I cam feeling inspired.