In an effort to put the evil lack-of-job related stress out of my mind, I coded for 17 hours straight today. I feel kinda fulfilled now, although I'm currently having trouble seeing. I got two complete apps written and a lot of hacking done on my long term projects. Here's what I ended up with:
scrot
scrot (SCReen
shOT) is a commandline screen capture utility which uses
imlib2. I wrote it from scratch as a handy alternative to
ImageMagick's import command. It has the benefit of imlib2's
dynamic image saver modules, meaning I support lots of image
formats without much work. Plus I like the name ;-)
camE
camE (continuing
the funky naming tradition) is a v4l webcam grabber, using
(can you guess?) imlib2. This means you can label your cam
image using antialiased truetype fonts and blend them onto
the image with transparency if you like. Lots of other
features, like ftp or scp uploading and the ability to run
as a daemon forever (no X connection needed). It's pretty
fun and you can see the results on my webcam page.
Geist
Geist now has
font styles (antialiased truetype fonts with shadows,
outlines, blurs etc), a font style editor, a selection
rectangle, half-written polygon code, a faster wordwrapping
algorithim, and a slightly more optimised renderer.
Feh
Feh got some long
needed luvvin' and I fixed a coupla little buglets that had
been around for a while.
e17
Got some work done on more of the backend libs we will need
for Enlightenment's DR17 release. As some of you may know,
this is a complete rewrite (see DR16's codebase for hints
why ;-)) and so there is a lot to do. But using imlib2, evas
and some of the other abstraction layers we are currently
working on, e17 will be a wonderful thing. In maybe 2 years
time ;-)
Anyway, I feel better for that. I put up snapshots of most of this stuff on my site, even some rpms (will make debs tomorrow) for people to check out. Now we have finally made a stable imlib2 release, I thought I may as well get some example apps out there for people to toy with.
Python
Yesterday I took a look at Python. I have to say, I
kinda liked it. The OO stuff is quite nicely implemented,
and no matter how much source code I read, it always seems
unusually readable... Now that's a nice feature. Plus the
XML and ODBC modules are really, really nice to use. I might
play
some more.
WAP
Continuing my experimental mood, I also wrote a WAP/WML
interface to my website. You can view it
at http://linuxbrit.co.uk/wap/ if you have one of those
fancy
phones. I don't actually have such a phone, so I have no
idea if my WML is clean, or even renders, but it looks good
from here. The big plus is that I set it up to automatically
generate from the meta language I write my site in, so it's
no extra work to maintain. Super ;-)
At some point soon I'll start freaking out about the job thing, but today for the first time I appreciated the extra time I had for Open Source. Just wish I could keep a roof over my head and continue coding :-) I guess we all do though?
As my eyesight blurs and fades, I think I'll head off to bed.