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29 Jul 2003 (updated 29 Jul 2003 at 07:54 UTC) »
iRATE
softkid iRATE is in the hands of 2 linux guys. Neither of us own a mac or even have access to one. We've been trying to get an osx version out, but it's really hard to guide java newbies though the process.
There is 2 guis for irate right now. We have the original swing gui that appeared in irate 0.1. That one was succeded by a much lighter & faster swt gui. SWT and nanoxml + some code recrafting allowed us to switch to a completely free java platform.
So to make a 0.2 release for OSX we either need to updated the old swing gui with a few menu entries and provide an OSX installation package for it or have some java-savvy hacker help us out with packaging an swt version of irate for OSX.
In other words, help wanted for proper OSX support.
If nobody volunteers to do an osx release and I get some time off school I plan on borrowing an ibook from someone and getting irate going.

Excuse me if there are any grammar errors, but it's late and I can't sleep.

Ok, I'm certified now, but I still can't get myself listed as developer on irate. Guess I'm not sertified enough.

29 Jul 2003 (updated 29 Jul 2003 at 04:17 UTC) »
Why am I blogging?
Hi, I've decided to give into this blogging thing. I think this is the only way I'll ever let my programming ideas out of my head. Mailing lists just don't cut it for me.

iRATE
I have school to deal with, but when I need to relax I code. Lately iRATE has become my favourite project. It's just soo cool :)
So this past weekend I relazed by relief by doing non-coding irate work. Here is what I got done.

  • Typed up some of my thoughts on the new irate server stuff
  • Setup cvs commit emails
  • Got gcj people excited about using irate as one of the gcj/swt demonstration programs :)
  • Got gcj people excited about figuring out a serious perfomance problem with the irate server when run with gcj
  • Had email discussion with several people about getting them to deal with swt packages so irate doesn't have to bother with them. Candidate 1 and Candidate 2
  • Pondered about how my new server protocol should be more xmlish(ie more extendable) and less hackish. Any suggestions?
  • Spent many hours trying to get a mingw win32 crosscompiler to work so I could finally setup an autobuild(tinderbox) system that would produce windows installer and linux packages upon every email notification of a cvs commit.
  • Failed to get a working gcj crosscompiler :). Aparently Mohan from thisiscool.com is gonna work on producing scripts that can do that for me.

I think I need to be certified before I can setup myself as a developer on iRATE.

I can't wait to go back to my regular swt coding on irate. I don't generally like programming gui stuff, but iRATE is has such a simple UI that it keeps the gui code to a minimum.

I guess on the weekend I'll be adding the search box, rating popup menu and making a gcj servlet prototype to base the server on

People
Michael Crawford rocks. I thought I was going to go through the pain of promoting iRATE, but instead I just emailed him and he gladly took the opportunity to quadriple or maybe 2^ize the number of irate users. As a result I can concentrate on coding AND since there is more irate users, I get lots of cool heavy metal to listen to.

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