News and a Free PalmOS SDK

Well, people... I've been very busy lately, but with all these end-year-celebrations I could get a little time for hacking... unfortunately this time is ending today. The new year is arriving with a lot of work to do...

The news are that now I'm a system analyst that needs to work hard to earn some money.. Which means that I'm having just a little hack-time... but with the advances in our project, I hope this can be solved. :)

cascardo and I started a project some time ago... this is called FreePalm and aims to develop a libre PalmOS SDK (that will replace the proprietary SDK used today to develop m68k PalmOS applications) and also a libre PalmOS clone. The SDK is going well and I'm already able to compile some test-programs I made... I'll try to get them available at my site ASAP.

My other blog is in 'pt_BR'... I'm going to update this one, so that you can stay in touch with what I'm doing also in 'en'. That's it, for now!

My other blog

Well... These days I was playing with my new blog... actualy, my Brazilian blog... I'm using a cherrypy one made by kov with some modifications. I spent these days setting it up and implementing some XMLRPC so that I could post with gnome-blog. Now I'm testing it. When it finishes posting, it exists... and I'm seeing if this happens with advogato too... :] I forgot to mension... the link to my new blog is this

PHP and I: together again

Well... I was needing a simple mailing list manager in PHP for one of our sites... and I found something at Sourceforge called Postlister. It's not really a mailing list manager, but then I realised that we didn't need one at all... :] It served our purpose, which was sending messages to a group of people. It does this by using a web interface instead of sending a mail to the list.

The first thing I noted was that it just didn't work! I configured an username and password, but it just didn't stop asking me to login. Even in the subscribe and confirm pages. When I looked into the code, I found the problem. He was considering the server, post and get variables the old way (register_globals=on). After all the hard work of setting things like $PHP_SELF to $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], it worked quite well... and I really liked it... There are some missing features, like saving the list messages in an archive, but I want to do it soon... I have just sent a message to the project administrator and I'm waiting for a reply...

LPT on Linux

Yesterday I started playing with that LEDs in Linux... I made a small program that sends bytes to the parport... if you wanna take a look... It runs only as root, because there's a call to ioperm()... We want to make this program control something cool, like lights in a house... and we also want internet interface...