Older blog entries for tevaum (starting at number 8)

Ok... I'm sad! I discovered that in CVS, blam has already ATOM support... :[ but that's fine. At least, now I know how to parse XML files in C#. :] Some good news: the FreePalm (the project I mentioned in the 19 Aug post) project was approved in Gna! We need to create the arch repository to store the little SDK code we have and go on with the project. I think it will be cool! :]

I've been playing a little with C# and XmlTextReader this week, trying to parse atom feeds. Far from complete, my program extracts the title, link, id, updated and summary nodes from each entry in the atom structure. I'll try to make it extract the author's name 'til the weekend and then, maybe i'll put it into blam!

Some time ago, kov and I started to play with winpopup messages via samba. We intended to receive messages in linux from windows systems at our university. Unfortunately, my student life did't left me finish. But today, I needed to. We have some windows machines at work, and the only way to comunicate internally is via winpopups. I made some modifications in my part of the program that reads the message and formats it to send to the 'reader' via unix sockets. The reader is a gnome-panel applet that blinks in the tray when a message has arrived. As I'm not using GNOME there, I needed to adapt to my needs. I made it format the message and append to the mbox file, so that I could read it with Evolution. The code is a little ugly, but it worked quite well...

Well... after such a long time, I'm back... this week, Cascardo and I started up with a prototype of a Free PalmOS SDK. It's still in the beginning, but we're very excited with it... There's a mailing list on FreeList and we're about to register the project in Gna!. Today I'm posting using gnome-blog... and I think this is the esyest way for me to keep this blog up-to-date. At least, I hope so... see ya on the Free Software Highway!

Today I'm playing with HTML validation... I'll try to get my entire site into the W3C specifications... it's not a hard stuff, 'cause it's dynamic and modular... about the boot stuff, it worked, but it's not yet the way we want... I'll go on with this later... se ya!

30 Jan 2005 (updated 1 Feb 2005 at 13:20 UTC) »

Humm... some news... I made an rss aggregator, just like debian planet... it takes the last entries from my blog, kov's and cascardos' one and put them together into one page, with links to the other entries... the next step is to make an 'information' page, with the news that interests me... I'll get to the USB bootdisk as soon as I get the time... see ya!

28 Jan 2005 (updated 2 Sep 2005 at 20:49 UTC) »

Yesterday I was trying to learn how to play with RSS and PHP... aand I found a class that does the hard stuff and has a clean interface... it's MagpieRSS. Now, you can see this blog here too!

Right now Aldir and I are trying to make a USB bootdisk... we have some diskless workstations booting linux via clusterknoppix terminal server. The problem is: we're not root :(. That's why we wanna boot via USB hd... our problem (up to now) is that Debian kernel has support to these stuff as modules... so we need to play with the initrd to make it load usb_storage stuff so that we can mount the USB hd as the rootfs... let's work!

27 Jan 2005 (updated 28 Jan 2005 at 14:23 UTC) »

Well... I'm back, after a long, long time... I'll try to keep this blog up-to-date, but this is something I just can't promise... Well.. lately I've been playing with dynamic pages... PHP, to be precise. I hat to learn it because I had to improve the site of the university I work in... I thought I wouldn't like it, but when i get used to the language, I saw it was really cool... hehehe... now my site is totally dynamic! It's something zope-inspired, and I liked it even though it's not featurefull...

16 Jan 2004 (updated 27 Jan 2005 at 19:16 UTC) »

Yesterday, kov and I were trying to build the L4Linux 2.4 release to try it... The L4 is a ยต-kernel that provides basic funcionality like memory mapping, a fast IPC and so on. Some hackers ported the linux kernel to run in a deprivileged user-level using the features of L4... we tryed to test it, but the compilation stoped with an error and I went to my bed for a little rest :). Today (after finishing a gstreamer-player usage manual) we will try to fix the problem and go on.

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