Wow it’s been a busy few days getting the Fyne project up and running. It’s been well received by a large number of people already – gaining more people on our chat channel in 1 week than the Edi IDE project gained in almost 2 years! To mark the occasion of 10 days I added a blog post (and blog page 🙂 ) to the … Continue reading The First 10 Days of Fyne
What follows is an email I sent to the Enligthenment Developer list today. For some time I have wondered if the project has lost it’s way and I finally decided it’s time to make a move – and announce my new project at http://fyne.io! I know there are others who are thinking about what the future might hold in desktop software – if you want … Continue reading A different direction for a brighter future
It’s cold outside and we need warming up – so I started work on updating the flame module. Flame is the second Enlightenment 0.17 modules that I have brought back to life. It should find a proper home in due course but for now you can build it by downloading directly from the Enlightenment git server. Happy holidays everyone! Continue reading Desktop ablaze
Yup it’s winter time and the temperature is dropping – but no snow outside. So I decided to let it snow indoors instead :). The Snow module is the first of a series of Enlightenment 0.17 modules that I am bringing back to life. It should find a proper home in due course but for now you can build it by downloading directly from the Enlightenment … Continue reading Snowing like it’s E17
If technology is the future and computers are ubiquitous then software must be the building blocks of our society. Don’t we owe it to ourselves and to each other to make that freely available to everyone? Continue reading Free software for all
The open source movement is quite something – people spending their own precious spare time to make the world a better place. Software that is everywhere and quite literally runs the web has it’s source code freely available to be examined, modified and learned from (even duplicated or repackaged!). In an environment where it’s people’s spare time alone, building a team to cover usability, design and … Continue reading Can you crowd fund open source software?
OK, so maybe more code related but hey. Rectang.com just opened it’s new open source project framework based on the Trac system. The framework provides SVN for version control, Wiki for project documentation and a ticketing system that integrates with the wiki and the svn commit messages. If you are remotely interested you can check out the projects using it at dev.rectang.com. Continue reading dev.rectang.com
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