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I started out the week trying to make a screen cast using recordMyDesktop and Lombard but was having a terrible time getting the video to export. Since I had clips of varying sizes I worked on a program that I could use to scale all the videos to the same dimensions thinking that might help. Unfortunately, even when the clips had the same width/height I wasn’t getting the output I expected. I’ve since filed a bug and set off to read the Lombard source code.

It’s been slow going but with the help of the GStreamer Application Development Manual, GStreamer docs, Valadoc, and a random gnonlin tutorial things are coming together bit by bit.

The weather is great in Texas right now, btw. Best get outside now before you are driven back indoors by the fiery torment that is Texas summer.

have a great week!

hi internet

I’m typing this on my not-so-new Eee PC netbook running the new-to-me Trisquel GNU/Linux. For a libre OS it does a pretty bang-up job of just working (wireless internet, webcam and sound, oh my!). Bonus surprise: I plugged the usb microphone from rockband into the computer and Gnome immediately recognized it and allowed me to record audio with it!

I’ve been reading about the Vala programming language lately. I was kicking around the new Gnome Developer Center for some reason and liked the tutorial apps written in it. Vala reminds me of Objective C and Foundation classes. I was able to hack together a little binary clock app with relative ease: https://github.com/belovachap/binary_clock

I need to read these GStreamer tutorials, they look interesting.

I was trying out screen capture software in Gnome and needed a video editor and found Lombard by yorba.org. It’s written in Vala and compiles with very little fuss and actually seems to work. Now it’s definitely got bugs but how cool is it to have readable source code for an entire video editor?

I pushed some of the javascript game I was writing on my laptop to github: https://github.com/belovachap/sub-boom

It’s still in a pretty rough state but you can move the “destroyer” around with the arrow keys and drop “depth charges” by holding down the space bar and then releasing it after a desired length of time. The timing is kind of terrible at the moment…the submarines always win.

have a great week!

It’s been in the works for a while now, but I am happy to report that Backronym is finally out on the app store! Thirty-eight downloads to date and at least a few good acronyms generated (sent from Robin earlier today while waiting for breakfast @ El Chilito: TACO is TASTY ATTRACTIONS CERTAINLY OUTLAST). There’s been some good feedback so a 1.1 version will likely be in the works soon.

I’ve started working on a Core Wars project. I found a sort-of-functioning Python implementation of a MARS out on the net and have started poking at it on bitbucket. I’d like to write a graphical interface for it using wxPython and I’m thinking about getting a Python/Django site together for tournaments.