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I'm a student at the Free University of Berlin. I enjoy hacking and messing about with LaTeX.
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The new version of Blam is out. The 1.8.8 will be the last of the 1.8 release branch. From now on, development will go towards the 2.0 release, which includes changing the way internal data is stored. The changes, as taken from its homepage are: Translation updates (thanks to the GNOME translation team) Show the [...]
This afternoon I uploaded the final tarballs for the 1.8.7 versions. You can get it from the usual location http://cmartin.tk/blam/ and there is information at http://cmartin.tk/blam.html. The Debian packages will be ready soon. These are the changelog highlights: Context menu on the tray icon. Support channel groups (1-deep (for now) folders). (Bug 166468) Move channels [...]
I have been on holidays for a few weeks and now I have enough free time that I can continue developing Blam. Today I integrated a patch that adds a context menu to the tray icon and finally implemented drag-and-drop. This means you can move channels into groups, between groups and out of groups by [...]
I have just released blam 1.8.6pre1 as anticipation to the real release. Debian users should have packages available later today and only need to download the .deb from http://cmartin.tk/blam/ and install it. There is also a debian archive at ‘deb http://cmartin.tk/debian/ sid main’ but it’s probably better not to use it as of yet. Update: [...]
I’ve been doing some spring cleaning on Blam’s bugs and I’m now down to 30 from about 36 or so I had before I started. This is partly due to some duplicate-marking but more importantly, I’ve actually implemented a bunch of fixes and/or enhancements. Blam needs a couple of new tranlations, but apart from that, [...]
After way too long, Blam 1.8.5 has been released. The package is already in http://cmartin.tk/blam/ and debian packages will be comig along shortly. Check out the new things in this release in http://cmartin.tk/blam.html
Due to time constraints, I’ve not been able to hack much on Blam. Therefore, I’ve decided to release a 1.8.5 version instead of going straight for the 2.0 goal. What is now in svn trunk is mostly what will be there. In addition to that, I’m going to try to create a library to deal [...]
I have commited to SVN the AtomFeed library for Blam. It works, but it uses an awful lot of memory. Please test. I hope to write an RSSFeed library, but RSS is a lot more complicated to write with XmlSerializer. In other news, I think I’m going deeper and deeper into the cave[0]. I need [...]
I have finally figured out how to tell System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer how to load from an arbitrary namespace. It’s not hard, it just lacks documentation on the Mono side of things. Searching USENET I found posts on .NET groups which directed me to the MSDN .NET page, and there it was, I just have to give my [...]
At the moment, Blam uses a library known as Atom.NET to parse Atom feeds. This is probably not a very big library by many standards, but it’s actually bigger than Blam at about 7k LOC and to top it off it doesn’t talk well with Atom 1.0 I thought there had to be a better [...]
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