Tag: Personal Thoughts

  • Images for Bongo 0.6.0

    I have been working on the images in the Suse Studio environment as I mentioned in my blog post  here. I started the investigations to find that our RPM repository was in need of a bit of work. I wanted to create a new repository in my own name that would allow me to build…

  • HTC Hero owner

    Over the weekend I was able to have my mobile contract changed and part of the deal is that I get an HTC Hero. This has made me quite happy as I have been forced to run windows mobile on my old phone for far to long and it is refreshing that I have an…

  • Results of the OS poll

    You will be able to see from the poll archive that the following OS versions seem to be more popular Ubutnu 9.04 (53.0%, 19 Votes) Debian 5 (39.0%, 14 Votes) CENTOS 5 (28.0%, 10 Votes) openSuse 11.1 (22.0%, 8 Votes) Fedora 11 (19.0%, 7 Votes) I will now start to work on the packages for…

  • Packaging Adventure

    I am about to embark on the epic journey which is Bongo packaging on the OpenSUSE Build Service. Now that I have succumbed to this task I wanted to establish a few things. In the Build service there are many many distributions available for build. Most of the distributions are very old. This leaves me…

  • Bongo 0.5.2 Package Released on rPath

    The new Bongo package has been compiled, packaged and promoted so it should now be available to those running the images. This version has a number of fixes that were highlighted by the change to the cmake compiler. Thanks to the hard work of Alex and Patrick we are now in a position to say…

  • Mono Goings On

    I too have been watching the Mono debate with some interest as I am in the process of creating a Mono API for the Bongo Store. This interests me as I do not want to spend time working on something that will stop any distribution from running such a great app like Bongo. What worries…

  • Bongo Images and the 0.5 release

    Bongo Images and the 0.5 release I have been working on the images for the 0.5 release of Bongo and I have now completed them. They can be found here http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/bongo/latestRelease There is a change however in how we will be implementing the images from now on. I have decided that to make it easier…

  • Eiffel Tower

    Eiffel Tower Originally uploaded by lhaig This is a photo I took in Paris. I only wish I had had a 300 mm lens it would have been much nicer

  • Cara’s Feet

    Cara’s Feet Cara is so cute

  • Update on the Bongo API

    Quite some time ago I blogged about my efforts to create a mono API for the bongo store protocol, I have unfortunately been quite busy with my personal life and also at work so this has been neglected. I have again been working on this and at the moment I am stuck trying to get…