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I love it when a plan comes together

With some help from Daniel Jalkut, Dave Dribin, Chris Hanson, and of course Andy Matuschak’s Sparkle and Reinvented Software’s Feeder, I finally have a system for pushing Gusto updates that are tied to SVN revision numbers. Once it works, it works pretty good. I might run into some trouble in the future if I were to use a different tree than trunk, but that’ll be a good ways away.

I’m not too worried either because:
a) agvtool will let me set whatever version and marketingversion I want
b) Sparkle will let me explicitly name the next version

GSoC 2006 writeup

The conference went great. It was an “unconference” were people reserve rooms to talk about whatever they want. If other people are interested, they’ll show up. I gave a talk called Rewarding Contributors that was about the various project management tricks I’ve done to pay back people who volunteer on Ardour. Sixteen people showed up and the following discussion, mostly with the Drupal team was very rewarding. There was applause afterwards. It was great.

Google’s campus was large and showed signs of rapid growth. They had over 40 buildings, I think. Their security guys were just dudes who sat under umbrellas in lawnchairs at the entrance to the driveway.

I had a good conversation with a couple of the Subversion developers, who work at Google. Their Poisoness People talk was particularly entertaining.

The whole thing really got me excited to work on Ardour again.

Also, the hotel was pretty nice. It had this late 50s intellectual motif. Lots of Jackson Pollock style paintings and such.

Google Summer of Code conference!

I’m going to the Google Summer of Code conference this Saturday. I’m flying out to San Jose tomorrow morning.

I’m pretty excited. I’ll be leading a discussion of cheap, homegrown ways to reward contributors to open source projects.

Then, I’ll fly to LA to visit some friends. And since I’ve never been to California before, this is all new to me. Too bad I won’t have time to check out San Francisco. Oh well.

The Mother of All Dubbers

From Harrison’s marketing materials:

The recording software behind the X-Dubber is an open-source, highly scalable program called Ardour. The stable, full-featured Ardour workstation has the capabilities you would expect from a state of theart workstation. By focusing on the specific needs of thepost-production community, Harrison has packaged the Ardour workstationinto a robust, streamlined re-recording product that meets the needs ofour world-class customers.

Pretty awesome. Go Team Ardour.

Blogging from TextMate

This is being posted from the wonderful TextMate text editor. It’s like emacs, only without the lisp and MacOSX native. It’s very popular in the Ruby on Rails community. I even registered for it. I have a fairly short list of shareware I’ve deemed important enough to buy.

Flock

I’m posting this from the new Flock browser. It seems pretty cool. I’m not the biggest flickr user, but I appreciate the intergrated del.icio.us bookmarks. Still trying to get into that. The fonts aren’t as nice as the ones in Safari, but it’s usable.

I appreciate the built in clipboard at the bottom where you can drag in images and text for later use. Pretty cool!

It’ll be nice if they add support for Gallery2 in addition to Flickr and Photobucket. I mean, what about those of us who host our own photos?

fftw and intel iMacs

If you are trying to compile fftw3 on an intel iMac (or any Intel Core processor probably), you’ll need to pass to configure:

–with-gcc-arch=prescott

That will prevent compiler errors complaining about illegal i386 instructions.

Ardour's new website

Check out the new site for Ardour that we (mostly me) made. It uses the latest Drupal beta and it’s pretty rocking.