Sikosis's BeOS/Haiku Developer Blog http://blog.sikosis.com/ Depot CMS Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:36:00 +1000 7th December, 2011 06:36 AM - Haiku: An Inside Look from Matt Nawrocki on Vimeo. RhapsodyGuru writes "I hope you all find this interesting and enjoyable to watch. The target audience for this production is geared towards those into Linux/BSD/et al, but are curious about Haiku and what it can do for them." Click here for the full story. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=119 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=119 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:47:00 +1000 9th November, 2011 06:47 AM - Oliver Tappe recently gave a tech talk at BeGeistert 024 about migrating Haiku's repository from SVN to Git. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=118 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=118 Sat, 03 Sep 2011 04:40:00 +1000 3rd September, 2011 04:40 AM - So, thanks to HDU 2011, I've been getting back into dabbling with Haiku C++ coding whenever I've been able to get a spare moment. In that spare time, I've managed to start work on a new project called HaikuSCP, an open source GUI front end to scp, with profiles and drag n drop file support. For awhile I've wanted to do a Dropbox client for Haiku, so I started to have a crack at it and kept getting strange cert errors; I then decided perhaps, I should try an easier web service first. I searched through a list of popular web services and soon sourced something relatively simple, bit.ly - the URL shortening service. With a couple of hours to nut out the libcurl functionality and a few more for the basic GUI, bitly was released to the public via Haikuware. These releases are the first versions, so when I get more downtime you can expect future updates. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=117 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=117 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 02:39:00 +1000 27th August, 2011 02:39 AM - It was a rather overcast day in Brisbane, Australia: Home of the Fourth Annual Haiku Down Under Virtual Conference for Haiku OS Users and Developers. It was virtual, in the respect, that the event was streamed live over the Internet once again using the uStream service. We accept (and regret) that this service requires Flash, but at present, we still haven't found any other services that are capable of delivering the same features. One of these days, we hope to use a Haiku friendly service. This year, HDU 2011 (#hdu2011) was hosted from one of the ITEE boardrooms at The University of Queensland where I, Phil Greenway (Sikosis) was joined once again by Mark Patterson (BeMark) and newcomer Daniel Devine. We kicked off the event at 10AM (GMT +10) instead of 9AM like previous years, to enable us plenty of time to get all the hardware setup for the event. It was raining outside, which was unusual for this time of year, still this had no impact on our event. This was a good thing, as we managed to start on time and everything was going smooth. We did have a couple of issues, but we trust that didn't deter from the rest of the event. Truth be told there were two hiccups during the event, one being when I was playing the Audio Interview with myself and Matt Madia. Unfortunately, uStream isn't very smart in the fact we were running a broadcast and they decided to play someone else's event stream in our browser. So, it took us a few minutes to figure out what was going on. The other issue was with netPanzer, more on that later. For those who missed the event, there is a recorded version hosted on uStream, so we encourage you to have a look. This year we didn't solicit for submissions, so the format was myself doing my usual coding session, BeMark was back again for some Qt stuff and thanks to the Haiku talk I did at LCA 2011 at the beginning of the year, I met Daniel Devine and he volunteered to help out. Actually, Daniel was a prize winner from HDU 2010, so good to see him step up from user to presenter in such a short space of time. I started off the event with a brief overview of what has happened in Haiku land over the past year, then I went into a coding session about Reading and Writing Files: The Haiku Way using the Storage Kit API. I also wrote some demos for BeMark to present on using Qt under Haiku doing reading and writing files as well; this was mainly so you could see the difference between the two approaches. Daniel Devine, who has a Linux background, gave a very cool talk about doing Python Web Development under Haiku. Some really great stuff here such as the django web framework and I was impressed to see that SickBeard ran under Haiku. As Daniel said, there's probably a lot of hidden gems out there that run under Haiku. To build on the mini-session from last year called Haiku in the Workplace, initially, I was planning to use Google+ Hangouts for an interactive discussion. When it came down to it, we decided to just rely on good ole IRC and went through various applications that Haiku would need to be able to be used in a work environment. I'll be putting more information up on the Haiku in the Workplace mini-site in due course, so stay tuned. Unfortunately, because we ran over time and the video flickering issues we had running netPanzer, we decided to scrap Face-Off II and head off to have lunch instead. It worked fine the night before the event, but not on the day. We're unsure if we'll run this again next year -- if anyone has any suggestions on what else we could run, please feel free to comment on the HDU 2011 Survey. This year’s prize winners were eNIGMa winning the Haiku® R1/Alpha 3 Commemorative CD and Omnimancer getting a copy of the Learning to Program with Haiku eBook by Jon Yoder aka DarkWyrm. These prizes were gladly sponsored by Daily Haiku and Haiku PC. Once again, we’ve made the slides available in HTML form, along with the code examples to download via the HDU Code Repository, or you can view them using web syntax highlighting. HDU will return next year on Sunday 10AM (GMT+10) 19th August, 2012 - once again hoping we can get the numbers (users, developers and viewers) involved up. We've setup a survey, so if you have some free time, please complete this. By doing this, it will enable us to tailor things for next year. It your chance to let us know what we’re doing right and/or wrong. The statistics for the live stream picked up this year with 53 live viewers (that's 30 more than last year). Though the website stats were down to only 695 pageviews for the month of August. That being said, we appreciate and thank you for your support; we look forward to seeing you and more at the next HDU. Reposted on the Official Haiku OS Web Site - http://bit.ly/hdu2011report http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=115 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=115 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +1000 18th August, 2011 12:00 AM - On this day in History: Back in 2001, the Haiku OS (then OpenBeOS) project was started. The project has come along way in the last 10 years with 3 Alpha releases, formation of Haiku Inc and many improvements when compared with BeOS R5, which was the last release by Be Inc. So, join me and others from around the globe as we celebrate all that is the Haiku. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=114 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=114 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:27:00 +1000 5th August, 2011 07:27 AM - Attention all Haiku fans, I've been working on the content for Haiku Down Under 2011 - the Australian Haiku Users and Developers Virtual Conference. We didn't put out a call for submissions this time as thankfully regular BeMark and newcomer Daniel Devine stepped up to present. Hashtag this year is #hdu2011. Be sure to also head on over to the netPanzer mini site as it has all the information and files you'll need to play in the Conference Tournament. It's going to be a busy couple of weeks preparing, so we hope you can all make it despite the fact the in order to "tune in", you'll need a Flash enabled computer or an iOS device. 16 Days to go ... http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=113 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=113 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:18:00 +1000 21st June, 2011 07:18 AM - The third release of the Haiku OS Alpha has been released to the public. It has been over a year since the last update and this version contains many fixes and improvements - 800 bugs closed and 250 more subtle ones discovered by the automated software quality analyiser, Coverity. Here's a short list of the updates:- Improved read (and write support) for various file systems, which includes btrfs, exFAT, ext2, ext3, ext4, NTFS, UDF, and others. Various enhancements for hardware support, such as IO-APIC, ACPI, video drivers, network drivers and USB. Gutenprint is utilized to provide additional printer support. MediaKit's support for decoding and encoding file formats has been improved. New IMAP implementation. Mails are now synchronized with the server and not just downloaded like in POP3. More applications now use Haiku's Layout API, making their GUI's more resilient to font changes and localization. Furthermore, the layout API has continued to progress towards being stable and public. However, this API is not finalized: it may change at any time, so developers beware.So, what are you waiting for ? Go grab a copy today. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=112 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=112 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:02:00 +1000 24th March, 2011 03:02 AM - The Google Summer (Winter in the Southern Hemisphere) of Code™ 2011 is on again and awesome news, the Haiku project is taking part for the 5th year in a row. Thanks to the participation of various individuals in the community, particularly our Google Summer of Code admin Matthew Madia and those who volunteered to become mentors, Haiku was selected as a one of the 175 mentoring organizations; out of the 417 organizations that applied. So, to honour that, I printed up Jorge Mare's flyer for the event and plastered it around the University of Queensland's IT and Electrical Engineering school, where I work. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=111 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=111 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:00:00 +1000 28th February, 2011 08:00 PM - Here is the day by day blog of the Linux Conference Australia 2011. Day One First, let me get this disclaimer out, I'm not a big Linux fan or user. I see it has it's place and I certainly use it (I have it running on my Sony UMPC at present), however, I'm not a rabid fan boy. That being said LCA is of course, very linux focused, but it's also Open Source focused and that's where I come in. Day Two Day 2 began with the highlight of the conference, the morning keynote by Vint Cerf, the Father of the Internet. He gave an excellent talk and he's a very smart, switched on man. Day Three As today is Australia Day, I'm not attending LCA2011, but instead having a BBQ and drinks with friends and celebrating the Top 20 DnB of 2010. Hope you all had fun, it was a bloody hot day. Day Four Day 4 was another hot one in Brisbane, but was kicked off with a great keynote from the creator of sendmail, Eric Allman. Very nice talk on why he did why he did and what he would have done. Very humbling. Day Five Today is the last day of LCA 2011. Whilst not the official last day, as there is an Open Day on tomorrow with stalls and such, in reality though - today is the last day. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=116 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=116 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:37:00 +1000 31st January, 2011 08:37 AM - "There is talk again on the haiku-dev mailing list about a possible Alpha3 release soon. Things we can expect to see in the upcoming release are some of the things that were worked on by Google Code In students, such as better support for more languages, a couple new screensavers, improved (optional) SDL libraries, etc." Excellent news as it's been awhile since the last alpha. I tend to use the nightlies instead, because there are more features and fixed with them. For more information, head on over to BeGroovy. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=110 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=110 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:00:00 +1000 28th January, 2011 08:00 PM - Today is the last day of LCA 2011. Whilst not the official last day, as there is an Open Day on tomorrow with stalls and such, in reality though - today is the last day. It also happens to be the day I deliver my talk on Haiku. Mark Pesce was the keynote speaker and he certainly caused controversy with his talk. Both confronting in his stance against Facebook and how we need a public Internet system, but also his use of explicit material, which violated the sexual harassment policy of the conference. I thought the images were over the top and bad taste, especially since we were told as speakers not to do anything that wasn't G-rated. But that's as far as I thought about it. We broke for Morning Tea and then I decided to head down to N block to see Paul Harvey's talk on Foswiki -- mainly, cos we chatted a fair bit at the Speakers Dinner and Foswiki looks interesting. Once, he'd finished, I then needed to rush off to the room I was presenting in, which thankfully was only down the corridor. Due to the main keynote going over time, all the other talks got pushed forward, so I waited another 5 minutes or so, before presenting in front of about 50-60 people plus whoever was on the live stream. Now let's get one thing straight. I was presenting at a Linux Conference with a MacBook Pro, a) because I was using Keynote, which is a superior presentation software and is only available on a Mac and b) I was running VMware Fusion virtual machine image of Haiku for maximum capability with the room's projector and access to the Internet via the MBP's wifi. So, I thought I would do the right thing and cover up the shiny white glowing Mac logo with a decal. I also happen to be a lego fan and as it shows evolution, something that Haiku certainly has definitely gone through; it all just fits. But that wasn't enough for some people:- "I'm a little disappointed that the talk on the Haiku OS isn't being given on a system running Haiku. #lca2011" - ctudball and "Haiku presentation done on a Mac at #lca2011. I was under the impression I was attending a #Linux conference. Clearly, I have been mislead." - slanteig Still, there were a few nice tweets by Mike Sampson (@mfsampson):- "Building Haiku on Linux looks fairly simple." and "Haiku uses vector icons!" As for the talk, things were going well until I got up to the demo, when I tried to copy two files from the same Virtual CD at the same time and one of the windows locked up and went white. I tried to kill it (twice) to no avail. I ended up just rebooting the VM and whilst it was doing that I explained what I was going to show and by that time it had rebooted. As my friend Jimmy Ti says, that just goes to show how resilient Haiku is -- and I guess he's right, but I just can't believe why these things work the night before when you're on your couch at home, but on the day in front of people it goes wrong. :( I was just getting to the Paladin coding section of my talk when the helpful volunteer staff member held up the "5 Mins" left sign -- I thought err, this demo is going to take at least 5 minutes, so I scrapped that and went straight to the hey scripting demo and only picked two of the several examples I had. The rest will go on my scripting page. At that point, the volunteer was holding up the "CUT" sign, so I quickly jumped to the conclusion slide and then powered through all of them until I finished. Then came question time, where the first question was about flash and then it was a bit of a blur for me, I was in a daze because I had all this material prepared thinking it wasn't going to be enough and it ended up being way too much. A bunch of people also came up to me at the end to say they would try it out or they were old BeOS fans and were sad the day it died; two of them said they then switched to Linux when BeOS went under. There were a couple of comments on that the UI looks a little dated as well. Haiku by Phil Greenway It was then time for lunch, so Paul Harvey (Foswiki guy) and I went down to Nandos and then we parted ways, as I went to see Sarah Sharp's "Growing food with Open Source" -- a talk I've been waiting to see all week and I wasn't alone in that. She talked about her experience leading up to the conference and then showed how she made an Arduino detect if a plant needed water via her home made water indicators and if it did need watering would turn on a water pump she had got out of a battery powered desktop fountain. Very cool and inspiring stuff. Marc Merlin did a talk on Misterhouse and X10, ZWave and a bunch of other home automated solutions, something I've been wanting to do for awhile and the prices aren't too bad at the moment. We broke for afternoon tea and when we came back it was Andrew Tridgell of Samba fame to show his Automated Coffee Roasting Machine. Amazing stuff as he showed us how he worked out how to write a linux driver for the USB multimeter, which was reading the temperature of the inside of the bread maker, which was full of coffee beans and had a heat gun pointing at it. It was then time for the lightning talks, where the most interesting one to me, was the mention of the first ever PHP Conference in Australia. They've just got a website - phpconf.au, a twitter account and the mention of an October in Sydney conference date. Once those talks were over, a slide was then put up about how much money had been raised for the QLD Floods Appeal - $28, 239. Awesome job. The closing theme was where to next -- of course, setting up the announcement of next year's conference in Ballarat, Victoria. To me, it was a decent conference. Not being a hardcore Linux guy, there wasn't everything there for me, but there were certainly parts of it that I really enjoyed and have been inspired by. The goal of my talk was if I got at least one person to look at Haiku then I've done my job ... and I think I did that. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=109 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=109 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:40:00 +1000 27th January, 2011 07:40 PM - Day 4 was another hot one in Brisbane, but was kicked off with a great keynote from the creator of sendmail, Eric Allman. Very nice talk on why he did why he did and what he would have done. Very humbling. After Morning Tea, I was very much looking forward to Rusty Russell's Advanced Coding C for Fun! talk ... even though at the Speaker's Dinner when he asked what I was talking about, I said "the Haiku Operating System" and he said "Oh you're that nutbag." (laugh) -- and boy, he's out there. That being said this was the first time I'd actually gotten to see some code and code demos, which was great and he went through building up from a couple of hundred to a think nearly a thousand lines of code by adding other libraries to tackle what he was doing, where he enabled code to be upgraded whilst still running and did some hairbrained "impossible" solution with even more lines of code to do it as well. I then walked from L to N block to see the man with the 3 coloured dyed hair, Stewart Smith, give his no holds barred talk on RDBMS, Apple for it's fsync, NoSQL, MongoDB and more. Earlier in the week I saw someone's tweet that there was a sushi place around Kelvin Grove campus. So, for lunch I went for a walk and happily found it, with it's nice portions of salmon nigiri *drools*. It was quite hot and I wasn't feeling the best, so I decided to head home and hop on the video streams from the conference, as I'd had no luck with them earlier in the week, I was pleasantly surprised when it did work. It was quite cool, as I was able to jump from room to room, without having to do all that walking :) I checked out a session on Perl Programming Best Practices, Jon Oxer's awesome Kinect project, where he's using his hands to control a Parrot (helicopter drone) and other things he's wired up around the house thanks to Arduinos; plus a little bit of Google's Go, which to me it's like solving a problem I don't have, but as my friend Jimmy Ti points out they made it for themselves and then released it to the world. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=108 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=108 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:00:00 +1000 26th January, 2011 09:00 AM - As today is Australia Day, I'm not attending LCA2011, but instead having a BBQ and drinks with friends and celebrating the Top 20 DnB of 2010. Hope you all had fun, it was a bloody hot day. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=107 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=107 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:32:00 +1000 25th January, 2011 11:32 PM - Day 2 began with the highlight of the conference, the morning keynote by Vint Cerf, the Father of the Internet. He gave an excellent talk and he's a very smart, switched on man. I stuck around for a few of the sysadmin sessions, especially the interesting talk about Carrot and Stick. Carrot doesn't work. The Stick does. Make the developers TALK to the Customers. It works! I also liked the Samba 4 talk, as we rely heavily on it at work. I then got up and walked down to L block and checked out the talk on MeeGo, which was as about as informative as the Wikipedia entry. I would have liked more from this talk. Still, Nokia treated us to a brown paper bag lunch, which wasn't too bad with Chicken sandwich, cookies, Snickers bar and apple. We were then going to learn about doing Android development using C++ and not that dirty four letter word *java*. Unfortunately, the bad news is you have to make your C++ app trick Android into thinking it's a Java app and you also have reduced functionality. In the long run, it didn't seem really worth it -- again I wish there was some code demos with this talk. Ryan Stuart then gave an impromptu talk on the mobile web app for LCA2011 that he wrote in 24 hours using Sencha. There was then a brief talk on Android Scripting, which looks interesting and I might have to look into it some more when this conference is over. I then saw John Williams give a talk on FGPAs, which was good, even though I had a little power nap for a couple of minutes during it; I blame the vending machines being out of stock. I then checked out Carol Smith, Google's coordinator of Google's Summer (Winter) of Code. At this point, it was time to head up to the shuttle bus to take us to the Speaker's Dinner at the Brisbane Convention Centre (Mezzanine), where we had drinks and nibbles in the lobby, before heading into Bongo Hero before having a nice meal.   At the speakers dinner I got to chat to a couple of people from the LCA community, including a rather cheerful chap who was taking photos and was doing a theme of "faces" and so snapped me when trying to make me laugh. His flickr photostream can be found here. I was then in a little pain and thought it's time to head home, so I decided to take a brief walk through the flood affected streets of South Bank, noticing the thin layer of mud that coats everything, but at least it will eventually wash away. I then snapped this nice picture of the Wheel of Brisbane. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=106 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=106 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:36:00 +1000 24th January, 2011 05:36 AM - First, let me get this disclaimer out, I'm not a big Linux fan or user. I see it has it's place and I certainly use it (I have it running on my Sony UMPC at present), however, I'm not a rabid fan boy. That being said LCA is of course, very linux focused, but it's also Open Source focused and that's where I come in. At this point, I'd also like to give big kudos to the many people working behind the scenes at LCA. Due to the Brisbane Floods, these guys and girls were able to get in 10 days everything they had done over the last 12 months. As far as I could tell, there weren't any hitches, apart from some odd issues with Linux laptops and the projectors. The day began with registration, which was pretty painless and then we received the free schwag including a Yubikey, which I was stoked about. Been after one of those devices for ages, but just hadn't got around to getting one. The first session I went to was on PiTiVi (video editing software), then "An Approach to Automatic Text Generation", which was a little disappointing as it was just showing off BOM's new forecasting system, which QLD doesn't get til next year. The next session was on "Practical Go", which I thought was going to be real world examples of using Google's Go language. Google had already come to UQ last year to do an overview of Go, so unfortunately, this talk was about the same. We then broke for lunch (which isn't included) and so we headed for the local shops that are on QUT's campus. Nandos! What's to think about -- so we headed there and I think so did everyone else :) After lunch was a great talk on "Avoiding Development Monoculture", which I enjoyed and then I went back to the Multimedia + Music room to see the session on Making Music on Linux. Jack is a pretty good tool for routing audio, but some of the other tools such as Rosegarden and Ardour, seem a little simple but "do the job". Afternoon tea was then served, complete with spring rolls and then it was time for "The State of PHP" talk. PHP 6 is dead -- long live PHP 5.4 or 6 or 7 or whatever it's going to be called. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=105 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=105 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:49:00 +1000 20th January, 2011 04:49 AM - Linux Conference Australia (or LCA for short) is due to kick off on Monday 22nd January, 2011 -- with myself, presenting a talk on Haiku, one week from today. It'll be a well rounded talk starting off with some history and then delving into what makes Haiku so good. Of course, I'll be talking about what's missing and what's being worked on. I've also got a demo planned where I will be doing some basic coding stuff (BButton launching a BAlert) and some hey scripting. I'll be posting on twitter under @sikosis using the hashtags of #HaikuOS and #lca2011 (for the conference). I've been advised the session is going to be recorded, so I'll post the link when it's available. This is the first time I've delivered a long talk (45 minutes) in front of large audience (100 to 300 people), so wish me luck. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=104 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=104 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 08:22:00 +1000 28th November, 2010 08:22 AM - Haiku is currently taking votes on what features should or should not be in the first release of Haiku OS. "This general interest poll, is to allow you -- yes you! -- the opportunity to effectively express your thoughts on which features should be present in Haiku R1 (Final). For R1, a balance must be attained between delaying the release and making Haiku R1 a well polished, impressive and feature rich release." Click here for the poll. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=103 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=103 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:50:00 +1000 21st September, 2010 12:50 PM - linux.conf.au (lca) is a conference about Open Source Software, including Linux. It brings together the world's community of Linux and open source enthusiasts who make considerable contributions to open source software. This is the second time lca has been held in Brisbane, with the first conference being hosted in Brisbane in 2002. But why is this significant to me ? Well, because Haiku will be there. Phil Greenway (Sikosis) will be presenting on Friday 28th January, 2011 at 11:30AM (just before lunch; a good spot I'm told). Click here to see the full event details. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=102 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=102 Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:22:00 +1000 29th August, 2010 12:22 PM - It was a fine, sunny morning in Brisbane, Australia: home of the Third Annual Haiku Down Under Virtual Conference for Haiku OS Users and Developers. Virtual in the respect that the event was streamed live over the Internet via the uStream service. We accept (and regret) that this service requires Flash, so you can’t use Haiku to view this event, you must use another OS like Windows, Mac or Linux. This year, HDU (short for Haiku Down Under; not slang for How Dare yoU) were able to book a conference venue at The University of Queensland with projector, white board and limited seating where myself, Sikosis was joined by BeMark and Mojodale. Unfortunately, the event started about 20 minutes late due to the conference room's network ports not being wired up in the switch cabinet. Thankfully, I'm an admin with keys at UQ, so I rushed around to get our broadcasting and monitoring machines online as soon as possible. If you haven't watched the recorded stream by now, you should, if you wish to get a feel for how things played out. Whilst, I was initially a little disappointed with the lack of submissions for this event; I believe in the end, the content that I produced and which was presented with the help of BeMark, will still be helpful to the community at large. In saying that, I'd like to give special thanks to BeMark for stepping up last minute to present the QT on Haiku session. As stated, it was a tutorial merely to prove it works; next year who knows we might have something more advanced. BeMark is actually a Pascal guru, perhaps next year we might be able to get him to run some FreePascal sessions instead. Just to follow up on a few things from the event, the Haiku in the Workplace site has been setup, though I still need to add all the content we discussed plus further developments in this section, Project Rhino is taking requests for its beta program and will be due to launch soon. If you have signed up for the beta program, you will receive an email at the end of the month and the netPanzer Face-Off mini-site has been reset for next year. This year’s prize winners were Daniel Devine (HDU 2010 T-Shirt) and Kokito and sand_man both winning the Learning to Program with Haiku eBook by Jon Yoder aka DarkWyrm. These prizes were gladly sponsored by Daily Haiku and Haiku PC. This year we’ve also made the slides available in HTML form, along with the code examples to download via the HDU Code Repository, or you can view them using web syntax highlighting. HDU will return next year on Sunday 9AM (GMT+10) 21st August, 2011 - we hope to see alot more developers wanting to get involved, along with more users and viewers. There is also a survey, which we would very much like you to complete. By doing this, it will enables us to tailor things for next year. Let us know what we’re doing right and/or wrong. The statistics for the live stream peaked at a total of 23 viewers. Over the course of the 3 hour broadcast, there was an average of 11 and 65 offline views of the 177 minutes (2 hours 57 minutes) recording. Also, the website garnered 2,112 hits for the month of August. Thanks for your support, we look forward to the next time HDU takes place. Most importantly, we look forward to seeing how much Haiku evolves over the coming year. Reposted on the Official Haiku OS Web Site - ShortURL: http://snipurl.com/hdu2010report http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=100 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=100 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:00:00 +1000 18th August, 2010 10:00 AM - On this day in History: Back in 2001, the Haiku OS (then OpenBeOS) project was started. The project has come along way in the last 9 years with 2 Alpha releases, formation of Haiku Inc and many improvements when compared with BeOS R5, which was the last release by Be Inc. So, join me and others from around the globe such as Haiku Japan, HaikuZone and IsComputerOn, as we celebrate the Haiku OS. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=99 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=99 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:02:00 +1000 5th August, 2010 09:02 AM - We've made a couple of changes over at Daily Haiku, in the last week or so. Most of these changes are to the backend, however, we've done some slight refactoring of the layout of the RSS feeds, as well as adding a few more. For those of you unfamiliar with Daily Haiku, this site aims to be your one stop place for Haiku news. Whether it's from the official site, from the various news sources or file sites, developer blogs; it's all here. So, if you feel you've been missed or if you have any other feedback, be sure to let us know. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=98 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=98 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:41:00 +1000 3rd August, 2010 09:41 AM - Just to let you know, I've been working on the content and event itself for Haiku Down Under 2010. A call for submissions was posted on the mailing list, as well as several emails to individuals, but so far -- nothing yet. I guess they're all shy ;) Anyway, we have the netPanzer mini site setup all good to go, with the information and files required. I've got the notes and code done for my Coding Session talk and half of the keynote speech done -- will have to work on the rest of that over the next week or so. I have another session, which is highlighting one of the projects I wrote called Rhino and another session I'm working on, but having issues with it at the moment; so unless those issues are resolved, that session may need to be dropped. 18 Days to go ... http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=97 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=97 Sat, 15 May 2010 12:14:00 +1000 15th May, 2010 12:14 PM - On the 9th May 2010, the Haiku Operating System R1 Alpha 2 was released. This release is a signifigant improvement on Alpha 1 and so far I have successfully installed it (minus a slight hiccup) on a Dell Optiplex 960 and on VirtualBox (OS X 10.6). So, check it out today! http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=96 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=96 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:00:00 +1000 25th January, 2010 03:00 AM - I know I've been pretty quiet on the Haiku front for awhile, but with Australia Day just around the corner, I'm back with my latest Haiku project I've been tinkering with ... HaikuNAS. The goal is to create a fully functional Haiku based NAS (Network Attached Storage) device, which can be used headless and operated remotely by a web interface. Like Haiku, this project is Alpha and is a little rough around the edges at the moment, but we're working on that. For more information, head on over to the site. http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=95 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=95 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:46:00 +1000 13th December, 2009 04:46 AM - http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?blog=94 http://blog.sikosis.com/index.php?rss=94