Back home

So I haven’t written a blog post in a while.  The reason has been that, after the mad dash to get the widgets branch merged into trunk, I took a vacation for about 2 weeks.  I had been working like crazy trying to get the widgets working and I definitely needed a break.  I started working again this week in the wonderful new era of widgets.  It looks like folks had gotten up to speed with the new code while I was away and gotten some good work in as well.

I started out working on getting the add channel buttons to work with miro guide again.  I though this was going to be a relatively easy bugfix, but I quickly realized that it there was a ton of extra code that went with it.  In addition to subscribing to channels, I implemented downloading videos from channel guides and subscribing to new channel guides.  Of course, that also meant that I had to implement displaying external guides too.

Once I got done with that I fixed a bug that had been annoying me for a while.  When I deleted a channel folder miro would crash every time.  Also I fixed building the windows installer.

Finally I implemented video playback on linux. It wasn’t too hard since Luc had done the portable work.  I went to implement it on windows then my VMWare image crashed..  Bummer.  I guess I’ll try to get that working next week.

Overall I’m pretty excited about the state of trunk.  Now that you can subscribe to feeds and play them back, it seems like miro is a real application again.  Of course there’s lots more work to do, but we’re almost at a state where I can use miro for myself again without feeling like I’m jumping through a ton of hoops.