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St. Mary church in Twickenham

Low light photo taken with my N900

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The Original Meridian Line

Before Greenwich, this was the original meridian...cool

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Before Greenwich, this was the original meridian...cool

Parliament Hill

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Creperie in Hampstead

Sad for a missed tea at Chaiwalla (just discovered it has closed down), Samy seeks comfort in a warm crepe at La Creperie de Hampstead

Zandvoort aan Zee

9km long 100mt wide beach.

Testing...

Testing Maemo WordPy...weird name.
Will remove this post later....

Xournal for Fremantle

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Xournal alpha for Fremantle

Today I was thinking...that well it's better to play for Maemo than working :)

So I went ahead and, after a whole day fighting with bugs and
packaging, I am proud to say that finally Xournal is available for
Fremantle!!

It's only an alpha version (as you can see from the screenshot above) and probably it won't even start on your SDK, but it's the very first step on the right path.

You can find it in Fremantle extras-devel (the build cauldron just sent me the OK message)

Stay tuned for the next updates.

PS: a note for Diablo users, I think I found a bug that was preventing
Diablo version from functioning. I will try to re-compile it again
sometime soon.

Apples...

"Applications are also reviewed to try to prevent privacy issues, safeguard children from exposure to inappropriate content, and avoid applications that degrade the core experience of the iPhone."

Farting, thus, doesn't degrade the core experience of the iPhone and is appropriate content.

Nice.

Prot!

Xournal and Fremantle

Today I was thinking...that the community is amazing :)

In order to port Xournal to Fremantle I needed my old code. Unfortunately that was on my old desktop in Italy lying in the lab there. And that box was shut down (ready to be wiped out!).
I called my friends and told them to wait before wiping it out so that I could back up my stuff, but the machine is still off. I had to wait for people to come back from vacation before doing any serious work on the port.

Here comes the help from the community!
They read my comments on my previous post and managed to find someone who actually had a copy of the source code I uploaded to Diablo extras-devel!

That's great news, as now I can seriously start working on porting it to Fremantle :)

Thanks guys (qwerty12, X-Fade and stkeeps!)

Anidel

Xournal meets Fremantle

Today I was thinking...that it's time to start doing the port of Xournal for Fremantle.

As you can see from the screenshot I've almost started from scratch, but it shouldn't take long before I can release a working version of it.

Stay tuned.

Window cleaning

Window cleaning near Richmond station.

Coco-richmond

A fresh coconut in Richmond.

Isabella Plantation

Enjoying the very great weather in the Isabella plantation in the Richmond park

Nice weather...

This was the weather a few days ago here in Twickenham during one of our almost daily walks around the town.
This is the park in Marble Hill house.

Like the colors ? :)

Note: taken with my 5mp cellphone camera.

Bugatti

A nice Bugatti in Church Street in Twickenham.

I found it parked there on my way back from a walk along the river Thames.

Note: the picture was taken with the phone

DON'T PANIC

And don't forget your towel!

Tea

Perfect for breakfast!

No way!

I mean... Wow!

Maemo 5 Beta SDK up & running

Today I was thinking...that it's finally time to start working on porting Xournal to Maemo 5 and start implementing a few new features I had in mind lately.

I've just installed it and t works OK on my system (Dell Mini 9), but it's kinda... slow :(

I'll have to check if a better driver for its graphic card exists.

I'll keep posting here updates about the development.

The White Swan

 


Today I was thinking...that I should share with you the picture of this nice white swan...

Friends

There they are. Dan and Morena :)

Easter Monday

Me and Samy just had lunch at The White Swan by the river Thames in Twickenham with Dan and Morena.

English brunch

Enjoying a fantastic tea brunch at the Richmond Tea Box. Great cosy place in the backstreets of Richmond upon Thames.

London's blossoming

Portobello Road

Chinese new year's eve

On going preparation

Cah Chi

Cena al coreano. Buuono

Workplace

A sunny winter day in Chiswick.

Mists in London

Scary? :)

Spread the word

Yes. He's now married. Rafpis...

Spread the word...

SMS - Servizio Mobilità Sapienza

Today I was thinking...that sometimes is good to take a look at what boils inside your country.
A friend of mine pointed to me this interesting service provided by the University of Rome "La Sapienza".

It is a nice use of the Google Maps API that results in a quite useful service.

Living in London I wish I could find a similar service provided by the Tranport for London.
May be I should just go and suggest them :)

Second step: Berlin

At the Malpensa airport ready to board

Next step

Brothers :)

Travelling to the UK

First part of the trip from Salerno to London: Salerno - Piacenza.

maemo.org Community Council members are going to be elected!

In few days (September, 10th) we will finally know who will be the members of the maemo.org community council.

Please note the ".org", the council will help us (the community) make our voice be heard at Nokia and, vice versa, will help Nokia in listening to the Maemo community.

This is going to be really helpful and the candidates seem to be really good.
This also marks the first of this kind of council established between a strong commercially closed company as Nokia (even if Nokia is struggling to become more open) and a strong open source community.

Let's keep an eye on this link and let's get the most out of it!

Olympics Games spirit

Regardless.

Bejing 2008

It started.

Summer

I will miss this beaches in London. This one is near 'Spiaggia della Marinella' in Camerota, Salerno. Unfortunately the n810 is in the car, so...no GPS location. However, this beach is awesome!

Thank you.

Thank you Jane, little genius, for this.

Maemo Summit 2008: going to berlin!

Today I have noticed that the Maemo team accepted my sponsorship application for the Maemo Summit 2008 in Berlin, September 19-20!

I was not expecting it. I am very glad about this.
I am still trying to figure out what to actually do there.
My idea was to talk (but not a real talk where you listen and I speak,but rather a session where we both speak, ask and listen) about issues in porting desktop applications to the Maemo platform.
I would like to also underline the importance of evaluating the platform potential before even planning to port the application.
This should lead to a better integration of the application with the Maemo platform.
Porting an application is not only a matter of redefining the UI (even tho this is another extremely important aspect of the porting procedures).

Usually we think about the mobile devices as a cut down version of our desktops.
Even tho it's always true, it is also true that the mobile devices, often, provide more new features that the desktop doesn't or cannot provide at all.

Taking the key aspects of the target platform into the right account when planning a port, is fundamental for the success of the port.

I will refine these ideas during the following weeks.
Looks like it'll be an interesting summer (job hunting in London, Maemo Summit in Berlin and a few conferences/workshops/meeting related to my research).

Back on Xournal

UPDATE:
Looks like too many people have the maemo extras-devel repository installed.
They should not. Or at least, they should know what the extras-devel repo is.
The maemo extras-devel repository is intended as a tool for the developer to test out its code before promoting it to the real maemo Extras repository (the one that's pre-configured in your tablet when you buy it, disable).

Today I've uploaded an alpha version of Xournal (packaged for diablo) on the maemo extras-devel repository. Thus, those people got the notification of an update available and went straight to the Application Manager in order to update.

I see here two mistakes:

1) they should have not installed the -devel repository (unless they knew what they were doing)
2) the Application Manager should TELL from WHERE the package is coming from

However, the next release of Xournal HAS NOT YET been released.
And I strongly suggest, whoever has the maemo extras-devel repo installed, to NOT update to the Diablo version yet.

Check out this ITt forum thread for more info.
My post #198 on that thread explain how to solve the issue.

Thank you.

Original post:

Today I noticed that Xournal has been selected as "The Pearl" in the Maemo Downloads section.

Right on time, I would say as this morning I woke up and decided that it's time to upgrade my Maemo SDK to Diablo and re-package Xournal in order to make it appear in the Diablo extras repository.

So, thank you Maemo team for choosing Xournal as the current pearl!

Stay tuned, it shouldn't take too much time.

Diablo has been released!!!

Cool finally they released it!

Going to update.

You can find it the usual place for the n810 and n800.

Here you can find the announcement.

[UPDATED] Maemo: No Java and OpenGL ES support. Official.

UPDATE: Daniel Stone and Quim Gil further explained the status of the OpenGL ES and Java support in the comments to this post.
As they've pointed out, the title of my post is misleading in the sense that FOR NOW there is no support and no plan for it.
The "WONTFIX" part is, thus, temporary.
Daniel also went further and added a new comment to bug #1028

I will leave the original post below unedited.

-- ORIGINAL WRONG POST
This morning, during my usual e-mail check, I had a quick look at Maemo Bug Jar #9 and discovered this list of two bugs marked as RESOLVED: WONTFIX.

[This part is just plain wrong]
Thus, it's official: we won't get either Java and OpenGL ES support on the Nokia's Internet Tablets.

I was expecting it, but it's anyway sad to read that it's confirmed.

A-GPS support on the N8x0 is coming with Diablo

Looks like we will finally get really fast fix times, with our tablets, when Diablo will eventually come out.

ITT's forum user "qwerty12" noticed a nice "agps-ui" application to control AGPS on the tablet.
He went on and installed it and it works!

Other (lucky) Diablo (pre-release) users are reporting time to fix in the order of SECONDS!

Can't wait for the release of this new firmware.

iPhone version of Google Reader on the N810

Today I was going thru my feed subscriptions on Google Reader when I hit this interesting post from Jonathan Greene (aka atmasphere).

With no further ado I pointed my n810's browser to the iPhone version of Google Reader...awesome.
Really.

This made me think.. why they had to wait for the iPhone to come out in order to make stuff like that ?
Why other websites feel being pushed by the iPhone and not by the pletora of tablet-like devices running at the wonderful resolution of 800x480 or lower (Nokia tablets, Asus EEE PC, UMPCs, and so on...) ?

Anyway.. I am now enjoying Google Reader a lot more than before on my n810.

It would be nice to try it out on the n810 with a rotated screen :)

From another point of view, I was also thinking: wasn't Apple advertising a 'real internet' on your palm when talking about the iPhone version of Safari ?
So... what's the deal with so many websites featuring trimmed down version of their pages specifically for the iPhone ?
May be lack of screen real estate ?

TCFS Revival

Still works. :)

http://www.tcfs.unisa.it/

Xournal is skyrocketing...

Wow!!
Since I have released Xournal few days ago, a lot of people downloaded it and now Xournal is among the first 4 (yes, four!) most downloaded applications !
Thank you guys and thanks to Denis Auroux, the real developer of Xournal.

And thanks also for the great votes Xournal has got so far.

We're climbing fast :)

I was really surprised to see how many people downloaded Xournal, but really surprised to see that it was downloaded more than Canola or Maemo Mapper!
I would have never thought this was possible.

:) it's awesome!

UPDATE: We're second only to Pidgin...I can't believe it.

Xournal 0.4.2.1 available in Maemo Extras

Hello,

I just wanted to let people know that I have just finished to port the latest Xournal (version 0.4.2.1) to Maemo (sorry, only chinook for now).

The most interesting features of the new version are Pressure Sensitivity and Shape Recognition.
You can find more info about that on the Xournal page.

The Maemo port has a bunch of new features compared to the old port (version 0.4.1):

- The user interface has been fully hildonized
- Added pressure sensitivity toggle button (enabled by default)
- Added support for the Maemo File Manager (double tapping a .xoj file opens Xournal)
- Added support for the Backup/Restore application (the saved settings will be backed up)
- Menus have been shortened to contain Maemo useful options (Uncheck "Options->Shorten Menus" to get the whole menu items back)
- Color support has been greatly enhanced
- Help support added (russian translation also available, thanks to ITT forum member "sashabe")
- Overall size has been reduced to the bare minimum

You can find Xournal in the Maemo Extras repository, so just go to your Application Manager, enable the "maemo Extras" repository and refresh the list of applications.
Go to the Tools category to find Xournal and install it.
The full size should be a bit more than 1Mb.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed porting it.

Click on the image above to see it at full size.

Note: Xournal depends on the package "poppler-utils". It is actually in the "maemo Extras Devel" repository
(http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/ free non-free).
I will contact the poppler-utils maintainer to see if he can move it to "maemo Extras".
In the meanwhile you can use the install file that I have added to the Xournal page in the Maemo Downloads section.