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Work and Warwick University
I’ve been exceptionally busy over the past month finishing off a lot of things before I start at Warwick University including training my replacement at my job in Leicester, finishing off most of the work on the Alpha Sales and Stock Database System for the 6 clients which are currently using the software, and other [...]
Entertainer 0.3
Entertainer 0.3 was released yesterday, here’s a link to the announcement.
Talking about Entertainer at Warwick University
I did a presentation today at Warwick University titled “Open Source Development on the Entertainer Media Center”.
It went well and there were plenty of questions about the project afterwards. The presentation was created in OpenOffice and you can download the file here [3069kb].
What’s Up…
I’ve just finished the final mock exam for the courses I’m currently revising for. I have two exams on Friday, both of them are three hours long, with a break of one and a half hours in between.
Revision is going well at the moment and I think I’ll get my target results. The one thing [...]
2008 FLOSS Media Center State of the Art Report
The Entertainer Media Center is featured in the 2008 FLOSS Media Center State of the Art report.
You can download the report from here
We are in the top 10 “most prominent FLOSS projects” for media center which is a really good result for such a young project.
Translation Support in Entertainer
I’ve been working on implementing translation support for the Entertainer Media Center over the last couple of weeks and it finally got merged into the main source code branch today. YAY!
The translation work will be done through launchpad’s
Entertainer 0.1 Released!
Entertainer reached the 0.1 milestone yesterday. Download page here.
Entertainer 0.1 coming soon…
The Entertainer Project (www.entertainer-project.com) is going to be releasing version 0.1 in two weeks time on the 14th June.
To test it prior to release (you’ll need bzr) get a console up and type in the following:
bzr branch lp:entertainer
Development website is over on launchpad (https://launchpad.net/entertainer/)
Using python-coverage for tests in Entertainer
I recently read a blog post about python-coverage. This is a module which works out how much of a python file has been used when a python file is run.
One very helpful use it can be put to is that of working out how much of a project’s source code has been covered by unit [...]
Entertainer Sprinting
We had a coding sprint for entertainer this weekend, among the things completed were:
Lots of progress on the new ORM
Weather and WeatherForecasts have been written and interface with the Yahoo Weather website. Locations for weather