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The Haiku Tutorial is Here!

Blog post by RhapsodyGuru on Tue, 2011-12-06 23:40
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Greetings Haiku-ers!

So... I have finally gotten around to finishing the Haiku tutorial I set out to complete over a year ago. I was hoping to have it done sooner, but I decided to then prolong graduation for another year. However, my thesis project has been a rocking success, and you can finally see the fruits of my labors. :D

This production should be incorporated into the project as official tutorial material. I am very happy to have been involved in this project, and I sincerely thank everyone for their support... especially Matt Madia for green-lighting the project and Joe Prostko for his assistance and unswerving benevolence. 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. Please feel free to opine in the comments section below! I want to hear all of your thoughts! :D

This video is licensed under the Creative Commons (Attrib / No-Derivs) license. This work is owned in its entirety by Haiku, Inc. and the project.

EDIT: Some of you have requested the source link for the video. You can find it at the following link... http://vimeo.com/33197748

An Epic Haiku Tutorial Video Series Is Now In The Making!

Blog post by RhapsodyGuru on Fri, 2010-11-05 02:32
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Hello Haiku fans!

I am about to kick off a project that will benefit the Haiku community at large by addressing an area that I feel needs attention. Enter the Haiku video tutorial series. An easy to understand guide that will draw viewers into the beautiful Haiku operating system while presenting all the features and work instructions in a plain and concise manner. Not only will these tutorials be designed to teach, they will also drive home a message which will prove that Haiku is the only OS designed from the ground up for use on the desktop PC. Whether you're a grandma just getting into computers or a tech genius who loves to hack around and write code, Haiku is designed for everyone from all walks of life. Hopefully the videos will inspire and help others to pick the OS up and become an adopter.

For those of you wondering about licensing, all of the content I create will be placed under Creative Commons for the sake of clinging to the spirit of open source. I am currently in the outlining and preparation phases for this task and will commence filming and capturing soon thereafter. If anyone has any suggestions, comments or questions they would like to press forward, please don't hesitate to drop a line here or on the Haiku mailing list. Thank you all for this great opportunity to work for the Haiku project.

Cheers,

Matt Nawrocki
Haiku Enthusiast

Unit Testing for Fun and Profit

Blog post by yourpalal on Fri, 2010-06-18 17:55
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I noticed the other day that I had a comment below my previous blog post, I didn't have time to reply that day, the next day I was in bed sick, but TODAY, I can reply! In the comment, AndrewZ asked if I could post some of my unit testing code, and I thought that would make for an interesting blog post, and here one is.

OpenJDK Hotspot libjvm.so built on Haiku

Blog post by andrewbachmann on Sun, 2009-12-20 23:49
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As my first blog entry, I present a set of instructions for building the OpenJDK "hotspot" repository on Haiku. The product of this process will be a partial jre, including the libjvm.so libraries.

Found a bug squasher!!

Blog post by kvdman on Tue, 2009-01-20 14:12
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I've found a developer to bring over to Haiku who's interested in helping with the alpha bugs! Please follow the news here:

http://www.haikuware.com/20090120260/found-a-bug-squasher

Bluetooth Bounty Complete

Blog post by kvdman on Sat, 2008-11-29 17:30
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Oliver Ruiz Dorantes:

http://urnenfeld.blogspot.com/2008/11/5th6th-milestone-phase-1-reached.html

has recently committed:

http://cia.vc/stats/author/oruizdorantes

the last parts and completed phase 1 of Haikuware's bluetooth bounty:

http://www.haikuware.com/bounties/bluetooth-bounty

As such, he was transferred the bounty's pool of $1820.47 (he also received some RAM for his hardware donated by haikuware admin thenerd). The bounty fell a little short of the $1950 he requested, but all in all I think he'll be happy with that sum.

I'd like to thank all the bounty contributors that made this possible, as well as Oliver for the hard work he put in to give Haiku the code for a functional bluetooth base! Congrats all around.

Google Summer of Code Project: Alternate System Timers

Blog post by Dustin Howett on Sun, 2008-05-11 00:45
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Hello, Everybody!
I'm Dustin, the student in the 2008 Summer of Code who is going to implement support for system timers other than the TSC in Haiku.

I've been actively tracking (and trying to involve myself in) Haiku's development for a few months now, but have been passively watching it since Be, Inc. went under and OpenBeOS sprang to life. In that time, I've gained a basic understanding of the Be/Haiku API, and of limited parts of the Haiku kernel.

Couple growing kernel knowledge with studying standards documents such as that for the HPET, and I believe I can finish this, or get a very appreciable start on it, over the summer, and plan to stick around long afterwards.

I can be found in #haiku on Freenode, my nickname is DHowett.

Thanks very much,
Dustin Howett

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