Integrate WebKit in Haiku native browser, My GSoC proposal.

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• Maxime Simon

• Brief biography:

  I am currently in my third year studying Computer Science at Rennes 1 University in France.

  I have some experience with development thanks to several academic projects, chiefly written using the Java and C languages.

  Our first big project used an obscure language called “oRis”, an object and agent-oriented language developed as part of the doctoral thesis of Fabrice Harrouet. The project’s objective was to design a simulation of pathfinding robots, with basic behaviour and capable of cooperating to achieve goals in a virtual maze. This project enabled us to learn how to manage a project using Subversion, and how to organise its development. The project was managed at this page: http://code.google.com/p/csr/

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GSoC project : Internationalization for Haiku

Hello world ! As you know, I am one of the selected students for this year summer of code. In this post I will introduce myself and give some details about my project.

My name is Adrien Destugues, some of you may know me as PulkoMandy as i’ve been lurking on the irc channel and mailing lists for some time. I already applied for the Summer of Code and Haiku Code Drive last year but unfortunately I was not selected. This year it went better :) I’m studying electronics and computer science at the ENSSAT (École Nationale Supérieure de Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie), in Lannion, France. I used to run BeOS as my main operating system for some time, but I now switched to Linux. I have a running Haiku install on my hard disk, but as my network card is not supported, I don’t use it much for everyday work. I hope this will change soon.

R1/Alpha : Welcoming the Newcomers

Context

Newcomers

1. Where can I help ?
2. I want to port [insert favorite software from linux] !!!!
3. Many others...

We should make sure that we can “steer” them to the correct teams (according to their tastes).

Alpha release coordination / plan

Greetings,

I’m proposing myself as a release coordinator for the upcoming Alpha Release, and here are the highlights of the plan.

First, this plan shouldn’t be applied before those conditions are met :

• the LiveCD works quite good (with no major issues left). My understanding of that topic is that we still need the FS overlay (that allows attributes over iso9660) to support live queries. If there is anything more to add to this point, please comment. Plus, the ioscheduler should be tweaked to enhance the user experience using that media.
• all the criticals (blockers) issues already identified are fixed. I see that a lot of them have already been taken care of; that's good! :)

What I propose is to set a condition list, that when all met, will trigger the countdown. So here is the basic timeline I propose :

A Jocund Eulogy

According to my resume, I’ve been contributing to Haiku since 2002. I don’t remember how I determined that start date, and GMail is only five years old so searching that does not provide me with an answer either. What I do know is that I feel a strong connection with this project. Which really makes it all that harder to part.

I remember I started by writing a naive proposal about internationalization back when this was still OpenBeOS. You should know that at the time I was sixteen years old, so I never really knew BeOS, and I just came from the translation team from KDE. I left that project in search of something bigger, more integrated, more … I think we have all been there. BeOS seemed like a materialization of that dream. Only, Be Inc. already turned into ashes when I started my quest. A bunch of silly coders with a vision were determined to continue that dream. Little did they know that seven years later their code would boot on many machines - even though mine right now seems to be left out of the fun. My proposal on internationalization, however, never came to materialize.

And yet another deadline wooshed by...

Rule #1: never set deadlines when you’re moving houses. Rule #2: no, they won’t reconnect the Internet on a timely fashion, so don’t count on it. Telcos make no distinction between “worst case scenario” and “average turnaround time”. Rule #3: by Murphy’s law, don’t plan on spending some minutes of your lunch time at work writing the blog entry you promised. Your boss will ask you favours if s/he has the slightest suspicion that you’re idling. Rule #4: smartphones aren’t made for writing texts of any real length. Don’t be tempted to use one for this purpose, else prepare yourself for a lot of grief.

Haiku at SCaLE 2009: the Report

Haiku booth at SCaLE 2009

After a long week of chronic procrastination, here is finally my report from the recent SCaLE conference. The 7th Southern California Linux  Expo, familiarly known as SCaLE 7x, was held at the Westin Hotel Los Angeles Airport Hotel on February 20th through the 22nd, and Haiku had its booth for the third year in a row. SCaLE is a bit special for me, as it was the first show that I did for Haiku (back in 2007) and because that's where Haiku made its debut at a big open source conference; I personally view this first appearance combined with the now renowned Haiku Tech Talk that we gave at the Google Mountain View offices soon after (Google video available here) as a sort of turning point for a project coming out of obscurity and starting to make it in front of the eyes of the world. Melancholic aspects aside, SCaLE is a popular open source event that combines abundant and rich speaker tracks with an exhibit floor that has a healthy mix of open source projects and businesses, so it is a great place to raise awareness and promote the project among a small but well qualified audience of mainly geeks and business people both involved in open source.

Remember the "Young Offender"

“We’re busy running out of time”, said the lyrics.

Actually, the whole lyrics to that song just ring so true to me. Never really liked the song itself, though.

I expect to post the promised (on the mailing list) blog entry by tomorrow.

FOSDEM 2009 report

Here is my own report about what happened at FOSDEM. Actually so many things went on I probably missed some.

Getting there

For this second time at FOSDEM, I tried to get a shared devroom with other projects, but there were so many requests we only had a booth. We probably wouldn't have had enough material alone for two days anyway. Besides, manning a booth itself is already quite demanding.

makebootable - What and why and how to do it manually

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			Usual question: "I've dd'ed the image to somewhere and now it doesn't boot". Usual advice: "You have to make it bootable by using makebootable". Usual reaction: "Ehm, ok how do I do that?". Since this type of question comes up quite frequently, let me try to explain a bit of background on that pseudo-mystical tool "makebootable", how you can get it and how you can manually make a partition bootable without even needing makebootable.
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