Hello World and ZSNES 1.42

I stepped through the Debian New Maintainer’s Guide and built a .deb for GNU’s hello world, which was simple enough. So I moved onto attempting to create a package for ZSNES 1.42. Ubuntu’s Hoary and Breezy repositories still only have ZSNES 1.36. Unfortunately, I’ve been unsuccessful at getting any OpenGL modes working in 1.42, and lintian is still reporting one error and a couple warnings when it checks my .deb.

Typo is brand nubian

Although there are a few features missing compared to Wordpress and MovableType, the dynamic search capability and comments posting is just awesome. Typo’s a relatively young project, so the web administration interface is spartan but coming along nicely. It’s fully compatible with any rich client that supports MT or metaWeblog, so I think BloGTK will serve all of my needs until the web interface fleshes out. Tomorrow I’ll check out the Wordpress converter. If all goes well, I may decide to migrate the rest of the blogs I host and remove MySQL (Wordpress is the only application I have that uses a MySQL backend, the rest I have configured for PostgreSQL 8.0).

but why pay for it?

I’ve only been using Backpack for a day, but I can safely say that delivering reminders to my mobile phone is actually pretty effective. I don’t carry around my PDA everywhere anymore. And checking a web-based to-do list requires finding a terminal with Internet connectivity, which isn’t always possible. But since I do carry around my mobile phone everywhere, I actually receive reminders while I’m running around doing things instead of coming home to 5-6 reminders in Outlook/Evolution for tasks that I already completed.

37Signals did a good job of simplifying the information layout of Basecamp for personal use. But still, is this it? Ta-da List with chronological notes? And why would I pay for file/image storage when I could just store them someplace else (for free) and link to them in my notes?

PyGTK vs GTK#

I haven’t done much GUI coding with either binding, but I was intrigued when I read these blog entries on how fun (or rather, how relatively boring) it is to code on the GNOME platform these days. I don’t really have an opinion since I haven’t ever made contributions to GNOME, but I’d like to do a comparision coding small GUI apps in PyGTK and C#/Gtk# to see which one feels more natural and blog about my observations. Boo/Gtk# looks interesting too, but I’ll check that out after it’s had more time to mature.