Releases Galore!

It would be negligent of me if I did not point out that today several important software releases were made:

The first is the project formerly known as project greenhouse - now known as Qt Creator. I've blogged about this before. You can now download a technical preview. I'm very excited about this - having played with it in it's beta state I can't wait to use it with some of my active projects. Unfortunately I won't be doing any coding this weekend, as I'm off to Switzerland for a long weekend. I'll have to try it out when I get back.

The second big release event today is the Ubuntu family of distributions. That's right, version 8.10 is out now. I'm a kubuntu man myself, so I'll be trying this out after my long weekend as well.

That's all from me - I have several projects in the wings to blog about in the coming weeks, but for now I need to catch some sleep - my taxi arrives at 5:00 AM tomorrow.

Cheers,

post-vacation blues.

Well, I'm back from my holiday, with a slight tan and some great photos. Works has been busier than usual, so I'm struggling to find spare time to domuch at all.

My next hobby project will be to build my own ADSL / Ethernet / Wireless router box. I'm planning on using a Soekris net 4501 motherboard running a cut down version of Debian Linux. I'll update the blog when I get the parts, and I plan on writing a short HOWTO document which will include selecting the hardware, putting it all together, and the software as well.

I've added a selecton of photos from New Zealand to the main page - these haven't been edited in any way - yes, the country really does look like that!


Until next time!