Archive For March, 2008
Intro: thumbtribes has now morphed into a D-Bus daemon. More details will appear at thumbtribes.mobi. In short, thumbtribes is a low-bandwith distance calculation daemon. A typical use case would be to obtain the distance of a specific user and trigger a alert on the phone when they are within a certain distance. The daemon has [...]
Recently I have been climbing the steep learning curve of D-Bus. I will be experimenting with turning thumbtribes into a D-Bus daemon and possibly eliminating any web service. I intend to hack something together for Maemo first then Openmoko. D-Bus uses a binary protocol locally which I will extend to communicate with the outside world [...]
I needed to install lighttpd on my N810 but could not find a packaged version. I wanted to find the least painful way of solving this. I noticed that the OpenEmbedded (OE) project had a bitbake receipe for lighttpd. I already have OE running on my desktop so in theory I could edit local.conf to [...]