Coder's Log

Rygel 0.7.1 (Home on the Remains) is out! A new release in the current unstable 0.7.x series for upcoming GNOME 2.31.4 release. - Implement DLNA's 'AnyContainer' upload extenstion. This allows clients to upload items without having to specify target container. Currently it only works for the Tracker backend. - Report types of items that could be created/uploaded in a container and allow clients to search containers by this property. - Port last bits of C code to Vala. Now Rygel is completely written in Vala. - Make Rygel build/work against both current stable and unstable Vala releases. - Offer SD transcoding in EU profile. Seems certain Sony Bravia TVs only support EU profiles. With this change, they should at least be able to use the SD transcoding. - Two more unit tests. - Provide default configuration for WMV transcoding. - Correctly handle boolean commandline option for disabling WMV transcoder. - External: - Port the external plugin to use the new D-Bu...

As part of this years Google Summer of Code, Sunil Ghai (a student from India) has taken-up the task of securely bridging multiple UPnP networks across the internet. You can follow the progress of the project through Sunil's blog . Before you say it, yes! I did get the idea from my "competitors" but unlike them, we are going to do it the (UPnP) standard and efficient (as usual) way.

GUPnP 0.13.4 released! Changes since 0.13.3: - GUPnPService should remove all handlers installed on the shared SoupServer instance when it is disposed. - Fixate subscription timeout to be 300s as per DLNA requirement (7.2.22.1). - Correct type of action argument of GUPnPService::action-invoked. - Remove redundant copying of GValue content in a few places. - Handle multiple variables inside property node in event notifications to be compatible with server-side implementations using older GUPnP - Fix syntax of event notifications with multiple properties. - Add/fix gobject-introspection annotations for various functions. - Some non-functional improvements. Bugs fixed in this release: 2084 - Add scope annotations to various functions 2131 - GUPnPServiceAction is a boxed, not a pointer 2086 - Fix gtk-doc format on all functions in public GUPnP API All contributors: Sven Neumann Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) Zach Goldberg Download source tarball from here ----------- GUPnP AV 0.5.6...

I am looking for someone to share a room with in a hostel/hotel in Hague during GUADEC. If you are interested, please send me a mail.

Rygel 0.7.0 (Picture if You Will) is out! This release marks the start of the new unstable release-cycle. This is also the release cycle that will be integrated into GNOME 2.31 (and 3.0 eventually). Changes since 0.6.0: - Exit on failure to load any plugins in 5 seconds. - Add icon to preferences UI's desktop file. - Correct error on missing 'Elements' node in 'CreateObject' action from client. - Advertize upload features in 'X_DLNACAP' in device description. - Remove comments from description files as per DLNA requirement (7.2.30.1). - Don't allow comments in DIDL-Lite from client either. This is to satisfy the DLNA Confirmation Test Tool rather than DLNA itself. - Don't advertize unimplemented actions. - autogen.sh should create m4 directory if it doesn't exist already. - Correct Icon path in preferences UI for uninstalled case. - Specify on debug log where rygel is currently looking for plugins. - Localization: - Don't translate al...

The decision for inclusion of modules into GNOME (3.0) just came-in and proposal for Rygel was approved. \o/ Now I better get it working. :)

So last saturday I got married to this amazing woman I've been in love with for the last 3 years of my life. Except for the start of the wedding (when I was extremely nervous) I enjoyed the whole event a lot. That includes the bachelor's party that my awesome friends threw me 2 days before the wedding. Here are some pictures worth sharing, the first one being from Bachelor's party, as you can guess: Although many people helped in different ways, three people that deserve the most appreciation are Timo (my best man) who arranged the Bachelor's party, Anna Haukka who was the main official photographer and Tiina Taxell (Bride's maid). Also special Thanks to Edward to arrange some important things before the wedding and Christian (also my best man) for bringing Edward so early in the morning and the rings. :) One of the weird things about my wedding was that it brought many hackers from all around Europe to Helsinki for a few days. :)