Coder's Log

Jussi recently commited some major changes to Ross ' gupnp-binding-tool and one of the new features is support for server-side bindings. This makes writing UPnP implementations in C even more easier. So laziness is becoming less and less of an excuse to not write UPnP stuff. :) Here is a nice document with a nice explanation of how to use it.

Claudio has bad memory so here is my feelings about both of these places in my own words: Meritähti : I really like that place, nice food in a very affordable price. Also it is very near to our office, which makes it the first choice to go to for a meal before we hit another bar for good beers. However, it is most definitely not the best restaurants or bar in Helsinki. Not even one of the best ones. There are lots of very excellent restaurants in the city but of course they charge a lot more. Molly Malone's : That is one of the best bars in Helsinki, lots of nice beers, nice friendly atmosphere and live concert every evening. BTW, Bastien just committed my patch to nautilus-sendto trunk that adds support for sending files to UPnP Media Servers. I've only tested in against Nokia N81 and Media Server provided by Intel tools for UPnP but it should work for most of the Media Servers that support uploading.

As most of you probably know already, GUPnP is now officially part of Maemo and therefore future internet tablets. This is a major milestone and gives a big boost to my motivation to continue my UPnP adventure. Although I try to put as much of the bits and peaces of spare time i get from my job into UPnP work and I am pretty sure the Intel (former OH ) will continue their work as well, we could certainly use more hands to accelerate the development. If you want to help, here is a short list of TODOs that you might want to have a look at and decide if you could help on any of these: Bindings : Although the more bindings we have the more worlds we can conquer but what we definitely need is bindings for most popular languages in GNOME/Maemo world, namely C#/mono, Java and Python. If you are interested in helping with this, I strongly suggest you take the g-i-r route . Also if you are only interested in C# bindings, I suggest you talk to Jerome Halton who already have a half-baked solu

Many thanks to Olivier Crête , we now have a nice small library for firing holes through firewalls using a part of UPnP IGD API. This library also provides a convenient way to do all that without having to use a gmainloop. While Olivier will most probably use it in his farsight2 , I am sure this will be useful for other projects (I did not say Ekiga :)) as well.

My last blog post managed to attract the attention of some of our beloved GNOME developers, especially the ones working on/with embedded systems. That made me realize that I am not (at least completely) on crack and decided to file a nice big bug for addition of something similar to GstMiniObject to core gobject library. Lets see what happens next. :)

I had always been hearing that GObjects are slow and it's not always a good idea to use/write them but I never saw any evidence to support that. I had this desire to write a test application to get this evidence but felt too lazy to do it in C. I realized a few days ago that I can write such an app very easily in Vala without giving up much on my laziness. :) So here is an app that I wrote last evening after returning from vacation. Here are the results on my laptop: $ ./test-perf 0.000182 seconds taken in creating 10000 structs. 0.001598 seconds taken in creating 10000 instances (compact). 0.003522 seconds taken in creating 10000 instances. 0.090455 seconds taken in creating 10000 instances (GObject). The ranking is exactly how I expected it to be but didn't expect such a big difference between them all.

What a beautiful country. The people were very nice and the food was just amazing.