User:Kero
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| − | + | Favourite programming language: Ruby | |
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| + | Previous PDA experience: familiar-linux on iPAQ | ||
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| + | interested in pim-suites; ecal+dbus+gtk seems enough to build some nice pim applications on OpenMoko. | ||
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| + | == Ruby == | ||
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| + | Ruby including '''cairo (as of Oct 20)''', gtk2 and glade2 bindings available! See link below. | ||
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| + | dbus seems nice, but there is a clear lack of which libs provide which interfaces over dbus in openmoko/openembedded. | ||
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| + | esd/dbus as evolution server seems nice (but is it right?) Revolution (Ruby-evolution) also works. | ||
| + | However, the underlying iCal/VCard s*cks bigtime. A business card is ''not'' an entry in my address book. | ||
| + | An appointment in iCal is OK-ish, but making an appointment is still impossible, even with RFC 2446 in place. | ||
| + | Perhaps GUIs just do not show what a user is supposed to do. | ||
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| + | But the whole world uses it, so I guess I have no real alternative. | ||
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| + | == Testing framework for gsmd/libgsmd == | ||
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| + | Because I find (lib)gsmd lacking in stability, I wrote a little proof of concept for a testing framework in | ||
| + | [http://rspec.info/ Rspec], which you can find [http://chmeee.dyndns.org/om/testing_gsmd.html on my own server]. | ||
| + | The framework emulates/mocks the firmware. This way, you can run the tests on any linux PC. | ||
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| + | Any user can write a test for functionality that should work (typically, when they find a bug; developers have | ||
| + | higher responsiblities). The behaviour of a test should be predictable. The behaviour of firmware can be set per test, | ||
| + | and the behaviour of the application should be put in the When/Then steps of the framework. | ||
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| + | == External Page == | ||
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| + | [http://chmeee.dyndns.org/om/ Kero's external OpenMoko page] providing screenshots and the ruby feed (and some other code). | ||
Latest revision as of 04:52, 16 February 2008
Favourite programming language: Ruby
Previous PDA experience: familiar-linux on iPAQ
interested in pim-suites; ecal+dbus+gtk seems enough to build some nice pim applications on OpenMoko.
[edit] Ruby
Ruby including cairo (as of Oct 20), gtk2 and glade2 bindings available! See link below.
dbus seems nice, but there is a clear lack of which libs provide which interfaces over dbus in openmoko/openembedded.
esd/dbus as evolution server seems nice (but is it right?) Revolution (Ruby-evolution) also works. However, the underlying iCal/VCard s*cks bigtime. A business card is not an entry in my address book. An appointment in iCal is OK-ish, but making an appointment is still impossible, even with RFC 2446 in place. Perhaps GUIs just do not show what a user is supposed to do.
But the whole world uses it, so I guess I have no real alternative.
[edit] Testing framework for gsmd/libgsmd
Because I find (lib)gsmd lacking in stability, I wrote a little proof of concept for a testing framework in Rspec, which you can find on my own server. The framework emulates/mocks the firmware. This way, you can run the tests on any linux PC.
Any user can write a test for functionality that should work (typically, when they find a bug; developers have higher responsiblities). The behaviour of a test should be predictable. The behaviour of firmware can be set per test, and the behaviour of the application should be put in the When/Then steps of the framework.
[edit] External Page
Kero's external OpenMoko page providing screenshots and the ruby feed (and some other code).
