gumbercules.net » Linux

Older Loot Versions

chris — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:17:00 +0000

I recently checked out my server logs to try to get some statistics about how many users are using the latest version, since version 1.4.4 removed the update checker that was implemented before the Android Market had that functionality. So by checking the logs, any access to the old version updater had to be running a version prior to 1.4.4. It won’t tell me anything about people who chose to disable the old version, but it at least gives me an idea.

So the final numbers came out to at least 6.5% using an older version, and quite possibly one with a bug that broke the database backup procedure. So get on the Market and upgrade, people!

Loot

chris — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:08:35 +0000

I’ve finally created a project page for the project which has taken up most of my development time for the past year or so. Loot is essentially a port of mokash to the Android OS. Except people actually own phones that run Android.

Officially Official

chris — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:06:40 +0000

Mokash is now an official OpenMoko.org project. I’ve just finished copying the current svn repository over to the openmoko.org repository, and that will be the new official repository. The old repository on my home server will occasionally be updated to match the openmoko.org one, but it probably won’t be very often, so don’t come here looking for it. I still need to move the current tickets and such over to the OMO tracker, but that’s not a high priority. Thanks to this, this project will have higher availability (no more monthly reboots or crashes!) and the opportunity to be seen by a larger amount of OpenMoko users.

Bitbake package files available

chris — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:59:37 +0000

If you’re looking to include mokash into an OpenMoko image, look no further. I’ve completed the first version of the bitbake package files for mokash (and simclist, since no package file exists). They can be found here.

Also, there were definitely some bugs in the version 0.1 that I originally released. Turns out, I forgot to add a lot of source files to Makefile.am, which caused a lot of files to go missing when I ran make dist-gzip to create the archive. I fixed that, and now the archive reflects it, but there were some other show-stopping bugs I ran into on a different test machine regarding locales. The fixes for those problems are not in the archive, but a patch exists (conveniently in the bitbake package files) that will bring the source up to svn revision 61, which also incorporates a few items that were planned for the 0.2 release.

mokash v0.1 released

chris — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:51:49 +0000

I’m proud to announce that I’ve reached what I consider to be version 0.1 for mokash. It probably still has some bugs in it, and definitely needs to be tested on a Neo1973, but I’m confident that it can work as a day-to-day check register. A few of the features I’ve implemented include locale-based currency display and entry, searching based on tags or parties, and automatic transaction purging.

Please download it and give me feedback, especially if you own a Neo1973. I’ll not be able to purchase one as soon as I’d hoped, so every bit of feedback is helpful. And if you encounter any bugs, or would like a feature implemented, please file a new ticket in Trac.

New project – mokash

chris — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:35:40 +0000

I’ve begun work on a new project that goes by the name of mokash. It’s a bank account management application designed for use on the FIC OpenMoko Neo1973 phone. It is currently planned to be written in C, using Gtk2 for the UI, although it may change to libmokoui to fit in with the phone’s look and feel. It is heavily inspired by PCash for PalmOS, which I use to keep track of my own bank accounts.

I’ll keep posted on developments for it and create a project page soon. Until then, the trac page is available to look at the source code or submit tickets.

Arch FTW!

chris — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:32:44 +0000

I’ve been using Arch Linux on my laptop for about a month now, and last night I was ready to give up on it. One update completely borked a lot of packages. But after researching a little more, I discovered that the mirror I synced to was using a more up-to-date tree than the rest of the mirrors. So I actually set my mirrors correctly, removed the unstable packages that were installed from the broken mirror, and went about my merry way.