Gentoo 2006.1

Went out of town to play a few gigs and managed to catch a bug, the microscopic bacterial kind. So I was sick over this whole Labor Day weekend and didn't get to touch dbus-ruby. However, it did give me an opportunity to start the upgrade process on my laptop to Gentoo's 2006.1 profile, pick up Rails Recipes. I also watched some U.S. Open tennis to make up for the fact that I missed Andre Agassi's last career match while I was out of town.

dbus-ruby-0.2.0 pending

dbus-ruby is getting back on track! Leon Breedt has graciously handed over maintainership of the bindings and I'm now in the midst of achieving compatibility with dbus-core-0.92. The last ChangeLog entry mentions the 0.23 release so there is quite a bit of changes to be made. The extension is building again though, at least, and my next objective is to get all of the basic examples running without spewing failed assertions. Additionally, I was lucky enough to catch this entry from John Palmieri's blog and give myself some low-hanging fruit while reading the source for the first time.

backpack-sharp 0.0.2

libbackpack-sharp is now called backpack-sharp since steev suggested I change the name, and I suppose "lib" is a library naming convention that creeped into my head from the Debian CLI Policy draft. I also finally acquired some auto*-fu and 0.0.2 should be pretty easy to package now for all distros.

libbackpack-sharp-0.0.1

This is the first release of libbackpack-sharp, a C# client wrapper of 37signals' Backpack web service API. Another implementation exists already, which I didn't discover until prepping for 0.0.1. Oh well, libbackpack-sharp aims to be a bit more object-oriented - gateway methods are hidden behind the facade of easy-to-use native .NET equivalents of all the domain model classes (Page, Item, Note, etc.). The purpose of writing this library was primarily to try out some of C# 2.0's features (generics and anonymous methods), but perhaps I'll use it to write a Tomboy plugin. The source code is licensed under the LGPL and requires Mono's gmcs compiler branch to build. I have not tested it with .NET Framework 2.0.