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CorneliOS pre-alpha finally available
November 28, 2006I didn't have much time during the last few weeks, but finally I'll write something now...
CorneliOS is finally available online - well, at least some pieces of code, but I'm really happy about this as the project didn't progress well during the last few years. The project had been launched in 2003, but it didn't really progress until 2006 when I used it to test some new scrum techniques (they really worked in fact). Now I finally made it to put something online, and it's available as GPL software from Sourceforge.
Okay, that's all for today, and I hope to find some more time soon...
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It's raining again...
January 17, 2007Crappy weather - we still got no snow and it's raining again, and that's one thing I really hate. But at least that's the only really bad news for the moment...
Software development is progressing well for the moment - I got CorneliOS 0.7.1r16 out yesterday, web based CorneliOS services are on the way and OLEFA 7 will probably be released within the next few weeks. So expect some news in this area in Jan and Feb.
Our coffee machine at EducDesign is working again, but I still ain't got a working TV remote control - it's broken since early december last year, and we still got no feedback by the Hifi customer support, which we think is TOTAL CRAP. So we decided to write a letter to their administration now, with a copy to the ULC, and hope this will help.
Back to work now...
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Back again…
April 21, 2007In early April we had great holidays in Switzerland, which is my favourite country. We were housing on a farm on the "Alm" (1300m latitude), we had great weather (both sun and 20cm of snow) and no TV. It was really cool, some photos will become available too (take a look at the new CorneliOS default desktop picture to get a first impression). The downside is, of course, that I didn't find the time to write anything, but even if I wanted it would have been difficult as there a we had no Internet connection up there in the mountains...
OLEFA 7.4 is out now, it took some kind to complete this one as many core features have been updated. But now that it's finally out it seems to be the most clean and stable version we ever had, and that's a good thing for all existing and upcoming customers. More fixes and refinements will follow in the upcoming months, and we may even prepare some new things.
CorneliOS has now officially reached the "alpha/beta" stage, and it has been featured in LINUX Magazine in the US which is really cool. I'm now shifting the focus more and more on the desktop and the front end applications, so expect some real progress within the next few weeks and months. Within the next few weeks I'll also moving all blogs from Wordpress to the CorneliOS database architecture, and hopefully I'll get the forum stuff ready.
The bad news is that the Galaxiki wiki editor is not ready yet (damn!), so I'll have to fix this too within the upcoming few weeks so that community members will finally be able to edit their stuff. But, on the other hand, a new CorneliOS powered site will go online soon, so we'll stay positive...
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Website updates and some more JAM experience
June 11, 2007The CorneliOS website (www.cornelios.org) has been completely redesigned. The previous template was almost a year old, it was created when the CorneliOS WDE (Website Display Engine) was still in an early development stage and it didn't make use of the latest system technology.
The entire website redesign took only 4 hours - which includes the creation of the design concept, the graphical design (plus slicing and optimizing), the new template creation, minor text changes and smaller changes to almost all pages on the site. The methodology that allowed to complete this update so quickly was the Joopita Agile Method (aka "JAM"), plus some other new concepts I developed to further reduce the effort required to manage and complete projects that include development, marketing and design processes.
I'm really happy with the result, which also clearly shows that JAM really works when applied correctly. I hope I'll find the time to write some JAM and agile development / marketing articles soon, could be interesting for you if you're a webmaster too, so stay tuned and bookmark this page!
But there have been smaller changes to other sites too within the last few weeks, for example the new bulldog information pages on www.bullyfashion.com (also available in german) and a new "free and cool" section on Galaxiki which now offers free wallpapers (desktop images).
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Galaxiki, a fictional galaxy anyone can edit, will be launched on Sunday, July 1st 2007
June 15, 2007Galaxiki is a web-based, free content virtual community project. It consists of a virtual galaxy with over a million stars and solar systems that can be explored using a 2-dimensional map. Each star, each planet and each moon represents one wiki page, the idea behind the project is that Galaxiki site members, also called "Galaxicians", can edit those pages and write fictional histories about them. Galaxiki's name is a portmanteau of the words "galaxy" and "wiki" (a type of collaborative website).
The Galaxiki rules say that real world physics should be respected, but it also allows some popular exceptions known from most science fiction novels, such as traveling faster than light for example. This also implies that species inside the Galaxiki world can meet (at least if their solar systems are in a closer range), which is a challenge for Galaxicians as they have to make sure to eleminate inconsistencies. Science fiction stories on Galaxiki are currently published under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Galaxiki membership, editing solar systems and using all other site features is free. To finance the project, solar systems can be "freed", which means that Galaxicians can make solar systems writable by making a small donation to the project. When a Galaxician "frees" a solar system he/she can decide if the system shall become open for the entire community, or if the system shall become a private project. In this case it is also possible to dedicate the star or solar system to someone. There is also a dedicated page for sponsors or advertisers, but there shall be only an absolute minimum of advertising to keep the site as clean as possible.
Galaxiki was launched as a prototype on March 12, the official launch is planned for Sunday, July 1st 2007. It is already possible to sign up on www.galaxiki.org, although editing stars, planets and moons will become operational on July 1st 2007.
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