howto
The following text is from the introduction of the HOWTO I've written explaining how to modify a program to use Woodchuck. The focus is on the Python interface, but it should be helpful to anyone who...
View ArticleA Proper Development Environment Thanks to Tramp Mode in Emacs
As part of some Woodchuck-related work, I've done a fair amount of Python programming on Maemo. Python, being an interpreted language, runs the source code; there is no need to compile it to some...
View ArticleWireless Transfers are Battery Intensive
One of the arguments for [Woodchuck][http://hssl.cs.jhu.edu/~neal/woodchuck] is that it can save energy. In this post, I want to examine that claim a bit more quantitatively.To determine whether or not...
View ArticleManaging VCS Repositories with Woodchuck
At the recent GNU Hackers Meeting, I gave a talk about Woodchuck. (I'll publish another post when the video is made available.) The talk resulted in a lot of great feedback including a question from...
View ArticleWoodchuck Ported to N950
I've finished an initial port of Woodchuck to Harmattan. To get it, you need to manually add the source repository: Harmattan's application manager does not support .install files. Add the following to...
View ArticleWoodchuck Presentation in Vienna
I'll be at the N9 Hackathon this weekend in Vienna. Sunday morning (October 9th) at 10am, I'll give a presentation about Woodchuck. I'll talk a bit about Woodchuck's motivation and a fair amount about...
View ArticleKhweeteur Now Woodchuck Enabled
Khweeteur is a great twitter and identi.ca client for Maemo. One feature I particularly like is its support for queuing of status updates, which is useful when connectivity is poor or non-existent...
View ArticleProfiling Python Code
While working on the Woodchuck support in gPodder, I decided to profile the code. Reading the Python manual, I thought it would be as easy as: import cProfile cProfile.run('foo()') On both Debian and...
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A Subtilty in Overlaying Notification Windows on Maemo
I was recently hunting down a slightly annoying usability bug in Khweeteur, a Twitter / identi.ca client: Khweeteur can notify the user when there are new status updates, however, it wasn't overlaying...
View ArticleGNU Hackers Meeting
Hello World,This year's installment of the GNU Hacker's Meeting is just a month away.When: Thursday July 19th until Sunday July 22thWhere: DüsseldorfAs in previous years, the fun starts on Thursday...
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