Entertainer

Its been nearly 4 months since the last release of Entertainer but now version 0.2 RC (Release Candidate) has been made available. This release has many bug fixes, some minor enhancements (slide show feature, video playback eye candy among others) and some code clean-up but the real story is how Entertainer is progressing.

Look what turned up in the post today.

I have big plans for this little beauty. First I need to play around with it but on my list of things to do in the not too distant future is port Entertainer to the beagle board with the intentions of running it on the new Maemo 5 platform.

OK, its been a couple of days since the 0.1 release of entertainer and I purposely didn't blog about it until now.

0.1 is a major milestone for the entertainer project. It may seem such an insignificant number but 0.1 signifies the projects intentions. It shows that we have a piece of software that we are happy to show the rest of the world. We know it's a little ugly in parts, hell, even we are a little repulsed by parts of it but we know that with time and effort a swan can be made of this ugly duckling.

The development towards a 0.1 release of Entertainer is hotting up. Lots of bugs are being squished and final touches are being applied.

One of these final touches for me what adding a weather forecasting module. The first phase of this implementation was completed nearly two weeks ago. Last night saw the graphics being added. Below you can see what it looks like now.

I finally had a couple of spare hours to devote to the entertainer project over the past couple of days and things have begun to move forward. One of the features/bugs that was assigned to me was to investigate why the weather code failed the unit tests and also look at how the gui element could be implemented. Well, I managed to do both.