So, Ross went ahead and spoilt my fun by announcing the funky new Poky site with the awesomely cute Beaver mascot.
I’ve been spending the last few weeks getting the release together and testing on some of our new hardware platforms. My main contribution to this release however was the awesome new Anjuta plugin that does lots of cool stuff to help you develop with Poky. Enough babbling, go for the screencast (OGG version).
Woooh! Anjuta plugin in action
Thanks to the nice guys at iRex Technologies for sponsoring this work. As usual, packages are available at the OH repository.
Since Clutter 0.6 was released today i’ve been building packages like mad.
You can fetch them for the components released today (core, cairo, gst and gtk) from the OH repository at debian.o-hand.com. This includes packages built for Ubuntu ‘gutsy’ and Debian unstable.
Packages for the bindings will also be uploaded when the new versions are released over the coming days.
Awesomeness. Thanks to Jeff for organising it.
My talks went really well, thanks to everyone who attended, asked questions and gave feedback. Huge kudos to the other participants. Some great things were shown off and discussed.
I’d also like to use this opportunity to promote Josh Stewart’s Gloss. It’s a replacement MythTV frontend using Clutter. He’d love to get some more MythTV users to test it.
A Snowman in Melbourne
So, if i’ve put my Oyster card through the wash does that mean i’ve broken the money laundering rules? And, more importantly, is it still going to work?
The 500,000 bug was reported yesterday. Compare this with the rather lacklustre performance of the KDE bugzilla on only ~150,000. 
It seems the Wordpress developers have made some wrong decisions in their use of MD5. Full details are in this announcement. In summary, the hash in the cookie for authentication contains MD5(MD5(password)) and the database MD5(password). This means that anyone with access to the hash from the database can pretend to be this user. Whoops. This shows that once again that security is hard as people consistently make the same mistakes.
More details and background on the Security Group blog.
My friend Martin has started a blog on usability, Yes, No, Cancel? (or in German, Ja, Nein, Abbrechen). He appears to have stalled after a good start so perhaps this mention will get him going again. He offers usability consulting through his company, Ept Computing.
Martin, an early victim of the new camera
Howies have an excellent range of ethical and ecologicaly sound clothes. Whilst I was in their shop on Carnaby St I bought a bright orange Nalgene, They sell them to encourage people to use one bottle rather than hundreds or thousands of plastic bottles, to encourage this further they have a tap in their store where you can fill up your purchase. Smart thinking. Their blog is a little bit crazy though.
On the way back from Carnaby St I got a bit lost and ended up at Playlounge which sells the cool vinyl toys that adorn OH cental. Whilst I was there I couldn’t resist buying a copy of Clutter Magazine.
If I had a grain of rice for every minute I have spent watching a progress bar over the years, I would be able to make you all a bowl of kedgeree. As it is, I shall cook you all up a weekly article instead.
Stephen Fry now has a geeky column in the The Guardian’s Saturday glossy.
Packages for Anjuta 2.2.2 were uploaded to Debian unstable yesterday. I also built packages for Ubuntu’s ‘gutsy’ and put them in a PPA on Launchpad. The packages currently available in ‘gutsy’ are liable to crash due to issues with the plugins. The sources.list line for these packages is:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/robster/ubuntu gutsy main universe