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Yeah, I'm a native German. Kein Deutsches keyboard mehr, also Umlaute als ae un oe und so and mein Spellchecker flippt aus aber ja, Ich bin in Deutschland geboren und bin mit 28 ausgewandert. Ich hab in North Carolina un Kalifornien gelebt. Jetzt in Texas, Amerikanische Frau und Kinder und neimand hier sprich Deutsch. Est dauert immer so neh Woch before Ich wieder fluessing bin. Aber Ich schau mir schon Deutsches Fernsehen an, mit XBMC und Playon ZDF, ARD, etc.
Back to English:
Resizing: Yes, it is true that I have disabled reizing again. It turned out to be a hassle for me personally as the panels obviously start scrolling when you resize too small. I turned selfish and made them fixed size again. I don't think I will change this before Media Server. I also know that the Media Server project is dragging on much longer than I thought. The reason being that I am doing a bunch of different things at the same time (read my frontpage article on web application frameworks). So you will have to wait for that to materialize. It is already working, using GXT (GWT-Ext), looks very good but simply not complete. Bug me more and I will get done earlier, seriously. When I see that people are really witing for it (vs. me just imaginign it) I will put more emphasis on it.
Scraper: Yes, the scraper underwent some changes. One of the things it didn't do is pick the obvious. I have changed this but IMDB is a moving target. Mind you, it doesn't have an API so the code needs to have a look at a few web pages and try to pick the relevant portions from it. However, I had some email exchange with others (I would prefer these things to happen in the forum for everyone to see and agree) and there are some changes I need to make. Nothing radical but it requires a few hours that are really precious to me.
Browser: The problem is caused by 64 bit Java. I changed the Mac OSX to always to use Lobo (http://lobobrowser.org/download.jsp). However, the browser is not very good but currently the only alternative to Mozilla. I am using the Mozswing bindings and this project, like Lobo, seems dead as well. I do not have the time to cobble together 64 bit nindings (and probably lack the necessary skills). At the same time 64 bit Java is popping up everywhere. I *only* run 64 bit operating systems at this point and just refuse to run a 32 bit JDK myself. So I will add a profile option to pull up Lobo whenever necessary. Sun has promised a new component , JWebpane (google it), but they did so for nearly 2 years, demoed it this year, said it will come out before the end of the year (well, it's December now), were bought by Oracle and I don't know what the real status is. They are not forthcoming with these details. Anyhow, this is essentially what I am waiting for but Lobo will be an option until then. I might be able to get those changes done on the weekend but trust me, I am overwhelmed with open source work. SO hang tight, it is all going to happen, there will be some minor changes to plug the biggest issues (the support for thetvimdb will now use the version 2.0 API as well as XBMC uses) but I need to squeeze the hours out of it.
I have changed my main development OS to CentOS for good reasons (again read the frontpage article I am still writing, hopefully today and tomorrow you will see that I am not just diddling around). |
