Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Isn’t this logo the greatest? Vikki made it up for the OPL Webring, which needs set up shortly. There’s still so much to do with OPL before it can become the third (second?) language on Symbian OS Smartphones, but the last week has seen a lot of major steps.
So, I’ve recieved a mysterious parcel from Munich with a Series 60 device that looks remarkably like an SX-1. And my two intial thoughts are this. It still looks like a CyberMat from Tomb of the Cybermen. Jeff Bridges could have had one of these in Tron. Im just waiting now for the David Warner limited edition red SX-2…
After many a long night testing the runtime, and putting a whole bundle of documents in place on the web, OPL for Series 60 has been released. Version 0.30 adds menu support. 7.0s support, FEP interaction (finally!) and a lot of under the hood changes. The documentation site is now up and running (visit the OPL Wiki), and you’ll all want to look at the Getting Started page. And browse the rest of the site of course! The next two major steps before a 1.0 (dialogs and asynchronus events) are up next. Rick reckons that mid-March for a release candidate
09.00, Symbian Keynote Very nice keynote, covering all the bases of Symbian OS. From my point of view, a few things leaped out. Firstly, the delightful introduction video… Was that really Paul McGann doing a voiceover? to Symbian’s attempt at a Japanese anime influenced trailer for Symbian. It’s corporate, it’s buzzwords, it’s… a bit bland. Stop relying on cliches. Of course it throws up this interesting quote: “Any intelligent fool can make something bigger and more complicated.” I wonder who they are refering too? The other point that was noticable was that Symbian OS is “complicated.” David Wood pointed out
Now this is something I can get my teeth into. Matt Croydon’s LOAF Project is pretty wide ranging. I don’t see it not making a splash in the next few months and becoming well known around the world. Here’s my bit… a LOAF implementation in OPL, using the LOAF.opx C++ extension.
This arrived in my email box – just like it did for Russ a few weeks ago… Dear Ewan, Congratulations on your talk being accepted for the Emerging Technology Conference in February. I have added the talk to the web site, and it will show up there shortly. O’Reilly Speaker Manager. More details on the talk (just to show that this is really happening) can be found here. Now to work out how to afford all this. OPL is a Free Open Source Project, so there’s no company funds to pay for it. It may be that I need to
