Glow Poi

We discovered Glow LED Poi at a recent festival. Fantastic for exercise and co-ordination, and for enjoyment. Started with doing simple things with only the dominant hand. Doing those same simple things with only the non-dominant hand is incredibly hard. After many months, now able to do a basic weave, which feels so good when mastered. Currently working on the reverse, before moving on. It is a meditation, as one needs to keep brain out of the way.

Incubator mail deluge

When the pressure is on, it is amazing how other seemingly unrelated things heat up at the same time.

We have the “go-live” for our new trading platform, which is big enough.

The Apache Incubator mail lists suddenly exploded. I am having trouble keeping up. The active discussions happen in the western hemisphere, first Europe then North America. In Australia we start our work day facing a deluge of past email threads. Slow down please.

Qtstalker gathers steam

Regarding the Qtstalker project, the open-source stock market charting and technical analysis package for UNIX-like systems: With my last post we thought that the new Qt4 version was nearly ready. There have been a number of different techniques attempted for enabling external programs (e.g. Perl, Python) to interact (e.g. for data loading and for indicators).

Now that is sorted, and the programs can be much more lean.

However, not yet ready for pre-release review.

See the notes at my previous post about out-of-date website, yet CVS happening.

Apache Forrest 0.9 released

We finally released Apache Forrest 0.9

In the almost four years since the last release, the Apache Forrest project has been ticking along with many bug fixes and consolidation.

Various Apache projects also use Forrest for their project websites. Among the many changes, there are also some useful documentation explaining how the Forrest project publishes our own project documentation via the ASF infrastructure and the download mirror system.

As usual, come to the mailing lists where we can assist each other.

Apache Forrest release plan preparation

Hooray, we are preparing the release plan for Forrest now on the dev mail list. Please help to get the product ready.

BarCamp Apache Sydney 2010

I am looking forward to the get together in
Sydney this weekend with some ASF people and some others.

Please also have your PGP fingerprint ready to exchange.

Qtstalker project rumbles

There are rumbles toward a release at the Qtstalker project, the open-source stock market charting and technical analysis package for UNIX-like systems

Steve has done much work towards this Qt4-based rewrite.

Help please to review. See the notes at my previous blog post about out-of-date website, yet CVS happening.