http://paul.luon.net Trying to figure it all out en-us Jekyll 2013-01-05T21:21:00+01:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/ hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://paul.luon.net/journal/2007/03/21/technical-stuff hacking/TechnicalStuff@http://paul.luon.net/journal hackingdebian-planetdebianrubyjournalopenidluonkoditoj Paul van Tilburg 2007-03-21T00:00:00+01:00 <h3>Hobix</h3> <p>There were some issues concerning <a href="http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hobix/">Hobix</a> and the new <a href="http://ruby-lang.org/">Ruby</a> (1.8.6) that entered Sid recently. I&#8217;ve solved the problem, as you can see, and uploaded a Subversion snapshot <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hobix.html">package</a> to experimental.</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> It seems that <code>hobix 0.5~svn20070319-1</code> accidently was uploaded without share data. This was spotted and fixed by Arnaud, thanks! A new version (<code>0.5~svn20070319-2</code>) is on its way to experimental!</p> <h3>Ruby D-Bus</h3> <p>A few weeks ago I wrote to Arnaud Cornet about the fact that it is quite amazing that there is <em>no</em> up-to-date implementation of <a href="http://dbus.freedesktop.org/">D-Bus</a> for Ruby <em>at all</em> after such a long time. This resulted a few days ago in our <a href="https://trac.luon.net/ruby-dbus">Ruby D-Bus</a> project. Some stuff is working already, quite low-level still, but really nice. I&#8217;m looking forward to designing the high-level <acronym title="Application Program Interface"><span class="caps">API</span></acronym>.</p> <p>I found out that other people had the same thoughts as us and also started to work on an implementations on their own without telling anyone. So, it seems there are three implementions now (as far as I know) that all have specific features working. I hope we can merge everything into one project. We&#8217;ll see what happens&#8230;</p> <h3>OpenID</h3> <p>I have taken some interest into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openid">OpenID</a>, having to register some accounts on arbitrary forums. I ran into the fact that <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org/">Rails</a> recently got OpenID support and that support for phpBB is coming up, which is nice. Finally it could be over with all the logins and all the password. At the moment I haven&#8217;t found a statisfactory identity provider yet, so I started working on my own service. <a href="http://www.openidenabled.com/openid/libraries/ruby">Ruby OpenID</a> has an example server implementation which I am working on to become <span class="caps">FLOIDS</span>: the Free Luon OpenID Service.</p> <h3>Koditoj</h3> <p>Recently, I inventoried all the programs I authored or co-authored in the past 8 years. There is some stuff in there that maybe deserves a second life or at least some description. So, in a series of posts that I&#8217;ll call &#8216;Koditoj&#8217; (free translatable from Esperanto to &#8216;things that have been coded&#8217;) I want to go over all these programs and libraries and give them some attention. More to come soon&#8230;</p>