A version 1.0 stable of the Camino web browser has been released. It uses Gekko rendering motor, same as in Firefox, but the UI is written in glorious Cocoa. So I have switched over to it. The import of bookmarks was easy, just select import bookmarks under the file-meny and select Safari. I think I’m going to like this browser.
I just need to write rudimentary install instructions, finish the simple homepage for downloading and I’m in business. So any day now…
If you are in a hurry, mail me at info@jackenhack.com and ask if you can join the beta team.
I haven’t had time to update my blog for a while. The last couple of days has been spent trying to hunt down an annoying bug in my IAX client I’m writing. Sometimes when dialing in, my program would not get a notification from the Asterisk server that a call was in progress. So I have tested all sorts of things to try to find the bug. So today I finally used tcpdump to see exactly what kind of packets I got from the server. And the problem was that I connected from the inside of my firewall, out trough and back again! So it was just an miss-configuration, the program has been working all along. Isn’t the Darwin award coming up soon?
I’ve been hard at work on my IAX client software the last couple of days. I also have re-written a lot of the code. I decided early on that I wanted to have classical VU-meters to display the in and output volume. But I don’t want them to take to much CPU time. So I made a lot of optimizations on that code. So after the rewrite I managed to lower the CPU utilisation by half. And it’s fun to do programming in Cocoa, but the framework is hard to learn by the volume of it. But slowly I’m getting more comfortable.
Looks like I found a new text editor.