Yak Shaving

Came across this picture (thanks Alex S) of me on stage at LUG Radio 2007:

Myself and Becky Hogg of ORG

I had mentioned the previous night to Stuart Langridge I had some experience regarding DRM. While minding my own business watching Nat Friedman’s talk in the other room I got asked to come up on stage and answer a few questions. Come to think of it I never found out how Nat’s talk finished…

Well yeah not immediately great.

I thought I`d start small by synchronizing Tomboy with a directory. Fail. Running Conduit from the command line revealed the answer – Incompatible Tomboy version. Aha thinks me I`ll upgrade Tomboy – there is bug about the version thing logged on launchpad currently. So, download the current version 0.11 the bleeding edge development one.

Building it fails everytime complaining with: Mono.Cairo.dll missing. Now I wasn’t able to fix this on purpose. I ran

sudo apt-get build-dep tomboy

Which did the right thing fixing the strange missing but installed dll.

Back to Conduit. Now running the spanking new Tomboy I fired up the sync again.

Fail.

Same error this time. So its not Tomboy thats the issue. So as I`m planning to hack around with this anyway I checkout the latest code from subversion using the following instructions: Build Instructions. As its prebuilt from subversion you can just run it without compiling. It all works a treat now. Now for playing.

Thanks John Carr for your speech at LUG Radio for pointing this cool bit of kit out.

Been back from LUG Radio while now ( I dare I`ll right an article soon enough, there was pretty of material). I was impressed with Conduit and Telepathy for Gnome so I`ve decided to have a play. I`ll post what I do as and when, DBUS looks very interesting…