Intel has put great effort to put complete open-source drivers into recent kernels for its devices. Only device that is clearly missing there is GMA500 (aka Poulsbo, aka US15 chipset, aka Atom Z5xx family). This is understood as it does relay on Imagination Technologies PowerVR core licensed out by Intel to produce GMA500, so most of the driver parts cannot go open-source as it would imply of violation of some agreement between ImgTec and Intel.
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Seems it is very hard to spread the news about CMSity around the world, and acquire some user base of this project. Till now I did few commercial deployments of CMSity, however the cmsity.com page hits look really miserable.

I wrote mails to many CMS magazines asking to drop a note about my project. However only two of them replied and posted something on their sites about CMSity. So I still miss some more reviews that can put a breathe into the project. But it seems my mails are ignored by majority of big CMS related sites making very hard to promote new project like CMSity nowadays.

Since I believe this software presents great value and outperforms other popular solutions I consider releasing it as open-source, however probably not GPL but some license that will force the code to stay by the author (me), deny all the forks, making all community changes happen to be included in the source code base.

Open-source is a great idea, but I have seen too many projects that were just bloated, forked and spoiled by masses of developers that were just about put something of themselves in the project regardless of quality of the included changes, missing overall sense and directions of the project itself. That is why I decided to keep the code closed initially, while giving the licenses for free, but it seems non-open source project are just kicked out of the focus today, and releasing the source code is a “must” to gain the momentum.

I was rather sceptic to Haml once I have first time read about it. But after recently playing a while with it I can frankly express that it is simply outstanding template engine for Ruby. What I miss about Haml is some seamless integration with some i18n framework (gem).

So I decided to create Haml “mod” that uses GetText (FastGettext alternatively) to automagically translate static texts from Haml templates during precompilation stage. So something that you don’t see and you don’t need to worry about. Read the rest of this entry »

Updates

1. It uses now click menu instead of keystroke “System Events” command, because in some cases when you had this script assigned to shortcut that used Ctrl or Shift modifiers, those modifiers were sent together with Cmd to “Terminal” producing invalid behavior.
2. It waits 0.5 second when window is busy just in case Terminal.app was not running and it is just loading the shell which makes it busy for short while too. Fixes incorrect behavior of opening extra tab when Terminal.app was not running.

If you ever wondered how to open specified path in new tab of Terminal.app or reuse current one if it is not busy (running a command), here’s a script you may use:

tell application "Terminal"

    activate

    set windowCount to (count of the windows)

    -- Terminal may be just launched loading the shell, wait a bit
    if windowCount is greater than 0 and first window is busy then
        delay 0.5
    end

    -- Still busy / no windows? open new tab
    if windowCount is greater than 0 and first window is busy or windowCount is 0 then
        tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal"
            click first menu item of first menu of second menu item of first menu of third menu bar item of first menu bar
        end tell
    end if

    do script "cd #{e_as(e_sh(dir))}" in first window

end tell

Where #{e_as(e_sh(dir))} is your desired folder. This is modified chunk of TextMate’s command script found at Mark Eli Kalderon’s Blog. Thanks Mark!

Note: Mark’s TextMate command script does not open anything when Terminal.app has no windows or it is not running.

Today I have paid a visit at OpenCoffee organized by IT Small Business Alliance at Filmowa Cafe (just inside Kino Kijów). That wasn’t big effort for me since I am just living about 15mins by walk from there. I was surprised to meet many great folks involved in Kraków’s local IT business and some representatives of broader companies/organizations like Cisco and TechCrunch.

I am running my own business for 3 years now, however last 2.5 years I was working actually for just 3 clients that were keeping me alive, most of them were foreign companies. So I wasn’t particularly interested what is going on in Kraków where I am living for past 10 years. Since lately one of my major clients is going to shut down his business I decided to try myself at the local market – as so called “freelancer” seeking for the projects.

I must confess it does happen a lot in Kraków nowadays. Wow… I am pretty happy I have chosen to stay in such a great city. Keeping my finger crossed for Mike Butcher having TechCrunch conference done here in Kraków.