General Ramblings

Wood for the trees

Wood for the trees Originally uploaded by lhaig was trying to get both the near and the far in focus but failed. Although this still looks ok I think.

Passing Time

Architecture

Passing Time Originally uploaded by lhaig Wooden clock on the roof of the building at the Sandringham estate shops

Wooden Slats

Architecture

Wooden Slats Originally uploaded by lhaig Trying to create a good composition to learn more

In flight

Animals Birds

In flight Originally uploaded by lhaig This was a lucky shot while I was testing different filters on the 300mm lens

New Growth

Nature

New Growth Originally uploaded by lhaig A new shoot of a fern I found in a patch of sunlight

Light

Nature

Light Originally uploaded by lhaig I liked the way the sunlight shows all the lines in the leaves

I am about to embark on the epic journey which is Bongo packaging on the OpenSUSE Build Service. Now that I have succumbed to this task I wanted to establish a few things. In the Build service there are many many distributions available for build. Most of the distributions are very old. This leaves me with a choice as …

The Bongo Images will no longer be built on the rPath environment

General Bongo rPath Foresight Linux

For quite some time now we have been using the rPath rBuilder system to create images for the project. I have also used it for a few other projects. Things have been going quite well until someone at rPath decided that they needed to reinvent their web interface. Now I don't mind change and innovation as long as the …

Bongo 0.5.2 Package Released on rPath

General Bongo rPath vMware

The new Bongo package has been compiled, packaged and promoted so it should now be available to those running the images. This version has a number of fixes that were highlighted by the change to the cmake compiler. Thanks to the hard work of Alex and Patrick we are now in a position to say the the mail store is now …

Mono Goings On

General Bongo rPath Programming

I too have been watching the Mono debate with some interest as I am in the process of creating a Mono API for the Bongo Store. This interests me as I do not want to spend time working on something that will stop any distribution from running such a great app like Bongo. What worries me more is the character …