I finally found a bit of time to hack a bit on the evolution spambayes plugin, and there is now a version 0.1.6 ready, which works with Evolution 2.12.

Hopefully this will hopefully make Tom Arnold and Jim Rorie happy, or at least give them a reason to try _yet again_ to see if they can get it to work.

There is a new package in my DebianRepository for those fortunate enough to be running Debian (should also work on Ubuntu).

I am not reporting anything on company wise so far, other than: We're working on it!

Ok, this time i actually have something to tell.

I've quit my job!

Oh yeah, scary stuff!

I have a former colleague who have been working on a project that he has been wanting do to for a long time, actually he has worked for a long time on the project and he is now ready to make the jump to "hey look at me! i'm a company".

Well since he is going to start a company he, of course, need employees, and guess what, i am the first one!

So from January the first (preferably the second to avoid too many hangovers) i am going full-time with Sequanto.

We will start with focusing on creating the best damn system testing tool on the face of this planet (and maybe others), we are both tool-guys so there should plenty of opportunity for making a terrific tool.

This might mean that this blog will be focusing more on testing, but i am sure that you can live with that, _any_ focus is probably a good thing at this point.

Oh, and merry christmas to those celebrating it.

(And if you need some testing software for embedded devices or otherwise, don't hesitate to write me)

As a little "in between" i am posting some of the code if have lying around, the first one is some code from my time at the university, more specifically from the game programming days. I am not sure that i have posted this before, which really is a shame, the only thing i could find about it is this pre C++ then Java post.

The game is called Temporal Wars and is a turn-based strategy game, all graphics and sounds were Made by Nerds(tm), needless to say i did some sound effects - my graphics skills have already been ridiculed on this site before.

The code (plus graphics and sounds) are available from here: http://dev.infonet.dk/~rto/bzr/temporalwars/ using Bazaar.

There is the start of some debian packaging in there, but it doesn't work at the moment (patches please?), and there is no win32 setup at the moment.

The next piece of code is a little elisp to make rcirc, the build-in IRC client in Emacs, work better with the modern desktop. More specifically it will notify you using the notify framework (windows users will call this "popup balloon) when someone writes a message to you (or including your username really).

If you have not tried the rcirc client yet - you really should!. It does just what is supposed, and you can go a long way even if the only IRC command you know is /join #channel.

(add-hook 'rcirc-print-hooks 'my-rcirc-print-hook)
(defun my-rcirc-print-hook (process sender response target text)
  (when (and (string-match (rcirc-nick process) text)
	     (not (string= (rcirc-nick process) sender))
	     (not (string= (rcirc-server-name process) sender)))
    (start-process "notify" nil "notify-send" (concat "rcirc: " sender) text)))

On Debian you need to install the libnotify-bin package to get the notify-send tool.

Oh, and if someone has my leather gloves that i left down at the pub, i would really like them back.

Gah! Second pair of nice black leather gloves i've lost down there. Now i just don't buy leather gloves anymore!

So the release was not really _that_ tested yet, so a new release is available (0.1.4) containing a minor but crucial fix.

I'm of to work, see ya!

No, i'm not dead yet, i've just been enjoying the summer so much (when it decided to show its face here in Denmark).

Actually i have been enjoying the summer so much that i have started biking to work, it's though getting of your ass after you have been sitting on it from the day you got your C64 and until now. But it is starting to get a bit easier, and it is actually quite enjoyable to ride a bike (note the use of the over-vague word "quite").

Oh, and yeah, it's ok to laugh at the fat geek on his bike.

The reason for this post is that i have made a new release to the Evolution SpamBayes Plugin, directly from the debian/changelog:

evolution-plugin-spambayes (0.1.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * The plugin now maintain its own "seen messages" database, this allows
    the plugin to tell whether or not it needs to untrain before training
    on a message.
  
  * It also allows the plugin to finally support the "Train on all
    messages" option, where all messages which the plugin is told to
    score, is automatically trained as either spam or ham (unsure messages
    are still just scored).

 -- Rasmus Toftdahl Olesen <halfdan@halfdans.net>  Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:35:44 +0200

This makes it pretty much feature complete, and a 2.0 release could be warranted after some weeks of testing. So please step up if you are up to it, so far i haven't lost any mail by using it - Evolution just ignores the plugin if it croaks.

I also did a few hours of hacking on the BzrWeb project - to get it to work with shared repositories, so now my Bazaar2 branches are browsable.

I think that is it for now, oh, and at work i am now sitting in the mothership where i will be working on our AIS system, interesting stuff, lots of cool C++. But i am definaetely up for working more as a consultant again in the future, especially if i can get sent somewhere crazy like Ireland, New Zealand or some other exotic place.

Ok, maybe Ireland isn't that exotic, but they have loads of folk music, interesting people and Guiness - now if only they could brew a decent peated whisky...