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Nokia Rocks happened and here's the result....



First public performances of Disaster and RIP.  Starting at 25:00 is my John Entwhistle impression :-)

[Video] THE DIGITAL STORY OF NATIVITY - ( or Christmas 2.0 )

Funny, except we all know that Jesus used a Nokia...

[Video] THE DIGITAL STORY OF NATIVITY - ( or Christmas 2.0 )

M3

People ask me what I've been doing for the past few years, apart from "inventing the future" we've been researching and building a platform or infrastructure - known as Smart-M3* - for integrating, collecting, distributing and sharing information. Such a platform allows a user to integrate all their data and link it together in interesting ways and have it available to all their devices from PCs to mobile phones right down to sensors and other embedded devices.

We build on top of technologies such as RDF and the whole idea of Semantic Web within a "space-based" computing environment.

Click here for the Wikipedia article on Smart-M3 which also contains links to the academic articles etc, and the open source code for the core of the system can be found from Sourceforge.

*Smart-M3 has gone by a number of names an in some papers it is known as Sedvice or just M3.

Nokia N900, Maemo 5 & PySide

Just a few notes on installing PySide for Maemo5 on the Nokia N900.

Firstly, go to PySide's download pages and note down the locations of the repsitory whichi needs to be either entered in using Maemo's application manager or by editing the sources.list. The repository is:

deb http://www.pyside.org/apt/maemo-armel /

If you decided to do this the hard (or easier) way then ssh into the device from something with a real keyboard to make like easier first. Switch to root as using the root command and then cd /etc/apt.  You'll find sources.list there, however on mine this is empty and has file size of 0. The file I needed to edit was in the sources.list.d directory and called  hildon-application-manager.list.   Back-up this file  first (usual caveat about being root!) then edit it using vi (not emacs!) and add the above repsitory address to it.

Save that file, cd to some safe place :-) thne run:

apt-get update 

If all goes well then DO NOT run apt-get install pyside-gui otherwise you'll get errors from trying to run a Qt app in python. You need to enter the following. 

apt-get install pyside-qt4-gui 

If you, like me, got dependency errors for libboost-python, pyside-core and pyside-base, then the following worked for me: Add  

deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/ fremantle free non-free 

to the hildon-application-manager-list or sources.list as you see fit. Re run apt-get update and then install pyside-qt4-gui as described above.

You can then get the PySide examples and the source tree on-line with option for download as a tar.gz file.

Nokia and OpenSource

How Nokia Learned to Love Openness 

Last week I was writing about the Mozilla European developers conference, and the palpable energy there.
I'm currently at the Qt Developer Days, surrounded by some 700 Qt hackers: since Qt is pronounced “cute” this makes for some amusing puns. But cute or not, there is a similar atmosphere that augurs well for the open source project. 

 This is really good stuff to hear, especially as I'm part of it (even Slashdot has good things to say!).

You heard it here first: N900, Linux, M3, Qt, Ovi ... almost as good as a Bugatti....