Blogs

As promised I am going to do a quick summery of the time I had at FOSDEM 2010.

FOSDEM itself

I thought the meet-up itself was very well organised, there were lots of well manned stands, including most of the big Linux distros, all of whom gave away free CDs of which I took full advantage, they will be very helpful as soon as I get some more time to work on Toucan 3 again as the more variations I can test it on the better!

I'm doing this as a blog post because I can use full HTML :) Recently, I discovered Firefox Personas. Because I have next to no life, I decided to make a Firefox Persona for PortableApps.com. Here's a mockup of what I got done:

If an antivirus program doesn't have a link in this list, also make sure you read the comments below; there are some helpful things there. I need to update the list.

Today someone came in to our live chat support with a false positive for Blender in McAfee. I couldn't find out how to report it. So when I finally found it, I decided to try investigating more vendors and listing links for them so that they can be put into the support pages.

The Help File

The help file is also undergoing, once again, major changes for version 3. Rather than integrating it into Toucan itself I have decided to split it out, into a separate pdf document.

Moving to CMake

Before releasing a version of Toucan on Linux the build system needed cleaning up. Rather than create projects on Windows and writing makefiles on Linux I decided to use a proper build system.

hey guys, just to let you all know, due to some circumstances I'm cutting my self off from the internet just for a little bit, I just have some personal issues that I have to fix and they can't fixed until I cut myself off of the internet, don't worry it's nothing serious but it's serious enough to affect my walk with God as a Christian.

The Command Line

The other main weak point in Toucan is the command line interface, mainly because it breaks, a lot. So whilst reworking the scripting system I also decided to redo the command line interface.

To take advantage of the new scripting system the new command line interface is a front end to the script system itself, for example to enter a script you do the following:

toucan --script="print(2 * 10)"

Introduction

So, I was going to write a speech, and I really like using Geany for all my writing needs. However, my spelling is horrendous. (Its a confirmed fact on IRC, ask just about anybody.) So, I needed spell check. How to go about it? Well, here we go:

1. Download the plugin package from here. A direct link to the package you need.

The first Blender Foundation release has hit our shores. It is Alpha 0 and from what I have read we will have an Alpha 2, Beta 2, Beta 3 and Beta 4 before a full release of 2.60 sometime mid to late next year.

As such I am already looking at the new file structure and the new .blog file for recent files. Definately requires me to update my launcher and at some point I will be considering some private tesing of the code.