http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9112657/posts/summarySat, 03 Feb 2007 16:58:31 +0000http://hydranode.com/blog/Alo SarvBlogger115http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9112657/posts/summary/115797061970675350Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:19:00 +00002006-09-11T13:30:19.753+03:00anonymous commented: After that much work done, I cannot believe this will stop here. If the project is not finished, Madcat, was a waste of time. Define finished please. I have created generic cross-platform P2P client framework/API, and two proof-of-concept modules; I have created graphical user interface, an extendable IPC mechanism and much more. Hydranode was meant to attract a lot of http://hydranode.com/blog/2006/09/when-is-software-project-finished.htmlAlo Sarvhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/9112657/posts/summary/115617977760751090Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:51:00 +00002006-08-21T20:02:57.640+03:00I was putting together my CV the other day, and noticed an interesting pattern. Over the last 4-5 years, I have done database programming for companies for 2-3 month periods, and then 6-12-month periods of OSS/P2P development; and after that again couple months of database development. This pattern comes from obvious reasons - OSS/P2P development doesn't pay bills, so after a while the finacies http://hydranode.com/blog/2006/08/status-update.htmlAlo Sarvhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/9112657/posts/summary/115330197205835449Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:25:00 +00002006-07-19T12:39:32.106+03:00It's been quite a while since the last blog post, so I figured it's time to update the status of things and ensure that I'm still around and kicking. What's going on currently is that I'm heavily overbooked with projects; the database project I took a while ago had some delays getting started (actual development started on 15th this month), and I'm also trying to get the entire project (http://hydranode.com/blog/2006/07/busy-busy-busy-busy.htmlAlo Sarvhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/9112657/posts/summary/115212424277989732Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:25:00 +00002006-07-05T21:30:42.816+03:00As the bounty payment for this module was completed yesterday, today development started on the module. Today also the first version of the module was checked into SVN, containing about 350 lines of code; it is capable of importing ed2k downloads from MLDonkey to Hydranode; no files rehashing is needed (this is different from current eMule import support, which forces files to be rehashed). It http://hydranode.com/blog/2006/07/mldonkey-import-module-experimental.htmlAlo Sarvhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/9112657/posts/summary/115203286151325307Tue, 04 Jul 2006 17:03:00 +00002006-07-04T20:07:43.026+03:00A few weeks ago I wrote up a public memo to Hydranode developers (both current and future) about Hydranode User Experience. Since the document got very positive feedback from people of very different backgrounds, I decided to make it available publically. It's a short read, about 8 A4 pages, so grab a cup of tea (or coffee) and enjoy. Comments welcome, as always. Hydranode User Experience (MS http://hydranode.com/blog/2006/07/hydranode-user-experience.htmlAlo Sarvhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/9112657/posts/summary/115158076831190023Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:15:00 +00002006-06-29T14:42:46.660+03:00...a viable solution for funding open source development? As I mentioned about a week ago, I'm taking on a medium-sized database project for development to generate some income; this naturally drops Hydranode development to near the bottom of my activity listings; however, this gave me an idea. There has been discussions about "donate-based bounties" since last summer already, and the topic has http://hydranode.com/blog/2006/06/bounty-based-development-model.htmlAlo Sarvhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/9112657/posts/summary/115109585396643845Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:40:00 +00002006-06-23T23:50:54.006+03:00First of all, I finally got internet at home again, so I'm online 24/7 again, which means development can resume properly now. One thing that got done during past few days was an experimental installer. After a lengthy search for the 'best installer system', I finally settled on NSIS (Nullsoft installer system) for the time being. An experimental installer is available for previewing/testing http://hydranode.com/blog/2006/06/experimental-installer.htmlAlo Sarvhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/9112657/posts/summary/115058004589624407Sat, 17 Jun 2006 21:22:00 +00002006-06-18T14:35:55.596+03:00There has been some very interesting discussion with gcostanza in our forums regarding Hydranode Web Interface. From the looks of it, we'll develop a cutting-edge web interface based on cutting-edge technologies - JSON-RPC-based protocol over HTTP, Dojo Toolkit for the actual interface and eventually COMET for real-time updates. Estimated time of completition - autumn/winter 2006. Current status http://hydranode.com/blog/2006/06/discussions-about-hydranode-web.htmlAlo Sarvhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/9112657/posts/summary/115009976510822326Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:00:00 +00002006-06-12T11:09:25.156+03:00I checked in the tray-icon code to SVN repository yesterday; tested on Windows and Linux (Ubuntu/Gnome) and seems to be working well. Currently only the 'icon' with a minimal menu is implemented, for testing purposes. It "seems" to be working on Windows as well, but there seems to be something heavily wrong with my Windows development setup currently - as I mentioned before, Mingw GUI builds are http://hydranode.com/blog/2006/06/drafting-new-website-fighting-with-dev.htmlAlo Sarvhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/9112657/posts/summary/114985426128943359Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:48:00 +00002006-06-09T14:57:41.380+03:00I've been further experimenting with different ad placements on the website and different configurations. I'm trying to determine the best non-intrusive locations and styles for the ads, so when we start building the new website (expected second half of this month), I have a knowledge base on the subject to work with. Another thing that was done over the past few days was finally enabling PayPalhttp://hydranode.com/blog/2006/06/working-on-installer-and-tray-icon.htmlAlo Sarvhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/9112657/posts/summary/114961623462870624Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:46:00 +00002006-06-06T20:50:34.660+03:00After such a long break, it takes a while to get into proper development-routine again. As I don't have internet at my new place yet, I'm using net-cafe, which further hinders development somewhat (the tendency to drink too much beer, that is :P). Anyway, I made a small update yesterday which allows reloading / updating ipfilter during runtime (via hnsh, "config set IPFilter newpath" only http://hydranode.com/blog/2006/06/getting-started-with-coding-again.htmlAlo Sarvhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/9112657/posts/summary/114936733714618282Sat, 03 Jun 2006 20:29:00 +00002006-06-03T23:42:21.356+03:00As scheduled, I'm returning from my scheduled vacation today and resuming Hydranode project development. However, since I moved to a new location during this vacation, there are some technical difficulties getting a broadband connection to my new place, which should take 1-2 weeks at most, so I'm somewhat limited in what I can do currently. There's an internet cafe near my new place, so using http://hydranode.com/blog/2006/06/back-from-vacation.htmlAlo Sarvhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/9112657/posts/summary/114675921739110572Thu, 04 May 2006 16:07:00 +00002006-05-04T19:13:37.423+03:00As per the 10-month schedule announced earlier, I'll be leaving for my summer vacation today. The vacation is one month long, during which I will be either completely, or almost completely, offline and unavailable except via e-mail. The development directions following the vacation, as they are planned currently, include integration of user feedback into the user interface and improvements for http://hydranode.com/blog/2006/05/vacation-until-june-4th.htmlAlo Sarvhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/9112657/posts/summary/114653340078911183Tue, 02 May 2006 01:20:00 +00002006-05-02T04:30:49.096+03:00Due to several outstanding issues in the original v0.3 release, I decided to release a small hotfix right away instead of waiting for next scheduled release. This hotfix doesn't bump version number, so it's still called v0.3, but instead revision number was added to the download archives. The original release was built from r2995, hotfix from r2998. Changes:Fixes torrents auto-categorization in http://hydranode.com/blog/2006/05/hydranode-v03-hotfix-r2998.htmlAlo Sarvhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/9112657/posts/summary/114624988447271364Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:20:00 +00002006-05-02T04:03:09.386+03:00 Three months have passed since the last release, and time has come again for a release. When the previous release's focus was on Bittorrent support, this time the focus was on Graphical User Interface. As such, engine updates have been minimal, but still include several important fixes, mostly on the Windows platform. Important engine updates include support for more than 64 open connections http://hydranode.com/blog/2006/04/hydranode-03-released.htmlAlo Sarv