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Welcome to Sylnavi.net! My Website and Portfolio.
My name is Nick Meessen, I live in the Netherlands. I'm a 23 year old Male, born on the first of march in 1985.
In my free time I'm a Graphic/Web Designer, PHP & Java programmer, and some call me a Computer Guru ;)
For more extended personal information, visit my Author section. |
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I bought an Asus EEE PC 901 a few days ago, it features an Intel Atom CPU, 1 GB of RAM, 4 Gb and a 8 Gb SSD drives, it's 9". Multi touch track pad and an Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics chip. I'm not planning on playing games on it, so it doesn't matter much. Plus, the chip apparently is good enough to run even Leopard full features with all of it's fancy graphical effects so it's good enough :)
Instead of Leopard however, I'm running Fedora on it. I've tried Ubuntu Mobile, which is a great concept, but not meant for me. My girlfriend however is running it on her Asus EEE 4G 701, surprisingly it runs quite well. Fedora 9 had some small troubles on my netbook, I had to download a new kernel and transfer it via an SD card to get Ethernet working. Wifi was a a matter of compiling Ralink's drivers from their site. Which in the end all worked out and now it runs silky smooth.
The netbook is meant for school, so only Fedora will be on it. Because of this, I removed Fedora from my laptop. Which as of now I'm gonna use like a desktop. It's gone back to dual booting Windows XP and Mac OS X Leopard. Mac OS X because it manages my personal stuff better, photos/music/videos. For my iPod Touch it's a plus as well, and ofcourse jailbreaking. Windows XP I kinda need for all the games I started playing again. Eventually this laptop will be replaced by a real desktop as well, so I'm trying to get used to this idea now. It's a mess at the moment, I'm reorganizing all of my data over 3 devices. The laptop, the netbook and our NAS. It'll probably take a while again to get everything settled, but once done it's done.
In other news, Lars and I released our early alpha release of Omnivide. Also I've setup a domain and a full website for the project. Which is located at Omnivide.org. Lars is gonna finish up the Twitter plugin to version 1.0. Meanwhile I'll continue my work on the Messenger plugin, but I'm gonna put a bit more work into Omnivide itself. The early alpha had some minor annoyances, which are partially fixed by now already in our SVN repo. But there's still more to do.
I still have to fix our Plugin repository as well, but that can wait a little while. But the alpha release is coming soon :) |
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The project Jennifer, Lars and I started a while back has been replaced by a newer, bigger and better project. Omnivide. The previous one was called Distrovide, a mixture of Distribution / Divide. Because it was the idea that we would use the application to distribute links, code and information to each other via the app.
The newer project, Omnivide however takes another approach. The application itself is really lightweight, it only runs a small Plugin system. The plugins take care of the nice work. I've been working on a WLM/MSN Messenger plugin for it. So far it's working quite nice. Logging in/out works, contacts are loading, you can already send each other messages and all that. I'm working on Avatar support. Lars in the mean time has already almost completed his Twitter plugin. It looks great so far, we still have to setup a website and stuff. But that'll have to wait till we have our first release ready. We plan on implementing an AIM/AOL Messenger plugin, Last.FM client, probably a built-in media player so that it can scrobble to your Last.fm account. A plugin for Flickr and IRC are on the list as well, and more will be added later probably. We haven't decided on the rest yet. We won't make support for everything, since we don't use everything ourselves. But since it'll be open source people are free to write their own plugins for the app.
I already removed the Apps section on my Flickr account, since I feel it should be for photos only. I'll expand my portfolio sometime in a proper way. I still have screenshots of my OS's on there, but it's only 3-4 photos so it won't matter much. |
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As you may have noticed, I've added a little welcome thingy next to here. Makes the front page a little less empty.
I've also redone the Gallery, everything is properly loaded from my Flickr account. From multiple sets into one big nice overview.
My portfolio has some adjustments too, I removed the Design and Photography sections. Websites will suffice for design, since I don't do much graphics anymore. And I've got my Gallery and Flickr account for Photography. Besides, I'm gonna need space in the future to put up more programs/websites. I might create some Sets on my Flickr account which I'll link to here to house some more screenshots of each app. Since most of them are personal unreleased projects it's better to have some more screenshots I guess.
Speaking of Personal projects, the project Jennifer, Lars and I started a while back is maturing a bit. The initial version is almost complete, we've got a working Pastebin, Linkfeed (to exchange links), Chat, customizable PostIt's and our school schedule (which is being updated/checked by my VDS for changes via a cronjob and some custom scripts I wrote and mails us whenever it happens). Another reason to start making a proper place for screenshots.
Ah well, sometime. I'm kinda lost with all the things I can and need to do. I'm glad I managed to get this little revamp done anyway.
Oh, I also fixed some errors with XHTML validation. Journal content screwed it up ;) |
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School starts for real in a few days, I wonder how it'll go. We have our class schedule and as far as I can see we get a few specialized classes because we chose to be a programmer. The other class is gonna be a system administrator eventually. On one side I can't wait to get back to school, on the other.. I dunno. It looks like so much has changed. Ah well, just will have to wait until I actually had my first week of school.
On another note, together with my girl and a classmate of mine I started another little project for a small application written in Java. We had some nice ideas thrown together and are trying to make it work now. We managed to get some pretty nice things done so far, nothing really visible yet. But even so, it'll be a little app for us to use at school. We're gonna built in a Chat, Pastebin, Linkfeed, Shared Agenda, Shared Browser, wannabe PostIt's for notes and maybe more eventually. But it'll help a bit at school. We can easily share code, send links to each other, chat without disturbing others and more. Probably will be useful when we have to work on projects together and even if it isn't useful, at least I'll have something to work on.
I wanna continue with my game, sometime. But not yet, just don't feel like it at the moment. Besides that, we still have that IRC client we worked on with another classmate. But we all haven't done much in the summer break and probably lost interest a bit. Ah well, I know one thing. Can't wait to get some school assignments again :) |
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