As of yesterday, I added an image to the right sidebar that displays the last time the build was updated. This image is dynamic and is part of the update script, so it will always be accurate.

I noticed that my build has been freezing a lot the past few days. I'm using a build from yesterday, but regardless, it's froze quite a lot, such as when listening to music or recording stuff. Someone also said that some of the games are freezing up when exiting, which I confirmed. I'm hoping to look into the issues soon.

In addition to all of that, someone found my personal email address, and is spamming me. The emails are coming from various email address, but the X-Original-To header is the same for all of them - [removed]@babs.ca. [removed]@babs.ca is autoforwarding to my address, so I'm starting to think that someone I know gave my email out. babs.ca is Dreamhost hosted, like this domain, so I emailed Support about it.

Also, according to the Google Summer of Code timeline, on August 20, "Students upload code to code.google.com/hosting; mentors begin final evaluations; students begin final program evaluations". Based on that, I have a feeling that we should have USB support within the next week or two. While I haven't managed to test it, austriancoder has made quite a bit of progress on the USB software stack, though sending does not work. When I tested the patch as of yesterday, I got a data abort, though I may try again soon.

-Jack

I'm thinking of adding FS#7598 and FS#7585. 7598 fixes dircache support, and 7585 is a viewer for splitting wav files. I'm probably going to add 7598, but not sure about 7585. Anyone have thoughts?

I fixed a few problems that caused the site to not be valid XHTML, most of which were caused by mistakes I had made (forgot alt tags for images, and forgot to change 'id' to 'class' for two divs).

In addition, sometime next week my friend is transferring this domain to a new registrar, since he owes me a domain. Everything's set up and ready for the domain to be transferred, so once it is actually transferred, he'll push the domain to my account and then in 60 days or so I'll transfer it back to where the rest of my domains are. That way I can get two more years out of this domain :D. I don't think there will be any downtime, but there might be some minor dns troubles. If anyone finds that there is a problem, you'll have to use the other site for getting downloads.

I'm going to be busy the entire afternoon today, but I'm going to try to add a few things.

I also noticed someone finally made a comment :). I added a CAPTCHA that guests and new users need to enter, but I've disabled comment moderation, so once you register (or if you already have) you don't have any wait times before your comment appears.

-Jack

I'm going to be doing a few site updates, but it shouldn't cause any problems. I just finished replacing the two screenshots in the bottom right with a script to randomly fetch to from the MySQL database, so that it's a lot easier for me to add more, and so that nobody gets bored from seeing the same two. Adding that script caused a few problems, some causing the site to not even load, but I believe those errors are fixed now. If anyone experiences problems with the site not loading, PHP errors, etc., please let me know.

I'm also going to create a new 'block' on the right, to help keep it organized. I don't think that will cause problems, but if it does, the problem probably won't last long.

Ok, I talked to Jeton about two or three hours ago, and got a new logo. Apparently the Wordpress theme has a limit on the size of the logo, and was causing display problems. Aside from that, the site's ready

Since you're here, you already know the URL, chrisjs.com. The domain was inactive for a few months and I figured I'd use it.

There's an updated patch list, and there's a script on there for downloading old builds. There's also a 'mirror' of the Rockbox downloads, which you can see on the right, in the event of web server/domain problems.

In the bottom right, I started to replace the space for ads with screenshots, but that's not completely done. I'm planning to add more screenshots soon, and also might allow users to submit screenshots or something.

If anyone has any suggestions for the site, feel free to let me know.

Welcome, feel free to register, and comment

I'm going to be updating the mpegplayer seek/resume patch (FS#7487) in a few minutes. The way the comment is worded on the tracker, the mpegplayer patch may have a few things fixed, which could fix any problems people were having with viewing videos.

I've also noticed a few people have registered, and I haven't even made the site public yet. For those who were looking at the ABI thread, I'm probably going to go with the third logo, so I just need to get the image from Jeton. Oh, and I need to still make a page with the patch list...and add screenshots in the bottom right where ads should go....and make a contact form So that's four things I need to do, but once I get the logo, it shouldn't be long before I make the site public.

This probably won't affect much, but I'm going to be busy this Thursday night (Aug 16) and probably won't be on after 3:00 PM EDT (7:00 PM/19:00 UTC) that day.

EDIT: Actually, I changed my mind about updating the album art patch (FS#3045) as it looks like simply a resync, and the one that's in the build would have quite a few failed hunks if removed, most likely because it's "embedded" by the other patches.

EDIT2: Looks like I am updating the album art patch (FS#3045) as it was a sync due to an SVN update earlier - I had thought it was simply because of failed hunks from the previous patch. I'm testing the build now, and will have the updated copy in it in a minute.

In attempt to get FS#5900 working, I've added FS#5898.

UPDATE: FS#5899 has been in the build, and it was FS#5898 that was added. Sorry about the confusion.

There's quite a few problems with the build, so I figure I might as well clean it Should be finished in about an hour.

UPDATE: Well, it was a little over an hour, but it's done. Let me know if there's any problems.

This isn't directly build related, but since it happened on the build account I figure I might as well give a heads up. I just got an email from my web host complaining that I was in violation of the Terms of Service, by running netcat to talk to someone, since there'd be a chance it wouldn't be recorded (since messages via PM, AIM/MSN/etc can all be logged). Only problem is, I forgot about one line in the TOS: Any application that listens for inbound network connections are not permitted. Since netcat was listening for connections, I got an email. I deleted netcat (I had compiled from source) and sent them an email back, so I don't think there'll be a problem, but figured I'd mention it.

-Jack

Before I start, I've noticed a few people have found this (currently) hidden blog. At the moment, nobody knows about this blog yet, though searching on Google picked it up. I'm planning on telling a few people this afternoon, and in a few days will mention it on ABi. Also, I really need a theme better than the default on here. Not that the default is bad, it's just...default-ish. You don't need to register to comment, so feel free to make suggestions on what theme I should try using.
I've just started updating the patches. (And I just noticed I need new earbuds...one side died a week ago, and now the other side is starting to die.) So far, I've updated the sncviewer (FS#7432), mpegplayer(FS#7487), playlist converter (FS#6884), calendar plugin (which I noticed wasn't being added to the build) (FS#7076), custom WPS line (FS#5900), and html parser (FS#7114). I also removed the favorites plugin (FS#7486) since it's in SVN. In addition, the subtitles feature of mpegplayer (FS#7252) has been disabled temporarily due to compile issues.

I'm probably gonna have this site go live in a few hours.

-Jack