torstai 25. kesäkuuta 2009

Long time no post. We had a frantic sprint planning session last week, and the result was that we ended up dumping PokyLinux and moved to moblin!

maanantai 15. kesäkuuta 2009

Voila! There it is. We're five days into our first sprint (the first sprint is much shorter than normally, for several reasons), and we've pretty much met all our requirements already. "Hello World!" has been touted loud and clear on many a qemu-screen, and all is advancing well!

The above figure illustrates the current architecture draft. In many ways the system needs to be reconsidered, but essentially the architecture is final.

One interesting feature of the architecture (not shown on the screen) is an application lifecycle model, which is built into the base class of all apps on the platform. This should make work easier for the developer.

perjantai 5. kesäkuuta 2009

1st Sprint And the Spirits are High!

Hello World!
Those are precisely the words our new mobile linux platform should be able to say after this first sprint. Its not that we haven't done that before, but its just that a new project with new requirements and a whole new bunch of people needs a starting point.

A little history: we had a project back in 2007 that created a mobile Linux platform with several applications (DVD-H tv app, email, SMS, browser, dialer/GSM, etc.) but somehow the results just evaporated into the air. A lot of good work was done, but it was not really leveraged. We are now set to change that!

After 6 months, we're going to have a mind-blowing GUI with all the services running that a mobile phone can need. All this will be done on top of a highly portable and modular UI/services platform that will catch the attention of the world.

My name is Mikael Laine, and I'm the chief architect of this secrect project. I'll be letting you in on how everything advances, with screenshots and links to various projects we use and/or modify to our needs.