MEEBEY.NET the Project

Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Yeah, it's that time of year again, I am writing a blog post . As some of you have probably already noticed I managed to get Smuxi 0.7 released a few days ago. Almost all of my Xmas vacation I was hacking on Smuxi. This is the best Smuxi release ever (guaranteed!). The most notable features I implemented in the 0.7 release are: Twitter support, handling for high latency networks (UTMS, WLAN, busy DSL) and an improved IRC experience through tweaks such as splitting oversized messages and new context menus. This release also contains very nice contributions from David Paleino [2] and Clément Bourgeois. Both joined the hackfest during my Xmas vacation and made the hacking sessions on Smuxi even more fun. Thanks for that guys! Here you can find a full list of changes.

As everbody likes screenshots and as screenshots say a thousand words, here they are:

Quick Connect

Twitter

User Menu

Which direction will Smuxi head in after the 0.7 release? For the 0.8 release, I plan to focus on making the IRC support feature complete. That means we will get DCC, SSL, IPv6 and logging support. Nothing of that sounds very special but I am already investigating how Smuxi can be integrated with the promising new Zeitgeist project. I interviewed one of the developers for potential communication between Smuxi and Zeitgeist.

Last but not least, I want to announce that I will be attending FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels. I also will give a talk about Smuxi there, scheduled on 2010-02-07 at 16:30. If you want to have a chat, a beer, do some GPG keysigning, or ask me any questions, I am available

PS: If you want more updates than once per year, just follow me on Twitter

You are wondering if forgot my password of the blogging account? No I didn't, I just don't have much time to do blogging. I try to invest more time to just do things than to talk about what I have done or will do. Blogging needs time: you need a topic to blog about, you have to login, make a point, do spellchecking and so on. The result: you see about every 3 months a blog post from me. Don't get me wrong, I am doing geeky stuff every single day (except when I am on vacation maybe, but that was how many years ago, eh?).
Micro-Blogging to the rescue! You probably know micro-blogging ala twitter.com already, but for me thats something new You just post a single message with no more than 140 characters and you are done. So if you want to follow my activities, feel free to subscribe to my micro-blog found on twitter: http://twitter.com/meebey

Smuxi is doing nice progress now, I made 2 important changes to archive constant progress: switch from Subversion to Git and with that switch from Trac to Redmine. Now everything is kept in feature-branches and I can switch more often between features and bug fixes without messing all up. More details about this can be found in this Smuxi blog post.

Here some news from the Smuxi front. As you might already know Smuxi 0.6.2 was released. With the 0.6.2 release we have now German translation and Smuxi packages in Debian (Unstable) (as promised), Ubuntu (intrepid) and ArchLinux (AUR)! Now just OpenSUSE, Foresight Linux, Gentoo and Fedora are missing for world domination^W^Wconvering the major Linux distributions.

The upcoming 0.6.3 release will contain Spanish (thanks to Juan Miguel Carrero), French (thanks to Clement BOURGEOIS) and British English (thanks to Ryan Smith-Evans) translations. Besides bugfixes this release will contain the famous tray icon support and some other goodies! The release should be ready by this weekend... stay tuned.

I made a minor bugfix + minor feature release of Smux together with packages for Debian, Ubuntu and Windows. Big thanks for all the feedback I received from the users!
But at the same time I seek possible Smuxi contributors for things like artwork (logo, icons, theming, etc), translations, package maintainers for Linux distributions (OpenSUSE, Gentoo, ArchLinux, ForeSight, etc), patches, frontend and protocol developers are very welcomed and wanted
If you are interested in helping the project in any way, just join #smuxi on irc.oftc.net

Back to the topic, here are the release notes of Smuxi 0.6.1 and the downloads.

Just in time, at the end of my 3 week vacation, I released the first public version of smuxi!

For people who don't know smuxi yet: I have been developing over the last 3 years an IRC client that fits the needs I could not satisfy with irssi. I was using irssi over 4 years and it's the best the IRC client I used so far. Most annoying was that it didn't integrate at all into my desktop experience (such as mouse / clipboard / theming / highlight handling). Thus irssi inspired lots of features and commands seen in smuxi.

So here it comes, a flexible cross-platform open-source IRC client for the GNOME desktop, in action:
   

Smuxi is built using a great software development stack, composed of: C# / Mono, GTK{+,#} / GNOME(#) and MonoDevelop.

Interested in using or contributing to smuxi?
Head over to the official release announcement on the smuxi project website.

For the Debian users and developers among us:
Debian packages for smuxi are not available yet, but will be very soon.