BlueZ 4.0

During the next BlueZ developers meeting that will be held in Helsink from 28th to 30th of May the so called 4.0 version should be released. As suggested by the bump of major version it will bring some major changes:

• eglib will no longer be maintained, meaning glib will became mandatory.
• D-Bus API changes including: property and dict usage, significantly simplified adapter object, remote devices objects and path architecture.
• Profiles support will change from services process to plugins modules.
• Duplicated code from services that managed L2CAP/RFCOMM/SCO connections will be moved to libbluetooth-glib along with convenient SDP queries functions.
• Drop of internal libhelper in favor of libgdus.
  

BlueZ GSoC projects

First time participant as organization BlueZ got 5 slots in GSoC 2008:

Integration of the Bluetooth Audio service with PulseAudio
mentor: me
student: João Paulo Rechi Vita

Joao Paulo and I will be working on it to bring a transparent support to
PulseAudio of both stereo (a2dp) and mono(hsp/hfp) bluetooth headsets.

PBAP - The Phonebook Client (PCE)
mentor: Claudio Takahasi
student: Larry de Oliveira Lira Junior

Larry and Claudio will be adding the client support of pbap to BlueZ.

bluez-python
mentor: Eduardo de Barros Lima
student: Li Dongyang

Eduardo and Li will be creating a hi-level/convenient python component
on top of dbus-python.

HFP Emulation
mentor: Vinicius Costa Gomes
student: Firas Omar Assaad

Vinicius and Firas will be working on making your computer look as a Bluetooth
Hands-Free device.

Extend obex-data-server with BIP support
mentor: Claudio Takahasi
student: Tadas Dailyda

Tadas is already know by BlueZ comunity for his work in last year summer of code,
this year he will be mentored by Claudio to extent obex-data-server.

BlueZ developers meeting

BlueZ meeting is about to begin (September 12) on Montpellier. We expect to have some good discussion about the future of bluez, including the early support of a2dp headset in audio service, private bus for services and future profile support like Sim Access Profile.

busy busy busy

I've been pretty busy lately. Release of tapioca-glib is almost done, also tapioca got a project page on garage.maemo.org.
We are planning to use it for module that apply to maemo, so tapioca-glib, documents and bora packages will be available using external repositories from sourceforge.

Bossa conference

Another thing that is making me very busy is the upcoming event bossa that will happen here in porto de galinhas during march 12 until 16. Plenty of good talks are planned as you can see in the site http://bossaconference.org/

English classes

Since my travel to germany back in 2003 I didnt study english, now its time to practice it again, of course the this blog will be improved too :D
My classes are on tuesday and thursday, so Im planning to post in these days to have a little feedback from it.

vim can be a real IDE

I was a fan of eclipse, real nice IDE for near every language, but vim proved to be faster and has even more features that eclipse does.
www.vim.org does have a plenty o useful scripts that can make vim a real rival to any IDE out there.

For those interested in using vim to code you may find interesting this one: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=273

If you would like to copy using ctrl+c and paste ctrl+v like any other editor, this can be the solution?
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1550

Opteron may be delayed some time

My opteron may take a little time to get in my hands, that the price the 3th world pay for every device that has a little more to offer :(