Zachowe

I launched the official website for Zuse yesterday! Check it out.

But even though Zuse isn’t dead, I am looking for someone to help out since I’m very busy.

To apply, just post your application (not too lengthy) in a comment. You should know a very good amount of C# and some C++. If not, I can help a partner to get a jump start if so needed too. But you MUST have some programming background.

And of course, they’d get a percentage of the donations I’ve been getting.

The problem with the current Zuse 2.0 beta 3 is that Zuse does the scrobbling. Soon I should be able to use Zuse to interact with the actual Last.fm client fixing the problems everyone has been having with Zuse on 64-bit Windows Vista. Keep in mind this will be an experiment. Hopefully everything goes okay and you will still need the .NET Framework to use it. I have tried to write it completely in C++ using the existing code from Last.fm plugins. I am going to try to port this to C# and we’ll see how it goes. It shouldn’t be too hard but I have lots going on with school. That’s all for now.

Donations are still appreciated. So far only one person has donated. I’m thinking of giving a couple incentives to donate. Zuse will always be free and open source but the people who donate should be especially rewarded. Maybe next version donators will get an early release of Zuse just for them. I will talk more about this in my next post.

As many of you already know, Zuse 2 has arrived. It now scrobbles tracks directly from the software. One draw back is that the Zune device scrobbling is no longer supported. We are still in beta however of Zuse 2.0 so report all bugs to the Google Code page.

Thanks for your support and donations are much appriciated.

I’ve been planning and deciding the best way to implement it this time. With scrobbling directly from the software, I decided to skip Zuse 1.2 final which was going to be next. But I thought I might change things up a bit.

I’m also going to announce I am no longer a Zune user. The Zune is great device but it’s not for me. I’m a iPod guy originally and that’s the way I plan to stay for a while. That being said, I still will continue development on Zuse like I just said above.

Stay tuned.

Every time I have used KDE 4.x, it seems I spend all my time playing with my desktop trying to make it look okay. This comes before I do all my coding, listening to music, and web browsing.

Next time biggest consumer is navigating through the menu. It almost feels like the developers we out to annoy the hell out of me when I use them. Now I know they have improved heavily from 4.0 to 4.1 but it’s still sloppy and definitely not as neat as GNOME.

Another thing for me with KDE4 is the right click context menus. Honestly what were they thinking not to have dividers to separate the menu items? I constantly find myself removing a panel. While again it’s better in KDE 4.1, I still find I have troubles.

When I used Linux back in the day, maybe like four or five years ago, I never would have thought of going with GNOME. Now for me it’s the easiest environment to use. It’s the only one I do use.

Don’t get me wrong, I think KDE4 is a great leap for the Linux world. I’m just not sure if it’s ever going to be the most productive environment for anyone. Maybe if it matures a little bit more? Does anyone have the same idea or am I alone here?