Development Update
Hey people - I’d like to introduce myself: My name is Duncan Campbell and I live in Sydney (Australia). I’ve been a developer for about 14 years, and have been hacking Cocoa for the last 18 months or so.
I’m the idiot “lucky guy” who has volunteered to help out with development on Proteus, and to try to get the ball rolling again with regards to new features, bug fixes etc.
I was only handed the source code a little over a week ago. It’s a bit of a crazy mess, and most of my time so far has been spent trying to figure it all out, and see how things work.
Things I have managed to accomplish so far:
- Proteus is now a real Universal binary.
- Fixed the nasty “processor goes up to 100% when idle” bug.
- Fixed the bug where the icons go all screwy on the toolbar on intel.
- Completely removed all eSellerate/Registration code.
- Updated all of the UI from old-school candy-stripe windows to Unified.
The good news: We’ll be releasing a “bleeding edge” build containing these updates at the end of this week.
As I say, things are quite a mess and some time needs to be spent cleaning up the project, and all it’s dependencies before the source code can be opened up and made public - so please bear with Tommy and myself - we promise to get everything up and running as fast as possible (we both have full-time day jobs).
Update: I’m finding I’m not nearly able to devote the time to Proteus development I should. If you are a Cocoa developer and can lend a hand, please get in contact with Tommy asap.
August 22nd, 2006 at 11:57 am
Wow, that’s quite an update! Nice one!
August 22nd, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Looking forward to seeing what can be done! I’m so tired of Mercury Messenger, and Adium is still lacking.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:22 am
I’m impressed! Unfortunately I’m not a Cocoa developer yet, my time is taken up with my university studies, and they don’t teach Objective-C/Cocoa but Java. Hopefully one day I’ll have the skill set to be able to contribute to projects like these, and even fulfill some ideas I have. Oh yeah I’m from Adelaide. And excellent work on the processor idling bug, it’s a killer on my laptop, and it means the when I leave my laptop on overnight the fans won’t keep spinning up and down every few minutes.
August 25th, 2006 at 10:03 am
Nooo! Is the update still going to be released if you can’t find the time? Hopefully it will be. I wish I knew how to develop in Cocoa so that I could put all my free time towards something that others would benefit from.
August 25th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
The update is ready to go and in Tommy’s hands - its up to him now