This blog's not dead: more open source

While clearing out some stuff I came across an old blue laser I still had stored away from a time we did play some small lasershows, and I remembered the software I wrote to create those shows - it was my first Windows project that took nearly a hundred hours of work. Searching the net or references to this, I found it still mentioned in 2009, about ten years afterwards and eight years after the last change I made to it.

Reading that people want more features, but me not having a lot of time, I decided to use that for another experiment: trying out an online version control system other than SourceForge. I somehow remembered Launchpad and decided to submit the code there:

Heathcliff for Catweazle LC1 - Yoghurt Mixer

If you wonder about the name: Catweazle LC1 is the unit we used to direct the laser beam, and from ads in that time, LC1 was something about purposed healthy counterclockwise turning or something yoghurt acids. The output is by soundcard (usually for debugging) or better CD-Player (through .wav output) - the left and right channels control the x- and y-axis of the LC1 (or other similar units).

Continuing to play with Launchpad, the other open source project you'll have encountered here would be Collection Templater, which has gone version-controlled as well. Though while the later is published under the LGPL, Heathcliff even is GPL'ed, since it odoes not have as many dependencies (actually, the only ones are Toolbar2000 and Toolbar97, which I intend to get rid of as well at some point)!

Launchpad uses the Bazaar version control system, which I like more than cvs or svn at this time.