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Beagle Newsletter Issue 6 - 24 January 2005
Welcome to another edition of the Beagle Newsletter. If you're new to the project you can read up about it on our website.
Hacking
Log Viewer
Lukas Lipka created the long awaited IM log viewer for Beagle. This is launched when you click on a IM Log result in Best. It allows you to browse other log's in a very convenient fashion. The log viewer is based on Tuomas Kuosmanen's design.
Memory Usage
Jon Trowbridge has been using a memory profiler on Beagle and removed many unnecessary memory allocations. This is solving one of the most discussed problems with Beagle, in its massive memory usage. The profiler that is being used is the experimental mono memory profiler by Ben Maurer.
Liferea Backend
Carl-Emil Lagerstedt wrote a backend to index RSS feeds used by the Liferea feed reader. Beagle now indexes RSS feeds from both Liferea and Blam.
Web Service Interface
Vijay K. Nanjundaswamy has been working on a web service interface for Beagle. The interface can query beagled via SOAP and display results in a web browser. Check it out here.
Application Launchers
Joe Gasiorek added a backend to Beagle to index application launchers.
Project
Press
Beagle was awarded the "Most Anticipated Application" award for 2004 from Ars Technica
Fredrik Hedberg's work on a Windows version of Beagle got mentioned on Slashdot
You can see a screenshot here. Grab the latest version here. Learn about how to get it running in this thread.
Demo's
Nat Friedman created some very cool flash movies demoing various aspects of Beagle. Watch how easy it is to create a Beagle Client or take advantage of inotify. View them at here.
Packaging
This month saw new releases of gmime (2.1.10) and D-BUS (0.23). With this new convenience it is no longer a requirement to get any code from GNOME CVS or Mono svn. Joe Shaw has updated the Wiki with the latest software requirements.
Disappearing Icons
Joe Shaw tracked down one of the most mysterious problems with Beagle last week. Due to a feature in Mozilla-1.7, the way Best referenced images was not allowed. This problem has been fixed in CVS.
As always if you have any input to how the next Beagle Newsletter should be distributed or what should go in it please email Joe Gasiorek at joe gasiorek@gmail.com
