If you like what I am doing, please donate to this project (tbrooke is my girlfriends name).
liqbase is a graphical playground for the Nokia Internet Tablets running Maemo.
written by Gary Birkett (lcuk on #maemo)
with extensive help and support and direct input from:
KotCzarny, crashanddie, z4chh, qwerty12, javispedro, keesj
special thanks to my friends, users and beta testers for all their advice and help:
sampppa, stskeeps, timsamof, lardman, qole, jaffa, luovanto, pupnik, vdvsx, xnt14, b-man, truejournals, melmoth, GeneralAntilles, rst38h, Thesandlord, justnick and a load of others.
Additional guidance and support given by the rest of the maemo.org community members.
liqbase bytesize rendering engine video.
I put together a really short video of the rendering engine as it stands in liqbase
it shows jumping into the new presentation viewer and the seriously impressive recursive jump!
Live internet sketching river
I have enabled live uploading of everything I am doing on my tablet within liqbase.
It shows the most recent entries first and includes sketches postcards photos screenshots.
Look at my live internet river
One Dot Zero
I was approached recently to help produce an interactive remote control for Karsten Schmidt, Sermad Buni and the guys at the one dot zero digital art festival which is running from the 9th to the 13th September at the bfi southbank in London. event info..
We had some challenges getting it started, but managed to include some kick ass interactions making use of the excellent components in the new Nokia n900 mobile computer.
It really is an adventure in motion, and I am proud to play my small part in this amazing display.
liqbase on the N900.
Whilst at onedotzero, i gave the first presentation showing liqbase running on the new Nokia N900
this device really opens the throttle and allows liqbase to operate at full speed!
Calendar
The idea behind the calendar is simple.
Just use it the same way you would a wall calendar.
There are no contacts, no flashy graphics or reminders or xml types.
Its just like the one you keep on the wall.
torch
my torch is a simple little program.
Keep it with you at all times, especially when camping.
Postcards
My framework is now allowing me to formulate my ideas and I am starting to en able to produce the applications I want.
I want to send them to many places.
Getting involved
I have created a large number of components within the liqbase playground.
However many of these are incomplete and in a prototype state.
I simply have not got the time or energy to create everything and account for every whim people have.
If you want to get involved, you can.
Everything in liqbase is a plugin, you can create multiple stand alone applications with the framework.
The torch for instance, was written in 30 minutes during a heated irc discussion.
Zach has kindly put together a getting started guide for creating a liqbase application.
http://blog.zachhabersang.com/?p=129
Of course, you could just pick up one of existing small liqbase packages (liqtorch,liqpostcard,liqcontrolpanel,onedotzero and more to come) and hack to your own design.
liqbase is built for variation, so go wild!
good luck with it, I hope you have as much fun coding and using my software as I have had developing it.
Packaging and integration assistance required. The current liqbase package on maemo.org extras-devel contains a severe crashable bug, but I cannot build the packages to cure this.
The bug has been fixed in the latest source files, stored on http://github.com/lcuk
Order from chaos.
I have been steadily building up the capabilities of the new framework.
The heavy coding process is starting to pay off now as I am seeing excellent results
Have a look for yourself here:
Please donate to this project if you like what you see, and of course vote for this video :)
Brave new world.
I have spent the last couple of months working towards curing some of the original limitations with liqbase.
Progress hasn't been as fast as I hoped mainly because I am still doing a fulltime day-job and partly because my fingers physically cannot type as fast as my mind works.
The progress so far has been described as breathtaking and I have left people speechless at what I have started to achieve.
Have a look for yourself here:
Please donate to this project if you like what you see, and of course vote for this video :)
I have recently been taken on by the amazing open source company Collabora to work on Maemo and open source code in general.
This open future began 09 November 2009 :)
