I spent the whole day at home, coding ! Actually coding and preparing stuff for a release. That included working with the installer and looking into Wordpress features to make pages for static content. Basically a page for a project, separated from the blogs posts such as this one.
With those changes came also a change to the site URLs. Gone is the /?page_id=111. In it’s place there are now friendly names.
What I’m trying to release is dsharingu. The page is up, the software can’t be downloaded yet !!! It would probably be already up for download if I didn’t need to spend those extra hours to document things etc etc… but a software by itself doesn’t have much use.
Yesterday night, after a small Christmas dinner, I also worked on yet another compression scheme do be used for DSharingu. I basically put aside the HSV concept for a future better use (video-chat) and went for a simpler and faster system. The new scheme is inspired by systems such as ST3C. Also somewhat similar to BTC (Block Truncation Coding). But really, all compression schemes start to look alike after a while !
Anyhow. The basic compression is pretty much decided for the time being. Before the release however I want to modify the protocol a bit.. actually putting in place a minimal system that has a concept of protocol revision, to avoid weird crashes between different releases of the same program.

I want to hurry up, but I also have a lot to do. Tomorrow I’ll continue. I hope that in a few days I can finally release something… if anything, just to release it and see how it goes from there !

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Posted by Davide Pasca in Image-processing, Programming, Diary