Well with Pronto done and deployed, we decided to have a bit of a fun day here at Peek…. hack day.
A few of us have disappeared into a warehouse in Brooklyn (Red Hook) where we are going to build some zany, hacked out version of the Peek software. It’ll probably be really unstable and ultimatley do nothing… but if something cool comes out of our (mis)adventures, maybe I’ll put it somewhere so a few of you can play around with it.
Mark B | 17-Apr-09 at 8:33 am | Permalink
Can’t wait to see what comes out of the hacking fun! Wishful thinking here, but be sure to post some source too – let the rest of us get in on the fun!
Carter | 17-Apr-09 at 1:34 pm | Permalink
I’m interested to see what pops up as well. I know I’d love a version of Peek that does Twitter. Someone make that.
dan | 17-Apr-09 at 4:33 pm | Permalink
Well as expected, we didn’t actually complete anything… though we almost finished up a cool little scratchpad app on the Peek that will integrate to a known internet scratchpad program.
Mark, its in no way wishful thinking. The reason we didn’t finish is we ultimately decided to spend a lot of time improving the build process in order to start to move towards opening things up. Ultimately its really what hampers us from opening it up – the build is extremely difficult to get setup right now for a new developer. We got far, so maybe we’ll have something in the not so distant future.
cramsey | 18-Apr-09 at 5:52 am | Permalink
I’m looking forward to the not so distant future when the peek is open up. “Power to the people”
I’ve even pulled out my New C Primer Plus Second Edition text book…It’s a little the cover is about to fall off and a few pages are loose and it has a nice musty smell.
BTW Would there be value to look at Objective-C for the peek OS? I don’t know much about it other then it’s used for the Mac OS and iPhone and the it looks like Objective-C 2.0 has some garbage collection capabilities. Just thought I put the idea out there since the Peek OS is getting close to a 2.0 release.
With that also I’m curious why C not Java? Java had the libraries for garbage collection and “network” awareness.
Ok even though this should be shorter than this? A couple more things. Any ideas about looking to impliment XMPP (http://xmpp.org/) or XML-RPC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML-RPC)
dan | 18-Apr-09 at 8:34 am | Permalink
Java is much heavier to run.
XMPP – we have been chatting a lot about it.
Mark B | 18-Apr-09 at 6:49 pm | Permalink
@cramsey – if you want to get a good C book, do yourself a favor and get an old “K&R” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language_(book))
I program in C at my day job and even after nearly 10 years and Google at my fingertips, I still flip through my ragged old copy looking up things.
Best…programming…book…evar!
cramsey | 22-Apr-09 at 3:04 am | Permalink
@MarkB thanks I’ll have to check it out. Looks like a light read. Only 274 pages
@Dan really looking forward to what you guys can do with XMPP.
There is a product out there that can use the jabber protocol to send event log messages to jabber clients for example. One of the advantages is that the messages can be encrypted with TLS/SSL. Finally, it can be setup to send the messages to a multi user chat room.
I’m sure that since the protocol is open that it could be used for a lot of different things where you want to communicate peek to peek or peek to the world instantly.