After 2 1/2 years at Intertrust, I decided to try my luck again in the startup world. I am joining a new hot company in Palo Alto called Veodia. I will be in charge of the engineering team. Stay tuned, this is really cool stuff !
Last friday, I attended the Appollo Conference in SF at the Adobe office. You can see me here playing with my new MacBook Pro.
Yes I did it. I finally found the time to integrate Platinum UPnP Server inside XBMC. This was officially released a few days ago. (I am c0diq btw ;-)). I did try to make XBMC show up in XP My Network Places when you have the UPnP UI Component installed. Unfortunately, XP relies heavily on multicast for it to work. I wrote a SSDP Proxy a while back and I changed it to forward broadcast messages to Multicast and vice-versa. When the Proxy is running on another machine than the XP box, it works great. But if it’s running on the same machine as the XP box, XP doesn’t receive the multicast packet. This is the same problem I have experienced with Windows Media Connect. If you try to look for it (using the Intel Tools) on the same machine, it won’t work. That’s because the UPnPHost (UPnP Windows implementation) refuses Multicast packets coming from the same machine. Yack.
So after 2 days of extreme frustration, I decided to switch gear. I am working now on a firefox extension called Fireball that will let you find upnp servers on the network and browse them via javascript. How cool is that!? I am 70% there. Say tuned!
I also just released version 0.3.7 on Sourceforge with lots of improvements and bug fixed. Usual place.
I realized today that I haven’t posted anything in a while. It’s unbelievable how much time a newborn takes, and I am only doing 10% of what my wife does.
I managed to do a few things over the last month:
So a few weeks ago, I was at a conference in San Diego and I met my old buddy T. We both used to be in our own little band playing our favorite instrument, secretly hoping to become the next guitar hero (like every teenage boy does after listening to Jimi Hendrix for the first time). Anyways, talking with him about music and reminescing about the good times, when the only thing we had to worry about at the time was doing our homework and whether or not we would ever get to kiss a girl, ever (thus the guitar hero dream ’cause we knew they were getting some at least) made me want to play again … a lot. Ok I may not have become a guitar hero but I got to kiss a few girls, but still I want to play again .. a lot.
Too bad thierry is not in the bay area anymore, we could start our own little band and go back in time like nothing had happened (you know, the hair loss and all). In the meantime, he mentioned some really cool new music apps to check out like AmpliTube. I digg it a lot. Sounds almost as good as my POD. I am going to check out Guitar Rig too. For electronic music, there’s always a Reason.