Pluto … my upnp sdk got some setbacks a few weeks ago after I found out that a company had been using the name ‘pluto’ for their sdk. I wouldn’t care much but they are doing some sort of ‘UPnP’ like Home thing. What are the odds!

Of course, I found out right after I posted the request to host Pluto on SourceForge. So I had to withdraw it and come up with a better name. Don’t know if you know what CVS is but it’s a pain in the a*** to change file names once it’s on the server. So the requirement was to keep my filenames intact. They all start with PLT_ . The new name had to have these 3 letters in it.

I came up with 2 contenders: Platinum & Plutino. The latter one being a real name for the ‘little’ plutos orbiting around the earth seems to be a good analogy for the P2P world I am trying to build with my sdk.

Continuing my domain buying frenzy (whopping $8.95 a year), I found out that https://plutinosoft.com was available so I bought it. We’ll see what I do with that …