According to a -blog post from Torsten Werner, the current defect report for ISO -29500 (ISO OOXML) is 809 pages. His interesting point is that the -defect report is 71 pages more than the full ODF 1.1 specification. -Personally I find it more interesting that ISO still believe ISO OOXML -can be fixed in ISO. Personally, I believe it is broken beyon repair, -and I completely lack any trust in ISO for being able to get anywhere -close to solving the problems. I was part of the Norwegian committee -involved in the OOXML fast track process, and was not impressed with -Standard Norway and ISO in how they handled it.
- -These days I focus on ODF instead, which seem like a specification -with the future ahead of it. We are working in NUUG to organise a ODF -seminar this autumn.
+This evening I made my first Perl GUI application. The last few +days I have worked on a Perl module for controlling my recently +aquired Spykee robots, and the module is now getting complete enought +that it is possible to use it to control the robot driving at least. +It was now time to figure out how to use it to create some GUI to +allow me to drive the robot around. I picked PerlQt as I have had +positive experiences with the Qt API before, and spent a few minutes +browsing the web for examples. Using Qt Designer seemed like a short +cut, so I ended up writing the perl GUI using Qt Designer and +compiling it into a perl program using the puic program from +libqt-perl. Nothing fancy yet, but it got buttons to connect and +drive around.
+ +The perl module I have written provide a object oriented API for +controlling the robot. Here is an small example on how to use it:
+ +
+use Spykee;
+Spykee::discover(sub {$robot{$_[0]} = $_[1]});
+my $host = (keys %robot)[0];
+my $spykee = Spykee->new();
+$spykee->contact($host, "admin", "admin");
+$spykee->left();
+sleep 2;
+$spykee->right();
+sleep 2;
+$spykee->forward();
+sleep 2;
+$spykee->back();
+sleep 2;
+$spykee->stop();
+
+
+Thanks to the release of the source of the robot firmware, I could +peek into the implementation at the other end to figure out how to +implement the protocol used by the robot. I've implemented several of +the commands the robot understand, but is still missing the camera +support to make it possible to control the robot from remote. First I +want to implement support for uploading new firmware and configuring +the wireless network, to make it possible to bootstrap a Spykee robot +without the producers Windows and MacOSX software (I only have Linux, +so I had to ask a friend to come over to get the robot testing +going. :).
+ +Will release the source to the public soon, but need to figure out +where to make it available first. I will add a link to +the NUUG wiki for +those that want to check back later to find it.
