[Bitpim-devel] Newbie developer questions

[Derek J. Lambert]

Well after fighting with my cable for a number of weeks I've finally got it
working with BitPim. I must say this is an excellent little package. I would
like to try and contribute to the development effort, and was wondering if
there was a list of who was working on what currently - as to not duplicate
efforts. I'd also like to find some sites on Python programming with a slant
towards cross-language learning (i.e. Python for Perl/VB/etc. programmers) -
but anything would be helpful. Thanks!



_derek

[bfaye]

I found a site through google that was a "Rosetta Stone" for programming
languages. Its here:
http://yagni.com/rosetta-stone/index.php

You may get a bandwidth exceeded error, if so, just google for it and use the
google cache! I figured out how to do loops there!

So what phone do you have? I'm hacking away at my Sanyo 8100 with help from
Stephen. I've gotten some code that will read off the pictures taken by the
onboard camera from the phone.
Billy

Post by Derek J. Lambert
Well after fighting with my cable for a number of weeks I've finally got it
working with BitPim. I must say this is an excellent little package. I would
like to try and contribute to the development effort, and was wondering if
there was a list of who was working on what currently - as to not duplicate
efforts. I'd also like to find some sites on Python programming with a slant
towards cross-language learning (i.e. Python for Perl/VB/etc. programmers) -
but anything would be helpful. Thanks!
_derek

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[Roger Binns]

Post by Derek J. Lambert
I'd also like to find some sites on Python programming with a slant
towards cross-language learning (i.e. Python for Perl/VB/etc. programmers) -
but anything would be helpful. Thanks!

http://www.python.org/topics/learn/prog.html

The one thing it may take a little while to realise is that Python is
deceptively simple.

Post by Derek J. Lambert
I would
like to try and contribute to the development effort, and was wondering if
there was a list of who was working on what currently

The bitpim-cvs-checkins mialing list gives you every commit, so that tells
you what code is actually changing and who did it.

I do post a list of little projects that need to be done every few months
to this list. There should be something in the archives. In general try
and find a small self contained thing until you get familiar with the
codebase and way of thinking.

Then suggest an area that interests you. For example some people care about
importing addressbook and calendar, others about printing, others about
user interface, others about specific phone models. Being somewhat mercenary
about it, if you wanted to add something to your resume, what would it be?

Roger

[Derek J. Lambert]

Thanks, that's an interesting site.

I've got a VX6000 here. I've never really heard much about LG till I got
this device, but I'm definitely a fan now.

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I found a site through google that was a "Rosetta Stone" for programming
languages. Its here:
http://yagni.com/rosetta-stone/index.php

You may get a bandwidth exceeded error, if so, just google for it and use
the
google cache! I figured out how to do loops there!

So what phone do you have? I'm hacking away at my Sanyo 8100 with help from
Stephen. I've gotten some code that will read off the pictures taken by the
onboard camera from the phone.
Billy

Post by Derek J. Lambert
Well after fighting with my cable for a number of weeks I've finally got

it

Post by Derek J. Lambert
working with BitPim. I must say this is an excellent little package. I

would

Post by Derek J. Lambert
like to try and contribute to the development effort, and was wondering if
there was a list of who was working on what currently - as to not

duplicate

Post by Derek J. Lambert
efforts. I'd also like to find some sites on Python programming with a

slant

Post by Derek J. Lambert
towards cross-language learning (i.e. Python for Perl/VB/etc. programmers)

-

Post by Derek J. Lambert
but anything would be helpful. Thanks!
_derek

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[Derek J. Lambert]

Looks likes that python site is definitely a good starting point. I'll also
take a look through the archives and see if I can find a small project to
try and tackle. I'm not sure what exactly I'd like to add to my resume, I'd
like see BitPim the killer cell app like everyone else I imagine. In
addition to maybe working with the UI, I'm really hoping at some point I can
get some new animations and vibrating ringers on the phone. I've been
playing a little with CMX Studio, but I'd love to get one of the Verizon
backdrops off the phone to take a look at.

_derek

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Post by Derek J. Lambert
I'd also like to find some sites on Python programming with a slant
towards cross-language learning (i.e. Python for Perl/VB/etc. programmers)

-

Post by Derek J. Lambert
but anything would be helpful. Thanks!

http://www.python.org/topics/learn/prog.html

The one thing it may take a little while to realise is that Python is
deceptively simple.

Post by Derek J. Lambert
I would
like to try and contribute to the development effort, and was wondering if
there was a list of who was working on what currently

The bitpim-cvs-checkins mialing list gives you every commit, so that tells
you what code is actually changing and who did it.

I do post a list of little projects that need to be done every few months
to this list. There should be something in the archives. In general try
and find a small self contained thing until you get familiar with the
codebase and way of thinking.

Then suggest an area that interests you. For example some people care about
importing addressbook and calendar, others about printing, others about
user interface, others about specific phone models. Being somewhat
mercenary
about it, if you wanted to add something to your resume, what would it be?

Roger


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[Roger Binns]

Post by Derek J. Lambert
I'm really hoping at some point I can
get some new animations and vibrating ringers on the phone.

The BCI format supports multiple frames of images. If you look
at brewcompressedimage.py you can see the decoding going on.
I didn't figure out enough to encode a BCI image, but it
would be nice. One thing that would be very useful is reducing
an image to a palette of 256 colours (needed by BCI).

I don't know if the newer phones support animated BCI or not.
If they do, this would be an interesting route to pursue.

Roger