Entries from September 2007 ↓

So now we’re starting to let artists, musicians, bloggers, writers and other creatives know that there’s a new way to get support for their work.

It’ll be interesting to get some feedback from people. We think that fans will support something they really enjoy - even small amounts can add up very quickly if you have enough fans.

And it’s not just artists in the traditional sense of the word. Bloggers, software developers, game modders, journalists, font-makers - anyone who creates something for others to enjoy.

Well, hopefully we’ll have more time to blog now that the site is up and running.

Dave

Guess what the story was? No prizes for guessing that the problem was a well known bug in IE.
Before to get that problem though we found a small problem in the openlaszlo’s lzc file for Linux. Seems like the way “find” is being used there causes problems on my debian.

There is a line in lps-4.0.2/bin/lzc which says -
LPS_HOME=`find “$myhome/../Server” -name lps’*’ -maxdepth 1`
It should really say -
LPS_HOME=`find “$myhome/../Server” -maxdepth 1 -name lps’*'`

Apart from the widget we are re-working our front page to explain the whole idea better.

But now that we have the widget working on IE, we want to start inviting people to join. Finally.

Here we are - after a year of development, we have started emailing some friends - musicians and bloggers - to come check out Karmafan.

We have some issues to be resolved, but gee its fun times.

Issue number 1 - We used openlaszlo to generate a flash widget. By jove its a pain. We can’t figure out now what laszlo generated swf wont load on IE. Our solution - dump laszlo, we are gonna use flash. We tried our best to use opensource tools, but we are under stress now. Need a widget quick, and flash seems our best friend.

Issue numero duo - Damn SSL certificate. Damn SSL certificate. Its taking ages to get it. We plan on replacing our self signed one with a trial one from thawte, so this should start behaving properly in the next few hours.