In a discussion on the Goanna developers mailing list, Colin and me decided to move Goanna to Origo.
This puts the library on a platform, that I find easier to maintain (no surprises!) and allows us to improve its documentation with the help of the community as it is now wiki-based.
After using Origo Alpha extensively in our courses, the platform has now reached beta stage and has been received well by the public.
You can create a user and register a project here: http://origo.ethz.ch
I just made available a cluster with a pseudo-random generator that wraps the reference C implementation of Mersenne Twister. Feel free to modify and extend as the wrapping is only here for integers.
A couple of days ago we setup an automatic build and testing system for our development of Origo. We used CruiseControl as the base of the system. CruiseControl does check if there were any changes to the source code and launches a build.
Obviously it took me longer than I had planned for to write the next blog post. There are a couple of reasons for this - the most important one - Origo - was already mentioned by Patrick.
Yesterday the first alpha version of origo has been launched. Origo is a platform for distributed development and user interaction. It is built on a middleware architecture that uses JXTA and is written in Eiffel. This middleware provides an xmlrpc api which is used by a website to access and update data.
See more at: http://origo.alpha.origo.ethz.ch/
As some of you might know, I'm at the moment working on my Master thesis and I'm building the core for Origo (http://origo.ethz.ch).
