Date February 2010

Media View Toggle Buttons

By stevel stevel

One of the things implemented in Purple Rain (the new Feather in Songbird 1.4) was direct toggle buttons to select the current Media View.  However, we only implemented them for the built in List View & Filter View buttons.  Third party Media Views were still only listed in the arrow-drop-down menu button next to them.  [...]

Updated locations for Concerts

By stevel stevel

I just committed an encoding fix for Songbird’s Concerts add-on that, starting with tonight’s nightlies on trunk, should mean you start seeing some updated European countries in the available locations list.  The new countries include Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden.

While the concert data is now being included, not all localisations are [...]

Make long term planning possible in an Agile environment

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger

Agile development methods are well suited to plan and execute near term release cycle. For instance, the tools we developed and processes we’ve adopted help us plan and steer a release to completion with a good level of accuracy and repeatability. However, there are instances when the time horizon needs to be further out than [...]