Good news everyone! I made socket connections encrypted. These are used when two clients can directly talk to each others because they are in the same network. This is a shortcut to use instead of traffic over the server. These were unencrypted before, which always gave me a bad gut feeling.

Well, AES 128 bit is here.

(Code can be found in the ics repo).

Just wanted to mention that the version advertised on the website, “Pre-release version built March 23, 2009″, is the most recent official and tested version.
It is based on the commit 2138676a800ae07ba172ef2f7ae46f2bce1c942d.
Everything after that is in flux, and not necessarily stable.

Stable means, functionality has been tested to work across Windows, MacOS and some Linux by a test protocol, there are screenshots or videos and executables for Windows and MacOS.

Future versions will be announced here. Subscribe to this blog’s feed.

You can now fetch the source easily from Jake’s github site:

git clone git://github.com/JohannesBuchner/Jake.git

Also, I updated the license file (GPL3). Don’t try to sue us for violating software patents, there is no such thing.

Update: See the document “How to get the source” at http://dev.jakeapp.com/documents/2

Check out the FAQ page! It tries to answer questions from the comments.

Also, I saw this: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/06/26/jake-keeps-collaborative-file-sharing-in-sync/

Available at http://dev.jakeapp.com/projects/jake/files and also linked now on the main page. A howto is missing to introduce the concepts and what one has to do … volunteers?

So I added a comparison section and tried to polish the blog and website a bit.

I added the promised comparison and feature list at http://www.jakeapp.com/about.

Unfortunately, we don’t have a git server yet, but you are welcome to clone the existing repository if you are interested. The full source is available, see the small introduction for new developers.

I’ll try to get Jake into slashdot…

Well, Jake was released at the end of March 2009 and we completed the Software Engineering class we did it for.

However, all developers are pretty burned out since then and are not active.

Anyone interested in development is welcome, just drop me a line and we can chat about it. I’ll try to set up an overview that introduces new developers.

Also, if you have any questions what Jake is, does etc., please let me know. I’ll try to add a comparison to other tools.

Johannes Buchner
xmpp:J13R@jabber.fsinf.at
mail:buchner.johannes[ät]gmx.at

We are in the process of moving from subversion to git. Git’s just plain cool, damn faaast and the concept of decentralized repositories is simply a leap forward.

The last days i fiddled around with redmine & git and gitosis – at first they were a bit iffy but now they’re playing nice.

First, get onto the SVN –> GIT Crash Course

To get the most out of git, here are some configuration tipps:

Set your Name

git config –global user.name “Your Name Comes Here”
git config –global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com

Colors!

git config –global color.diff auto
git config –global color.status auto
git config –global color.branch auto

Jake’s coming….