As many of you will of now guessed Techspansion is no more - this means no more updates for Visualhub or Audialhub, I may or may not keep the tools I've made maintained that will depend on demand and the workload of university, and as far as I can tell there isn't that much demand.

Personally I feel that Techspansion shutting its virtual doors is a sad thing, I always felt that it was a guardian against poor and shoddy audio/video conversion software and offered good humor in addition to just getting the job done.

Techspansion you'll be missed...

In the last few weeks I've released 2 new pieces of software, both to do with Visualhub and its excellent automation.

The first of these releases is Visualhub Monitor. This allows you to monitor and start your conversion from pretty much any web-browser in the world (provided you have it setup correctly), handy for when you do all your conversion on a headless machine.

The second of these is an evolution of Oimo and instead of taking one file and converting it to many different formats it takes many files and converts them all to many different formats so naturally its called Mimo.

I hope that if you do use any of my applications you'll not run into any bugs - if you do get in contact and I'll do my best to remove them.

I've recently tinkered a tiny bit with the design of the site and added a bit of a drop shadow, I'm still not 100% on it so it maybe disappearing at some point in the future but I feel that the site needs a bit of web 2.0!

I've managed to get myself quite a few little projects lined up for over the summer now and in no particular order they are:

Write a new scoring system for BUTC (British University Team Championships - an inter-uni archery competition), this will be based in PHP and be using SQLite as the database.

Write a piece of iPod software to keep track of scores and stats, obviously using Cocoa - when I finally get round to learning it!

Add more functionality to the DUAC website, I'm thinking of adding a full backend to the site to help make managing the club a lot easier - compertition scores, membership details, competition entry, mailing list management... basically the whole 9 yards.

Do something in Java to keep my Java fresh in preparation of the SEG project next year.

Finally finish off my semi-secret Visualhub project - its almost there but I'm waiting on a fix from Tyler and well a little motivation on my part - also release MIMO

I seem to have a lot to do over the summer...