I finally released an alpha version for people to test today. It took a while to complete, as I rewrote the structure several times as I kept learning more. Even though I spent most of my time on the configuration, I'm still not really happy with it. I hope to integrate it better to the native MP interface in the future. Anyway, I figure it's a good enough release to hopefully gather some more feedback on design and implementation, and any other uses I haven't thought of already.

Here's a quick little video I made of me talking to my computer (it wasn't a very private moment, so I decided to share).
It took me a while to figure out how to record all the sounds coming from it. Basically I ran the speaker out from one machine, into the line-in on another, then combined the audio/video tracks.

I've been hard at work over the last week developing an LCARS skin for MediaPortal.
It's been quite the challenge, as it doesn't really fit into the normal MediaPortal structure for navigation. I used a combination of Photoshop and Illustrator to develop the graphics.

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I updated the myVoice plugin for Mediaportal over the weekend.

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After a lot of time of time and learning, I've finally released an opensource beta of myVoice onto the MediaPortal community.

I hope it's well received. I see a lot of potential in MediaPortal itself. It has support for a lot of different media outlets (RSS, iTunes, www, etc), and various hardware to support a fairly robust environment to develop upon.

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Well I made my first nucleus plugin over the weekend. The plugin let's members sign up to an event. It's pretty simple, but I learned a lot about how to make a plugin in nucleus, reinforcing some php and mySQL skills that I picked up a couple of months ago. Right now only one event is allowed, but I think I'll modify it and allow for multiple events with dates.