D-Bus tutorial finished. It should cover all major aspects of D-Bus, using both method calls and signals. I’ve tried to make it as clear as possible, but I’m afraid that it may not be quite clear. Hopefully it will be useful to people.

On a related note, this has caused me to greatly increase the features available on the website. BBCode now works(only for pages at the moment though). I do however need to make it more robust. At the moment it’s highly likely to break if bad input is introduced. In order to make something that looks good, I’m going to have to write some sort of tokenizer it seems. That way I can replace only certain instances. i.e. I want to make it so that each paragraph is enclosed by a <p> tag, but I don’t want that tag inside of code or quote blocks. Well, maybe inside of quote blocks, but definitely not code blocks. It makes it look weird.

So at work, we use D-Bus to allow our programs to talk to each other. However, when first learning how to use D-Bus, all of the information that we were able to find on the internet was either laughably out of date or otherwise useless. So I’ve taken it upon myself to create a good tutorial that shows you exactly how to use the D-Bus. Hopefully, you can find it helpful.

Note that it’s not done quite yet. I’m going to add more information on signals, plus sample code once I’m done. I should have time to finish it this weekend.

On a related note, the tutorial is the first page that uses my new page-generator. It’s basically the same as a new post, but it’s more static to the extent that it will stay on the left hand side under ‘navigate’. With this in place, we are coming up on a fully-featured CMS system. Of course, this is nowhere near ready to release, but the basic framework is mostly in place at this point.