The snow-shoveling I've been taking part in over the last couple of weeks is best described with a set of graphs: So far, we've been able to lop about 23 seconds – or 48% – off the time it takes …
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My talk, La comunidad GNOME para principiantes (The GNOME community for beginners), seems to have gone over well here at ENLi 2008 (the 2008 National Linux Meeting in Puebla, Mexico), with a big audience and interesting followup questions. The slides …
Continue readingEvolution goodness (and some badness)
My laptop went south a couple of days ago, so I'm having to make do with a screen that is bigger but endowed with fewer pixels. This has been a source of frustration, especially in Evolution, where I depend on …
Continue readingI has a face
I'm wearing it on my head. Looks good on planets!
Continue readingMore GUADEC, Istanbul
A day and a half left of the conference. Some pictures from the awesome, Collabora-sponsored Bosporus cruise, sightseeing, etc. below. Everyone seems to be having a good time.
Continue readingFun at GUADEC 2008
At GUADEC 2008. Istanbul is a fun and interesting place, and the talks aren't all that bad either. Not much time to write or code, though.
Continue readingIt's not a picnic table, part 2
As a followup to my previous GHashTable post*, Benjamin encouraged me to time the swfdec test suite – "make check" in the tests dir is consistently 4% faster with the patch. * A WordPress upgrade ate said post about how …
Continue readingHome, sweet home
I'm finally back in Xalapa after more than three weeks on the road. After the wildly successful GTK+ Berlin hackfest, I spent a day in the Hague with my good friends Andrea and Marcus, then headed for home. The flight …
Continue readingEnd of hack week
The second Novell hack week is at an end, and I've set up a public Trac instance for Sterling. Development will go on there. I'll devote some ITO ("innovation time off") to it next time I get a chance.
Continue readingNovell hack week, day 4
Four days down. How time flies when you're having fun. I must admit that Sterling is barely past the point where it creates a panel applet that does nothing – but on the other hand, I've absorbed a bit of …
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