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.
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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 …
Continue readingNovell hack week, day 3
Federico and Tambet came and hacked in addition to Mike and me. Got some stuff done, but not as much as I'd have liked to. The arrachera I had for lunch sort of knocked me out. I'd better get some …
Continue readingNovell hack week, day 2
Day 2 is at an end, and I've spent it learning about C# and Mono tools, looking into how other projects do stuff. I now have a Git repository with a fledgling project structure, and a more solid foundation to …
Continue readingNovell hack week, day 1
Novell's hack week has started. For those of you who don't know what a hack week is, it's a work week where we, the programmers at Novell, get to goof around with more or less whatever project we find interesting. …
Continue readingopenSUSE GNOME Meeting
The openSUSE GNOME team will be holding its first meeting tailored to Asia-Pacific time zones on Thursday 12:00 UTC, in #opensuse-gnome on irc.freenode.net. If you’ve been left out because of your time zone previously, this is your chance to participate.
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