Be sure to check out the openSUSE community week currently underway. The GNOME-centric part of the community has its own program for the week.
Continue readingShoveling snow
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 …
Continue readingENLi 2008
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.
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