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.
Continue readingAt GNOME Summit
I’m at the GNOME Summit. Right now watching the Hotwire talk. Oh, and since my blog was broken when it mattered, I’m late to the party – but what the hell: openSUSE 10.3 is out! And it’s actually not too …
Continue readingThe Ongoing GVFS Saga
Spent last week in Stockholm working on GVFS with Alex. We made great strides – pretty much all of the file system operations are now implemented in gvfs-daemon, gvfs-fuse-daemon and the SMB backend. Plenty of work remaining, though.
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