Hash tables! They're everywhere. They're also pretty boring, but I've had GLib issue #1198 sitting around for a while, and the GNOME move to GitLab resulted in a helpful reminder (or two) being sent out that convinced me to look …
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Introducing Chafa
Here's something I didn't know: The DEC VT100 turns 40 in August. This factlet comes courtesy of Wikipedia, as I'm not quite old and wise enough to have made its acquaintance outside of a museum. None the less, the VT100 …
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I've been keeping an eye on Rust for a while now, so when I read Alberto's statement of support for more Rust use in GNOME, I couldn't resist piling on… From the perspective of someone who's quite used to C, …
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 …
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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. …
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Alexander Larsson has been hacking like a whirlwind, bringing us the next generation in VFS services for the desktop, GVFS. By now, a lot of the planned functionality is done, and we even have a partially done FUSE frontend which …
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