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Archive for September, 2001

<P>I'm still making gradual progress on Gtk– 1.3 while I'm

Tuesday, September 25th, 2001

searching for a new contract. I think that it's time to try building a simple example. Oktoberfest started up again, with the usual madness.


It's time to look for another contract. The project was

Thursday, September 20th, 2001

cancelled after most of the permanent staff left. Now there's a lot of great reusable code that's never even going to be looked at. I'll try to stay in Munich because it makes no sense to leave just before the ski season. It's not the best time to be looking for a new contract, but [...]


<P>I have continued to clean up the gtkmm-1.3

Tuesday, September 18th, 2001

code-generation perl code. It now uses jamesh's more up-to-date and standardised gtk.defs interface-definition files, so that's another large problem out of the way. I am now much more optimistic that we can gradually put all necessary pieces together. I turned down a Windows project at the company, for obvious reasons. When I asked the project [...]


Support the individuals who have lost loved ones. Don't

Tuesday, September 11th, 2001

follow the crowd. Don't start believing that newcasters and politicians are wise. Avoid blind faith in anything.


Work on my latest contract has entered a phase that I like

Friday, September 7th, 2001

to call 'Whistling past the graveyard'. Meeting with management is like trying to see Catch-22's Major Major.


<P>Apparently <a

Tuesday, September 4th, 2001

href=”http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/~bellet/guadec2/day2.1/picture-012.html”>Evil Robot Murray attended Guadec 2 on my behalf. Lefthand side, in the blue, with the eyes.


<p>I made a little more progress on <a href="http://www.advogato.org/proj/Gtk–/">Gtk–</a> 1.3

Sunday, September 2nd, 2001

today. I figured out quite a bit about how the new code generator works, added comments that should make it easier for the next person, and started to implement the new signal system. This link was very helpful when I was looking at the m4 code. Flat-rate ADSL access is really making life easier. Development [...]