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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 I'm
optimistic that things are […]


<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 manager why they
couldn't use Unix instead […]


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 requires frequent internet access.

I tried the Evolution […]