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Archive for April, 2002

<p>My time in Munich seems to be over. I've been burning

Sunday, April 28th, 2002

money while I look for a contract here or somewhere else nice in Europe, but things just aren't working out. Last year there was too much contractor work and now there's hardly any. My appartment's lease is up so that's made the decision for me. I'm making plans to go back to Britain, where there [...]


<p>I made <a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/danielk/">danielk</a> officially <a

Friday, April 26th, 2002

href=”http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gtkmm&m=101933131800923&w=2″>co-maintainer of gtkmm. And then people responded by giving us twice as much stuff to process. But that's good. We've finished processing Michael's Forte patches, thanks to danielk's iterator/traits hacking, so I'll soon be making a gtkmm release that works on Sun's GNOME2/Solaris platform. I'm using GNOME2 as my desktop now. It was easier than [...]


<p>Michael v. Szombathely sent me a wonderfully detailed

Friday, April 19th, 2002

email with lots of patches to make gtkmm2 build on Solaris with Sun's Forte compiler. Assuming that we get Cedric Gustin's patches soon, the next release should be usable on Solaris and Windows, and of course Linux. This is happening much sooner than I expected. Martin Schulze has also been doing lots of work that [...]


<p>I started C++ wrappers for libgda (The database API

Wednesday, April 17th, 2002

underneath GNOME-DB), and rodrigo seems eager to help out with it. But there's a lot of CORBA BonoboObject-based servers in there, so it'll have to go on hold while we figure out how to auto-generate C++ wrappers for them. I'm working on that in bonobomm, and at the moment it looks like we'll have to [...]


<p>Back from GUADEC3. I spent a little more time walking

Tuesday, April 9th, 2002

around Madrid than planned, as I got caught in gridlock traffic and missed the flight. I don't see what the big deal is about Madrid – it's big but not that special. GUADEC was an incremental improvement personally, but it was a mess overall. While I thank the organisers for what they did do, I [...]


<p>I posted a first libbonobouimm tarball to the

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2002

gtkmm and bonbomm lists. I'll put it in cvs after everyone agrees on the directory structure. It has a working example that's far clearer than the C original. I was suprised to find that libbonoboui actually implements GTK-like widgets that don't have much to do with CORBA interfaces. But that does at least mean bonobomm [...]