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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 should be more work. [...]


<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 I expected to set up. Nautilus is [...]


<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 I
suggested. I just love getting patches.
I've [...]


<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
just make our C++ server delegate 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 think that they let [...]


<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
applications can continue to use the [...]