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Archive for June, 2002

<p>Still doing some Mac Carbon coding. I had completly forgotten that we had to write our own little for() event loops. And operating system API functions with no prefixes? What's that about? I guess they never expected anyone but Apple to ever write a library. And pascal strings, with the the length in the first byte and no null termination? I thought nostalgia was supposed to feel good.

Sunday, June 30th, 2002

Hampstead Heath turns out to be a pretty good upgrade from the Englischer Garten, just as it had started to seem too small to run around. Plus, as a halfway reward, you get the view from Parliament Hill over London.

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<p>I've been exploring Microsoft's "Pocket PC" development stuff. It's a terrible confusion of non-orthoganal, overlapping yet incompatible products, some crufty, some .NET and some just called .NET. While Microsoft doesn't need to compete with anyone else, there does seem to be some kind of twisted competition between internal Microsoft departments. And don't get me started about how "Managed C++" is the only C++ in Visual Studio now. Sure, you don't _have_ to use the language extensions – unless you want to use Microsoft's APIs, which are increasingly .NET-only.

Monday, June 24th, 2002

After being offline for so long, I've finally caught up with everthing and we've released in-sync versions of gtkmm, gnomemm and libbonobouimm. I'm making noises about an imminent gtkmm API freeze, and it turns out that's a good way to get a lot more bug reports and patches. We have 8 different coders credited in [...]

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<p>I'm playing with MacOS X and I'm not very

Tuesday, June 11th, 2002

impressed so far. It doesn't look like MacOS X was
even properly user tested. I'm sure that System 7 was a
lot more convenient even for complex stuff. I don't think
it's much more usable than GNOME. Even
our old file selector is better than the MacOS X one. And
I
keep finding stuff that can only be done with secret
keyboard [...]

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<p>I'm in London now. For three months I'll be working at

Wednesday, June 5th, 2002

Blueprint, which is
owned by a friend of mine. Now I just need to find
somewhere to live. Incredibly, it looks like accommodation
has become yet more expensive and hard to find since I was
last here in 1998.
My PC is still en route, and I can't do anything UNIXy
until it arrives.

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