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Archive for February, 2003

<p>I've been back in Munich for the weekend, but I'm about to leave again for Linz, Austria for another week of training - on a proprietary C++ GUI toolkit for mobile phones. It looks like I will continue to work in Linz afterwards, but it might yet be Frankfurt. Linz seems pleasant and it could be nice to be there during the summer.

Sunday, February 16th, 2003

I used the connection-less time to fix the memory management in mysqlcppapi, something that I've been meaning to do for the last year. I also updated Glom to use the latest version, and fixed a few more regressions left over from the port to gtkmm2. This also showed a libxml++ problem so I fixed that […]

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<p>Germans tend not to express their opinions much, but it's great to see that as individuals they have a limit. "Nie wieder" is a powerful moral imperative. I'm really glad I live here.

Friday, February 7th, 2003

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<p><a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/gman/">gman</a>, <a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/jfleck/">jfleck</a> , <a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/louie/">louie</a>, <a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/jdub/">jdub</a> and I spent a frenzied few days working on the <a href="http://www.advogato.org/proj/GNOME/">GNOME</a> release notes. Because we use the latest cvs stuff all the time, seeing gradual changes, and because people don't use NEWS files like they should, it was really hard to find out what exactly had changed. But I think it <a href="http://www.gnome.org/start/2.2/">turned out well</a>. I was pleasantly surprised by <a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/jfleck/">jfleck</a>'s perfect <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/141/">Strunk &amp; White</a>-like rewriting/editing ability. He can write. That's rare.

Thursday, February 6th, 2003

I'm glad that we got the “GNOME is simple and works” message across. It really is the most important thing about GNOME these days, and it's a very good thing. I think it's easy for people to consider deployment of a small, non-mysterious, comprehensive system.

I wasn't around for the actual release because I had to […]

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