Christian Hammond tells me those smart people at VMWare are using gtkmm for the UI of their new VMWare Workstation 5, and plan to gtkmm-ize their other products too.
They also took the time to make a test case for a particularly strange libsigc++ bug that I'm glad to have fixed with some template magic.

I'm trying to set up Mailman on our gnome-ev.de server, so we can have some mailing lists. It's not quite working though.
I installed mailman with yast. It's meant to use the web cgi stuff from /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin automatically, but suexec doesn't allow that, leaving a message in /etc/apache2/suexec.log saying "command not in docroot".
So I copied the […]

A last warning for the stragglers: Today is the last day of the special prices for the GUADEC Hotels. It'll probably cost more after today.
I'm in the Hansa hotel. The youth hostel is much cheaper but I'm a light sleeper and even more grumpy when tired. I'll arrive in Stuttgart early on Saturday morning, for […]

The GUADEC registration page is now online, finally. We're lucky that Fernando San Martin Woerner quickly put together a plan B at the last moment. Yes, we only have PayPal. Yes, you should help to create a better permanent system for next year.
This is a good time to remind you that donations help developers […]

As Glom gradually becomes usable, gaining most of the features that most people need from it, I'm thinking about how I'll promote it to regular users. It would be nice if some creative type created a logo/icon for it, maybe vaguely expressing its functionality.
Yes, I'm open to a name change too.

For GUADEC in Stuttgart, We have a chance of some cheap, but maybe not so warm/comfortable, dormitory accommodation at the Feuerbach “Camp Stuttgart”. Please sign up quickly on the Wiki GUADEC accommodation page if you are interested, because we have left it late to reserve beds there.

Yesterday I met some of the local Debian people in Munich at Pasta & Basta. There were lots of people, encouraged by Munich Council's choice of a Debian-based solution for their LiMux project.

I recently read Florian Schießl's Limux slides (German) from his talk at Chemnitz LinuxTag a few weeks ago. I'm pleasantly surprised by […]

The GNOME Foundation Board thought it would be nice to have an official "Member of the GNOME Foundation" logo for people to put on their visiting/address cards, but usually not business cards. This is all part of making it easy for the right people to use the GNOME trademark.
James Bowes did an example of a […]

Printing/Reports is the last big task for Glom before it's
fundamentally usable, I think. It's also the perfect thing for other people to hack on, because it doesn't need much knowledge of the existing code. The Document object can tell you about the database structure and you can get the data directly from Postgres itself, using […]

I've improved Glom's python syntax for calculated fields, and added the ability to get values from related records. For instance:
record.related[”contacts”][”name_first”]

I'm quite pleased with that. Now I'll try to get some summary calculations working, such as
record.related[”invoice_lines”].sum(”total_price”)