Recent comments by Federico and Brian Cameron made me wonder: Are we ready to demand full documentation of any new APIs going into the GNOME Platform?
We usually try not to create feature-based criteria like this, so that we can actually release the software on a time-based schedule, as long as we are fairly sure that […]

This week our GUADEC network guys (Joerg Hoh and Hanno Wagner and friends) are doing the same for ApacheCon, again in Haus der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart, and again with the enlightened support of the Stuttgart and Baden Württemberg authorities. That place really needs to just install a network instead of having one built and torn […]

I need advice from someone who really knows SQL.
This SQL command is simple and works, and hopefully the intention is clear. I get the actual contact name by joining on the contact id:

SELECT deliveries.departure_contact_id, contacts.name_last FROM deliveries
LEFT OUTER JOIN contacts ON (deliveries.departure_contact_id = contacts.contacts_id)

However, what happens if I have two contact_id columns, and […]

As the GNOME Foundation has now approved some funds for the European GNOME Events Box, I'm trying again to find a smaller 3Ghz PC for approx 700 Euros. I'd like a "small format" HP PC, like the ones I saw all over LinuxTag, but at 975 Euros, that's not better than a Shuttle PC.

A week or so ago I was in Linz, Austria, to do a little report for GNOME Journal about the Pangea internet/multimedia centre for immigrants and refugees. I was really surprised at the performance of GNOME using very old PCs as thin clients with a regular new PC as the server. They seemed as fast […]

Glom now has an Image field type, for pictures. It's simple and it works.

Last weekend we visited Landshut, near Munich, for their Landshuter Hochzeit celebration. It only happens once every four years, and it was sold out in January, but a friend got us some tickets.

It's apparently meant to be a reenactment of a royal wedding, and the accompanying festivities, that happened 500 years ago. Thousands of the […]