Now that Glom is in feature freeze, and the time approaches for a Beta release, I notice that it’s still not in Fedora Extras. Would someone like to take care of the packaging for that?

Ever since I visited the Unto This Last shop in Brick Lane a couple of years ago I’ve always wanted some of their (flat-pack) furniture. And now I have a home to put the stuff. But unfortunately they can’t deliver outside of the UK. If anyone reading this happens to be driving from London to [...]

The ever helpful Jonathan Jongsma is now officialy co-maintainer of cairomm, on which gtkmm 2.10 will depend. I wanted him to take over completely, but he’d like to keep it co- for now. I don’t expect any major changes, but we should expect that high Jongsma quality. I don’t think he has a blog yet, [...]

I’d really like some tool (ideally, g++ based) that shows me what parts of compiled/linked code are generated from what parts of C++ source code. For instance, to see whether a particular template is being instantiated for hundreds of different types (fixable via a template specialization) or whether code is being inlined excessively, or whether [...]

At some time I’ll have to implement a type of printout or report in Glom that uses fixed positioning. For instance, to enter text into the correct spaces on pre-printed forms, or just so that printouts always look the same. At the moment, printouts take up as much space as necessary, and flow appropriately (I [...]

Extending Glom via python is such a marketable feature that I spent a couple of days to add a button layout item so it’ll be in version 1.0. Glom already supports calculation of field values with python, but this allows arbitrary actions when the user clicks the buttons, equivalent to FileMaker’s “scripts”. The example has [...]

We’ve managed it. We found a three room Altbau (pre-war building, but possibly code for “high ceilings”) in Munich’s Glockenbachviertel, with rent a little under our limit, and without an agent’s fee (usually 2 month’s rent), noch.

It’s just across the road from our favourite cafe – Cafe Maria (too cool to have a website), [...]

Every now and then I search for new information on my Travelmate 4101WLMI laptop in case someone has had more luck getting all the components to work. I found a note on the German Ubuntu site suggesting that I boot with noapic (in /boot/grub/menu.1st) instead of pci=noacpi (which is itself better than acpi=off). I was [...]