Last week I took the contract here in Munich that I mentioned, so other large projects will have to wait for at least six months. I’d rather be coding with GNOME, but I’m really pleased that for once I don’t have to go away from home to earn the rent. That also means that I’ll […]

In the last few days I’ve tried installing both Fedora Core 5 and Ubuntu Dapper Beta on my Acer Travelmate 4101WLMi (i915 graphics version). There’s a huge difference compared to earlier versions, such as Ubuntu Breezy. I didn’t need any extra boot options, and I get working networking and audio, though FC5 doesn’t ship the […]

I find svn branches a bit confusing, because they feel like directories. You specify branches as part of the path to the directory, rather than separately, and it seems that, if a branch doesn’t exist explicitly, some directories don’t show up in trunk (the svn equivalent of SVN’s HEAD). This doesn’t seem useful.
For instance, in […]

If nobody else gets around to it, I might have to implement the Web interface for Glom myself. But I haven’t done web programming recently and I’m very out of touch with the latest stuff. The last time I did any, JSP was the nobody-ever-got-fired-for choice.
It just has to read the Glom .XML file and […]

I recently had to create modified versions of some debian packages, to apply some custom patches and use some special compilation options for a scratchbox environment. It was time that I learnt something about actually making debian packages. These were packages that Daniel Holbach couldn’t do for me, but he did explain some stuff, which […]

I noticed on planet.gnome.org that MediaWiki 1.6 was released, finally with a captcha plugin to prevent spam. and I’ve just upgraded. So I have now unprotected most of the pages (tell me if I’ve forgotten any) and allowed account creation again. Now you can fix my errors.

I didn’t get a response to my previous request, so I’ll be clearer. I’ll transfer 100 Euros to a native Romanian speaker who records the following as Ogg Vorbis or MP3, in a clear slow voice, and provides the text for it, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence. Please mention it in my blog comments […]

I am really pleased to see Shaun’s great new GNOME Platform Overview documentation. It’s familiar information to regular GNOME developers, but we forget sometimes how essential this is for developers who are new to GNOME, so actually writing that up was neglected for a while. It’s also great to see how many important pieces of […]

There’s a company in the U.S. that needs to give its developers some gtkmm training. It’s a serious offer from an (unnamed) serious company. They probably just need someone capable to present the basics, and help them through some simple examples, all of which is written up in the gtkmm book already. Email me if […]

I’ll be visiting Romania this summer for maybe three weeks. First stop will be the Temesoara/Temeschburg area in the Banat. My girlfriend and her ethnic-German family lived there (”Gross Sankt Peter” and Bogarosch villages) until they emigrated/escaped mostly en masse from Ceacescu’s paradise in the 80s. Lots of good stories there. Hopefully we’ll also get […]