Openismus now has its third (after me and Johannes Schmid) employee, also part time: reclusive Berlin genius Daniel Elstner. In October he’ll start doing some work with gtkmm for a client, and writing some documentation for a project that Johannes has been doing. His enormous brain will also be very useful for bouncing ideas off. [...]

An Openismus client demanded that all email communication with them should be over TLS tunnelling, with the mail server being on-site, so my regular hosted mail accounts won’t do, and even a hosted server wouldn’t be enough. Frankly, I’d rather not have the trouble and expense of maintaining my own servers, but it’s a nice [...]

So, I should finally get around to describing my trip to Romania. I returned two weeks ago, but I’ve been busy since then, and it takes ages to upload pictures on my crappy far-slower-than-advertised T-DSL line. It was an incredible three weeks, so this will be a long blog entry, even though there’s lots more [...]

Gallery doesn’t yet automatically rotate images using the EXIF orientation data that newer cameras save in the file, though it will soon. In the meantime, jhead can automatically rotate the images, like so:
jhead -autorot *.jpg
And I think that’s lossless. You can run it on already-uploaded Gallery images from the terminal.
By the way, it looks like [...]

I finally read the introduction to Adobe’s ASL GUI system, and its Adam and Eve parts. Ralph Thomas has been using it to write his Mission Photo application, so it seems to work. It’s great to see the rationale documented publically, and I guess that Adobe will profit from the feedback. Design is so much [...]

I need to set up a TLS-capable email server (which I will access via IMAP), so that the messages are encrypted between my email server and the recipient/sender’s email server.
Initial investigations show that my pessimism was appropriate – I can’t find much clear information about how to do this. Ubuntu do a server release now, [...]

While I was on holiday, a couple of Glom reviews appeared:

Xaprb’s A review of the Glom graphical database front-end
Ryan Paul’s Cool App Of The Week on Ars Technica

Both reviews are generous and kind. They understand what I’m trying to offer with Glom while forgiving it for not yet being perfect. I agree with Xaprb’s review [...]