I spent the weekend at the FOSDEM conference, an impressively chaotic meeting of diverse software developers. At any one time, there were three talks that I’d like to have seen, and there were so many great people there that I usually got waylaid on the way to talks. All of these people really need to [...]

After my 3 previous posts, I decided to get serious. I tried four different USB wireless adaptors – the most widely available ones that were most likely to work based on my previous entries. I knew one of them would work, but I wanted facts.
My interpretation of “widely available” is “available from Amazon”, partly because [...]

Glom’s relationships overview bounty mostly complete, thanks to Rasmus Toftdahl Olesen, with code checked into Glom.

Hmm, that window title is obviously wrong. I’ll fix that.
We still need to implement right-clicking to edit a table’s relationships from this overview. I’d also like some horizontal lines in the relationship connection lines, where they meet the table rectangles, [...]

I made some of the suggested improvements and put the document somewhere more permanent: Dealing With Zealots In Open Source Communities.

libgda and libgnomedb provide a generic database API and UI for a variety of database systems, built on glib and GTK+.
The version 3.0 C++ bindings (libgdamm and libgnomedbmm) are taking shape pretty well, along with a task-orientated tutorial for C++, and reference API for libgdamm and libgnomedbmm. The libgda and libgnomedb C documentation is also [...]

Some people who I respect have recently been surprised and frustrated by the extreme responses they’ve encountered in the wild outer badlands of various free software forums. They thought it would be a good idea to provide an introduction for others, so this doesn’t come as a shock. This is my first draft. It’s still [...]