I use Scratchbox a lot to do embedded GNOME and Maemo development work. When it works its wonderful, compared to all the other crappy embedded development environments I’ve had to use. But scratchbox is rather fragile. There’s a lot of theoretical things to discuss about Scratchbox and alternatives, usually mentioning OpenEmbedded. I don’t bother with [...]

Today is Gnome 2.19/2.20 API freeze day, as per the schedule, and I’ve just released the API-frozen glibmm 2.13.x and gtkmm 2.11.x tarballs. This is always stressful, but Jonathan Jongsma and Marko Anastasov reviewed the new glibmm 2.14 API and new gtkmm 2.12 API, finding some of my inevitable errors in the API and the [...]

I’m now happily using VMWare Workstation 6.0 to check some build errors in Ubuntu Gutsy without risking an upgrade of my actual system. I have used VMWare Workstation 5.5 lots, but the need to rebuild the kernel module with vmware-config.pl every few weeks (when the Ubuntu kernel was updated automatically) tended to break my habit, [...]

I’m back from GUADEC in Birmingham, but I have some more recreational travel ahead of me: August 3rd-10th: Edinburgh and North Berwick, Scotland August 11-12th: Bucharest, Romania August 18th-25th: Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy We had also planned a trip to Hong Kong and Taiwan, but had to cancel. I learned some Cantonese (10 Pimleur lessons), but [...]

This evening I fly to Birmingham, UK for the GUADEC Gnome conference. I’ll arrive around 23:00. I’ll be there for the core days – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. I’m staying at the Etap hotel, where Johannes Schmid and Daniel Elstner from Openismus also have rooms. Unfortunately, Christian Kellner had to cancel due to an unavoidable [...]

The days are busy right now, but I found time to Inkscape up a design and get just a few Openismus T-Shirts printed in time for GUADEC in Birmingham. The conference is gradually becoming as much a T-Shirt swap meet as a developer conference, so it’s obligatory. Hopefully it’s simple and eye-catching and a little [...]

cairomm has switched to git. I have no need for what git offers, being quite happy with svn, and I’m generally annoyed at having to change the tools I use unnecessarily, but Jonathan Jongsma does most of the cairomm work so he gets to choose. So far I’m learning how to do the basic stuff: [...]

Over the years, I’ve accumulated a large list of bugs to which I’ve added myself as CC in bugzilla. I do this when someone mentions something (in a mailing list, blog, or IRC) that looks like it should affect lots of people or will affect one of my own projects when it’s fixed. This helps [...]

Digging around in the GNOME event box revealed a flag, in addition to the other new stuff:

I finally found the time to go into the cellar and see what came back from the Berlin LinuxTag in the GNOME Event Box. Here are some pictures of what I found. They are available to all the events organizers who request the box, along with the LCD screens, wireless keyboard/mouse, wireless router, cables, etc: [...]