After years of loyal effort, I conclude that I have Bruce-related anterograde amnesia: The inability to form new memories of any song by Springsteen after Tunnel Of Love.
It happens with Prince too, triggered halfway through Lovesexy.

Jonathon Jongsma recently fixed up the “Programming with gtkmm” book so the result of docbook2pdf is fairly useable. We’d like to improve it even more and maybe sell hard copies online. But I think we need more control over docbook2pdf (a wrapper for jw). For instance:

We need to scale images down instead of cropping them.
Ideally, […]

I’ve got to know goocanvas (API documentation, browse CVS) better over the last week. I achieved what I needed, but it could have been easier.
No generic positioning of items
You can’t set the position of goocanvas items. Well, you can set the x,y position of a GooCanvasRect, and you can set the points in a GooCanvasPolyline, […]

As mentioned before, Glom needs a more precise way to specify print layouts, for instance to print on a pre-printed form. I’m looking at the problem again. At the same time, Johannes is working on a prettier drag-and-drop UI for Glom’s regular (automatic) view layouts.
For now, I think I’ll start with text areas that don’t […]

September was a pleasantly quiet month, giving me time to do all kinds of paperwork and minor jobs that have been lingering on my to-do list for a while.
It also gave me time to get a Playstation 3 and feel a little less out-of-date. My experiences:

I felt incredibly uncoordinated after years of no gaming. It […]