Glom now lets you browse the local network to open a document already opened by someone else, so you can easily both use the same database system.
That adds a new button in a file chooser dialog (though it doesn’t use the file system or URIs). This has complicated our already odd start-up dialog. We have […]

A few weeks ago I lost my Samsung X460 “Handy”, after breaking the previous one of the same model.
The X460 is more perfectly formed than any newer phone I’ve found so I wanted to get an X460 again, but that seemed unimaginative and I wanted Bluetooth so I could back up my telephone numbers, and […]

After much struggling with branch merging and fighting with incompatible scratchbox rootstraps, an alpha version of Glom is now available for Maemo’s new Chinook SDK, in the extras repository. Thanks to Armin and Johannes.

Software developers might also be interested in the dependencies that we packaged, in addition to the existing gtkmm and hildon*mm libraries: libglademm, […]

I already mentioned some good GNOME board candidates for 2007. Now the bad:
Jeff Waugh is a psychotic failure, obstructive and destructive. He is poisonous people. Some details:
His favorite tactic is to somehow take responsibility for some team or task and then do nothing, preventing anyone else from doing anything either. Inquiries will be ignored repeatedly […]

Some thoughts about the candidates that I’ll be voting for, and why:
The successful board
Typically, a successful board member will achieve just one big thing and three or four much smaller things. The board as a whole will achieve maybe three big things. Some of your big things will not reach completion. If you focus on […]

I’m very pleased with the libepc library that Mathias Hasselmann created for Glom. I much prefer having the Avahi and network communication wrapped up in a simple separate library rather than mixing it in with Glom’s source code. I don’t want to deal with avahi, libsoup and gnutls if I don’t have to.
Glom will […]

A couple of days ago, Google sent me an email complaining that my blog (this one) contained hidden text advertising viagra, and threatening to remove it from their index. To my surprise, they were right.
The HTML was coming from the Wordpress code itself, somehow via the call to wp_footer() in the theme’s footer.php. My theme […]