We need another full-time developer at Openismus to start in a month or so. You’ll ideally be a resident of Germany and you’ll have common sense and visible experience with GTK+ and some of the GNOME technologies such as D-Bus. I’m mostly interested in a C coder at the moment, but experience with Python and/or […]

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been gradually pulling glibmm’s gio wrapper into shape. It provides a gtkmm-like API for the new gio I/O API in glib 2.15/16. It’s available in the glibmm 2.15.x tarballs, and will be API stable in glibmm 2.16 (Tarballs, svn).
There are a handful of giomm examples in the gtkmm-documentation […]

I’m regularly annoyed that no stable version of Ubuntu has a bug-fixed version of Glom. For instance, Ubuntu Gutsy has Glom 1.6.0 and the ubuntu-updates policy does not allow it to have Glom 1.6.6. Unfortunately Glom 1.6.0 and some dependencies have bugs making it mostly unusable, such as a failure when changing field types, and […]

On the 29th December 2007 at 16:55, Liam Kiefer Cumming was born, 50cm long and weighing 2610 grams. I’ve spent most of the day in the hospital since then, including a ridiculously happy new-year’s in the Kinderstation changing and feeding him together as a family when the clock hit midnight.

Early on the morning of the […]