We (Openismus) recently got our GtkToolPalette widget into GTK+’s git master, to be seen in recent GTK+ 2.19 (unstable) tarballs. We haven’t had much extra time for this kind of thing, so I’m glad it’s finally done after being worked on now and then by Mathias Hasselmann, Jan Arne Petersen and Johannes Schmid. Thanks to [...]

I’m pleased to say that Peter Penz will become an Openismus employee at the start of February. I’ve known and liked Peter since I worked with him six years ago in Linz, Austria on a proprietary C++ mobile phone platform. Back then I was impressed with his skill and temperament so I’ve watched with interest [...]

December’s long season of presents is over and Liam is now two years old. He’s recently started the famous language explosion, learning several new words each day. He’s obviously aware that he speaks two languages, now learning to say both words instead of preferring the first one he’d learned. He still prefers hand gestures where [...]