Tomorrow (Tuesday) I fly to Amsterdam and take the train to Den Haag for GUADEC 2010, joining 9 other Openismus employees: Karsten Bräckelman, Jens Georg, Ekaterina Gerasimova, Michael Hasselmann, David King, Andre Klapper, Chris Kühl, Jon Nordby and Patricia Santana Cruz. For Chris, Jon and Patricia, it’s their first GUADEC, so they are eager to [...]

Over the last few days, I added a Backup feature to Glom. It’s in Glom 1.14.4 that I released today. I don’t usually add features to stable releases, but this time it might help some people. The Export Backup menu item saves everything in a .tar.gz tarball, using PostgresSQL’s pg_dump command and tar. (I hate [...]

Qt has had an open bug-tracker for a few months now. I am very happy about that. It has made life far more pleasant for Qt developers compared to the past. However, there are some problems. In summary, bug reporters are often treated like the enemy instead of contributors, and this could be fixed easily. [...]

Tristan has been doing some challenging work for us recently, working on Glade, the GtkToolPallette, and finally finishing off the extended-layout improvements to GTK+ that Mathias Hasselmann started for Google’s Summer of Code in the days when he had free time. The extended layout fixes several user-noticeable problems in applications, making it easier for UIs [...]