Days of Elaine,
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oh man, it’s getting harder to find blog post titles… clutter 1.8 — last Friday I rolled the first release of the new stable 1.8 cycle, and Rob rolled the first stable release of the now standalone Cogl. it’s been six months of intense development, with lots …
Down by the Water,
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it’s been far too long since the last London GNOME Beer meetup, and we also have the excuse occasion of celebrating the imminent 3.2 release of GNOME. so if you are a GNOME user or developer, or if you just want to meet GNOME hackers here in Good …
The Perfect Crime #2,
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so, I found this little fella sitting on my desk: [caption id=”attachment_410” align=”aligncenter” width=”384” caption=”Have You Seen This Gnome?”][/caption] who was apparently reported as missing in action. let’s see if we can find a new home for it…
I was meant for the stage,
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like a lot of Gnome developers, I’ll also be at the Desktop Summit 2011 in Berlin: I have a talk on Saturday at 11:20, and I’ll have the Board meetings contending for my presentation, hacking and meeting time during most of the conference — but every minute I …
This is Why We Fight,
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one thing that bugged me since the implementation of the Clutter animation framework in its current form was the property access API in GObject — especially the boxing/unboxing of GValues. since GLib 2.28 2.24 we had a new macro (G_VALUE_COLLECT_INIT) that avoided doing unnecessary work, but the end …
All Arise,
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congratulations to everyone who contributed — feature, widget, application, translation, one-liner, documentation, art, design. you all rock my world. today I’m immensely proud to be a GNOME developer and user.
January Hymn,
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as usual, I’m pretty lame at blogging about what I do. I decided to break the silence ((on the blog; I barely shut up on Twitter)) because a couple of awesome things happened these final days of January. gnome-utils: after years of neglect, and due to a spectacular sugar …
GObject Hint/1,
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if you need to store a Unix Time timestamp inside a GObject property, use an int64 as the property type. don’t use a GTimeVal, and above all: don’t even think about adding a GType for GTimeVal inside your own project. first of all, because all that you can …
Code Quality,
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Morten, it’s actually my fault. the patch that was submitted was the incorrect one; I’ve been fixing the implementation since then, mostly because the API is correct — and went through different eyeballs to ensure that — and we wanted to land it before the GLib freeze. the implementation, alas …