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  1. , — Don’t you hate it when you arrive near deployment stage and you have to get back to the design table because someone makes you notice that the architecture you’ve very cleverly layed out has one fatal flaw? Well, to be honest, I hate it and yet I love …
  2. , — Yesterday, I was attending the GTK developers meeting and I was asked by Federico what performances the BookmarkFile parser yields. I replied: ebassi: f_lunch, I/O plays a big role. a file with 3000 bookmarks gets parsed in 2 seconds, more or less (cold cache). ebassi: f_lunch, which, I think …
  3. , — Marta, as an early (a week early) birthday present, bought me Dancing Barefoot, the first book written by Wil Wheaton. It arrived today, and I literally devoured it in an hour. Wil writes gorgeously. I found myself smiling, grinning or plain laughing out loud while reading it. As a trekker …
  4. , — This has totally made my day. [doom] [doom+video+billgates]
  5. , — In order to let others know how’s the status of GNOME Dictionary Breaking is progressing (and in order to force myself working on it regularly ;-)), I’m sending the Not So Weekly Status Report on GNOME Dictionary Containing the status of the review-slash-breaking-slash-rewrite process of …
  6. , — I saw today on the Planet that Miguel linked the documentary filmed by italian jorunalists working for the italian public broadcaster (RAI, which oddly enough should be, and is written as, an acronym but it expands to nothing). It was broadcasted on the satellite channels, and announced the day before …
  7. , — In case you’ve been wondering if I had disappeared or something… I’m in the middle of a session of exams, this week (four of them, to be precise), and I’ve had to cut down hacking time; nevertheless, I’ve been able to commit a set of fixes …
  8. , — GNOME Performance Love Day just ended. Bugs were filed, patches applied, applications profiled. A little step in the right direction for making GNOME faster. Thanks to everyone involved: you rock.
  9. , — Sunday will be the GNOME Performance Love Day! The idea was first proposed on the #performance channel, after seeing that some of the initial performance related issues were simply lacking a bitof man-power, and weren’t that difficult even for a beginner; mainly, at this point, lazy loading of shared …
  10. , — As I said on the gnome-utils mailing list, the GNOME Dictionary codebase sucks. Well, it sucks to the very end of it. It really shows its age (it’s more than 5 years old), and suffers of what I’m used to call design by accretion. This particular technique of …

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