Fastlove,
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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 …
Dictionary Applet/2,
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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 …
Dictionary Applet,
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With almost everyone in Boston, both the mailing lists and IRC channels are really quiet; feels a little weird - but I think it’s mostly envy for not being able to go to the other side of the pond and hack away. Thus, staying here means choosing between 1. cleaning …
Profiling GMarkup - Take 2,
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Here we go again profiling GMarkup. Finally, I’ve been able to compile sysprof, and launch a profiling session of the BookmarkFile parser under it. This time, I’ve been using a 1.6MB file, with 3360 bookmark elements. Just to shed a bit more light on the storage format …
Thumbnails,
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Today I had a couple of hours to spare at the university, so I decided to implement a couple of items in my “to do” list. The first is the creation of a simple function for adding items to the RecentManager - ideally, it should require just a URI and retrieve …
Recent Documents Applet,
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This applet is a demonstrator of the new RecentManager API. It’s a panel applet showing the list of recently used resources; the list may be filtered by date. Each item is droppable inside each application recognizing URIs targets. Note: This is only a technology demonstrator; nobody uses the …
Gtk2::SourceView,
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Finally, after a more then a year of testing inside CVS, Gtk2::SourceView made it to the public. This Perl module is a wrapper around gtksourceview, the C library used primarily by Gedit. I’ve began writing it in January 2004, after working on Gnome2::Print (libgnomeprint(ui) Perl bindings …
Scary Voice Over,
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Since last tuesday, I’ve done little to nothing on the “hack” side; I’ve began a little project in Perl that should resolve in a backup manager (it’s called Hudson), but mostly I’ve done some code polishing to the libegg/recentchooser code, following the notes about the …
Yarrr!,
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T' me, Yo, Ho, Yo, Ho, It's "Talk Like A Pirate" Day! That time in September when sea dogs remember That grown-ups still know how ta play! When wenches are curvy and dogs are all scurvy And a soft-wear patch covers your eye, Ta hell with our jobs, for one …
Cleaning up,
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life: after the “exam craze” (two in five days) that took the best part of the week, me and Marta have resumed cleaning up the house. Since I have moved in with her, there has been so much work to do that we haven’t really felt the whole “moving …