Constantinople,
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the song from the Decemberists, not the city finally arrived at Istanbul with the rest of the OH gang. it has been quite a trip, with a massive delay at Heathrow caused by bad weather ((I know, I know: shocker)). we landed around 2am local time and went straight to …
Shiny,
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courtesy of Ulisse Perusin, Tweet now has a rocking icon. since 0.2 has been released, I’ve also added: a status icon to show error messages and the number of new statuses inside a tooltip; when clicking on it, it will bring up the Tweet window and, more importantly …
Finally Woken,
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the first, alpha quality release of Tweet is available here. I’d like to stress out that this is an alpha quality release; I’ve been using it for a while, now, and nothing serious like the destruction of my hard drive happened but I cannot guarantee that it won …
Apocalypse Please,
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if you need to create a string holding a datestamp, please — for the love of everything that’s holy and just and pure in this universe — stop abusing the patience of everyone on this planet, and use the ISO 8601 format. formats not to use: seconds from the epoch - oh …
Pogo Stick,
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apparently, some people — and I’m looking at you, Pippin — said that the Tweet repository is hard to find: you actually have to search in my blog. well, not anymore: Tweet on GNOME Live complete with a screenshot of the new UI, as suggested by Matthew Allum:
Road to Somewhere,
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well, after eating my dog food for a while, it seems that Tweet is starting to get more useful. first of all, now Tweet has an authentication dialog which allows you to enter your username and password the first time you run it: and even verify them beforehand: then you …
Some Things Come From Nothing,
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json-glib: 0.6 is out! please: download it, test it, use it. as far as I know, it has been packaged for Debian unstable, and has entered the NEW queue (kudos to Rob Bradford, esquire and fine gentleman). debian: with the release of Hardy I decided to switch back to …
Sincerest Forms of Flattery,
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tidy: they say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery: the actual amount of code is quite small, and it’s already available in Tidy. challenges: Luca dared me into making a Clutter-based coverflow-like plugin for Rhythmbox, but it was Iain that picked the challenge up and wrote some …
Good Intentions/2,
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gtk+: I’ve been working again on the RecentManager and in trunk you’ll see some new stuff, namely: use GIO to determine the MIME type of a URI, on every platform supported use the file monitoring API to avoid polling the storage file add a GtkSettings property for clamping …
Being Luis Villa,
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iain‘s right: this is funnier than the history meme.