Cody Russell

Hacking

I’ve been working on a GnomeCanvasEditableText item off and on recently, but my classes and work have kept me really busy so I haven’t gotten it working yet. I’m afraid it may not be ready by the API freeze on Tuesday or Wednesday, or whatever day it is.

I also started hacking together a new Cell type, ECellArt, for ETable/ETree a couple days ago. It takes an SVP from ETable’s value_at() method and renders it onto a drawable. There are still some issues with it, and I’m not really in any huge hurry to finish it until after school is out. I think it’s a cool item, but I’m not sure how practical it would be to put it into GAL, so I might just keep it in Ludwig van.

Classes

School is almost finished. Whee! I had two physics tests yesterday. Monday I have a paper due for German. I have to write it about a movie of my choice, so I am choosing to write about The Conversation I think. I haven’t started on the paper yet.

Quartet music

I’m really looking forward to Peabody. I hope I get into a good quartet. I discovered another beautiful quartet piece recently that I want to play. It’s Langsamer Satz by Anton Webern. Gorgeous. Really, really beautiful.

Jen

I tried to email Jen to see if she recorded Tau’s performance of the Waxman Carmen Fantasy in Annapolis, but I never can remember her email address because she changes it every few weeks so I always end up writing to a couple dozen email addresses. I got a response today from someone who isn’t her, and wasn’t too happy to get my mail. This person must have gotten stuff from me in the past and just didn’t say anything, but now is pissed.

New CDs

I bought recordings of Mahler Symphonies 7 and 10 (Cooke, of course) today. So far I’ve only listened to 10. It’s Berlin Phil with Simon Rattle, and it rocks. However, the Mahler 7 is Pierre Boulez with Cleveland Orchestra, who, of course, rules all. But you know this already.

I really dig Mahler now. Wtf was wrong with me before?

CDR drive

I sent my CDR drive in for repair a couple weeks ago, and I got it back a few days ago. I just re-installed it last night and tested it, and it works again. Whee!!

Gnome 2.0 book?

I found on pricescan.com, a book called Gnome 2.0 Application Development, published by Sams in October 2000. wtf? Sams generally publishes pretty shitty books for actual existing platforms, so I can only imagine how terrible this book must be if it discusses a platform that is just now beginning real development.

PHP

I started learning a little PHP, but it won’t be for a couple weeks that I will have enough time to really go after this.

Library work

For some reason, I put myself down for 20 hours of work for the symphony library for this weekend. wtf was I thinking? I have a test on Monday, a large amount of homework due on Tuesday, and two tests on Thursday.

New text item for canvas

I’m hacking on Joe’s GnomeCanvasRichText item. It seems good, and so I’m dropping all my work on GnomeCanvasEditableLabel that I did in favor of Joe’s. It uses Havoc’s GtkTextLayout, which is the main reason it’s better than mine.

Sun’s Gnome UI report

I haven’t finished reading it all yet, but a group of user interface people at Sun published a document about the state of Gnome’s usability and a style guide. I haven’t gotten to the style guide, but so far this document is already great.

Practice

Practice hasn’t been so good this week, and I don’t think it’ll be good until after next week. Perhaps not even until classes are finished. I’ve been practicing Bach, but I think now that I need to switch to Schwanendreher for my Peabody orchestra audition. The Bach is just not going to pull together in time. It was doing really well for several weeks, but then I just had some downtime and didn’t progress very well for a couple weeks, and it’s really affecting the Bach a lot. I also need to really work on my excerpts.

Committed

I think my cvs commit log says it all:

For a real laugh, build this and run ludwig.

Ludwig van on GTK 2.0

After spending a shitload of time over this whole weekend, I finally got Ludwig van and test-ttf to compile and link against GTK+ 2.0 and Gnome 2.0 libs. It’s a pretty large patch so far–189k.

Not surprisingly, both of them just crash as soon as you try to run them, so I can’t post any screenshots with anti-aliased fonts or anything cool like that yet.. but it’s a starting point.

Tree update

I updated the ETree tutorial at hadess‘s request.

Kiss of the Dragon

I saw this movie today. I actually sat all the way through it too. This was quite an effort on my part.

I’m not normally really highly demanding that a plot be great or anything when I’m going to see a typical Hollywood action movie. I’m not that picky, I mostly just want to see people get their asses kicked. Furthermore, I’m a big fan of Jet Li. I love most of his movies. I walked into that theather knowing I would enjoy this movie because:

• Jet Li is the star of this movie, and
• It’s really hard to fuck up a simple plot for a simple movie like this enough to piss me off

All I can say is, “What the fuck??” Why were a bunch of French policemen trying to kill this one particular Chinese guy? They had to have had something against Jet Li’s character or something, because if they just wanted to frame a Chinese guy as dobey insists, they picked the Wrong Fucking Dude. And they knew this because he’s reputed to be the best agent there is.

wtfever. I think dobey is pissed at me for trashing this movie on #gnome IRC. I’m sorry, dude.

ETree tutorial

I’ve been rearranging my homepage some, and I moved the ETree tutorial. If you have the old page bookmarked, it’s okay, it’ll give you a link to the new page. I’ll also add a new ETable document soon as well. The past couple days I was working on a new dialog box for Ludwig van that made use of both ETable and ETree, although now I think I’m going to remove the ETree and use an ETable in its place as well. Anyway, so I’ve now made my first ETable. Of course, if you can make one then the other is really simple. I’ll try to make my tutorials work together if I can.

Evolution

Unlike Black & White, Ximian’s groupware application, Evolution, just keeps getting better and better. The contact manager is really nice, and is more usable than Outlook’s. I wouldn’t say anything else in it is particularly better than Outlook yet, but it is certainly better than anything else on Linux at this point. I’ve been using it as my only mailer for several months now, and it’s been very good and stable, with only a few problems here and there that get fixed quickly.