Bruno Boaventura (brunobol) » General

The “Clockwise/Spiral Rule” to understand C

brunobol — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:45:57 +0000

Hey, take a look at http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html. Awesome way to understand C declarations.

About renewing membership on GNOME Foundation.

brunobol — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 06:00:56 +0000

First of all, being part of GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee is a work that no much people wants to do. The biggest cause of this is that our work is sometimes not observed and recognized.

As part of Membership Committee since 2008, I was always confuse with our “renew” process. Always wondered why it was that way, but I would not change by myself (there was a time I was alone in the committee, because no one wanted to help).

I have some thoughts about this:

1. Excluding people who have contributed in the past is something rude, really. It’s do not give value the contributions made by that person. The contribution made by that person helped GNOME to get where we are today.

2. Renew application every two years is so much boring.

Thinking this way, the best thing to do is abolish the renew process. But we must be careful about who can vote and determine the direction of the project. That’s my opinion, but we have ~350 members. We need to take the decision together.

I agree that our policy is not ideal, but the rules and timeline (considering that we are using our “not ideal” policy”) was clear for everyone since the elections announce. What *WE ALL* need is to worry a little bit more with our bureaucratic things.

It’s so freaking awesome!

brunobol — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:24:21 +0000

GNOME 3 is awesome!!

GStreamer things…

brunobol — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:44:55 +0000

Dear Lazyweb,

I’m thinking (just thinking, for now) how to write a guitar tuner for GNOME using GStreamer. Can anybody tell me if is it possible? If so, what classes or plugins of GStreamer I have to use?

I really don’t know anything about these audio things, so I need a jerk on the slope. Thanks!

She arrived!!! And… I’m a fresh dad!

brunobol — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:47:28 +0000

Mariana was born on October 20, 17:26h (GMT -3). Since then, her father does not sleep well at night.

We’re pregnant!

brunobol — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:23:04 +0000

Hey guys! I have wonderful news! Paula (my wife) is pregnant!

We don’t know if will be male or female, but certainly will love GNOME.

The names we chose:

Pedro (if male)
Mariana (if female)

Global keybindings in GTK+

brunobol — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:32:32 +0000

Dear lazy web,

How can I add some global keybindings in a GTK+ application? Something like GNOME-do does…

The Story of Stuff

brunobol — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:54:46 +0000

Take a look at “The Story of Stuff” and see how we are destroying our planet and how important is we change our life’s style.

And the name is…

brunobol — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:52:11 +0000

Hello you all! Thanks for comments on my previous post. I’m a very encouraged artist now.

I’ve selected the best name for the Simon clone: Garfunkel. Thanks to Christian Sasso, who suggested the name. Do you like it?

For those who wants the SVG, checkout it from the gnome-edu module at GNOME Subversion repository.

I’m working (slowly, because I have not many time) on the code and I’ll release it as soon as possible.

Dear Masters of the Coding Art,

What is the best way to draw the SVG (please keep in mind I’m writing a game) into the widget? Using LibRSVG and GdkPixbuf (as in Monkey-Bubble) or using rsvg_handle_render_cairo? Thanks for your very welcome help.

Another name for GSimon

brunobol — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:10:48 +0000

The new (temp) name of GSimon is Genius. I’m still checking for legal issues related to this name, but I think is a good name for a Simon clone.

Also, I left the direct drawing on Cairo to use librsvg (which can bring up different themes for the game). I’m not a good artist, so what you think about the default theme?

Comments are very welcome. I need an icon for Genius too.