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I find it so amusing yet depressing how afraid your average engineer now is now afraid of a computer. My brother started his first real engineering job and rapidly found himself with a problem he needed to solve. He can’t … Continue reading →

But let us instead celebrate gobject-introspection. While there has been no official announcement, I think it’s probably time we declared telepathy-python to have passed away. Deprecated. In the great attic of the sky. The python-telepathy client-side bindings have been in … Continue reading →

In today’s PSA, mistakes with g_value_set_boxed(). A mistake that’s been made several times by yours truly, and only realised today thanks to Xavier. At some point in the GLib 2.22 cycle, types such as GArray, GPtrArray, GByteArray and GHashTable1 gained … Continue reading →

The GOPW application period is coming to a close soon, and so potential interns are currently getting their initial contribution in to qualify. Obviously the nicest way to submit your patch is as a commit, or series of commits using … Continue reading →

I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 today, which seems to have done a nice enough job of integrating GNOME 3.2, but I was instantly driven mad by all of my GNOME Terminals showing their menubars, in what appeared to be direct … Continue reading →

As part of a bugfix I did today1, I made a commit to remove a redundant class from Empathy, which made me wonder if there were any other redundant classes in Empathy. A quick grep of G_DEFINE_ told me there … Continue reading →

October 7th is Ada Lovelace Day. A day that showcases women in science and technology by profiling a woman technologist or scientist on your blog. This year I wanted to write about two women who I’ve met and worked with … Continue reading →

It turns out I’m really good at putting information into Tomboy and really bad at reading it back out, or changing it. I was going through old notes today, and besides the mass of phone numbers, promo codes, interesting URLs … Continue reading →

In light of OSCON adopting a code of conduct and anti-harassment policy, I was wondering, and even asked today, if the Desktop Summit has adopted an anti-harassment policy. Unfortunately I’m not going to make it to the Desktop Summit this … Continue reading →

My Thinkpad X200s is playing up, in that it will no longer suspend and sometimes the wireless stops working until I reboot. The suspend issue looks like an issue with the Thinkpad TPM, but that’s meant to be resolved, and … Continue reading →