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Bridges and Balloons

after a rather interesting, albeit not really eventful, journey that spanned cars, buses, a train, and a plane, I’m finally in the lovely Brno — with 2 degrees Celsius and a lot of snow — for the 2012 GTK+ hackfest. … Continue reading

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Days of Elaine

oh man, it’s getting harder to find blog post titles… clutter 1.8 — last Friday I rolled the first release of the new stable 1.8 cycle, and Rob rolled the first stable release of the now standalone Cogl. it’s been … Continue reading

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Down by the Water

it’s been far too long since the last London GNOME Beer meetup, and we also have the excuse occasion of celebrating the imminent 3.2 release of GNOME. so if you are a GNOME user or developer, or if you just want … Continue reading

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The Perfect Crime #2

so, I found this little fella sitting on my desk: who was apparently reported as missing in action. let’s see if we can find a new home for it…

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I was meant for the stage

like a lot of Gnome developers, I’ll also be at the Desktop Summit 2011 in Berlin: I have a talk on Saturday at 11:20, and I’ll have the Board meetings contending for my presentation, hacking and meeting time during most … Continue reading

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This is Why We Fight

one thing that bugged me since the implementation of the Clutter animation framework in its current form was the property access API in GObject — especially the boxing/unboxing of GValues. since GLib 2.28 2.24 we had a new macro (G_VALUE_COLLECT_INIT) … Continue reading

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All Arise

congratulations to everyone who contributed — feature, widget, application, translation, one-liner, documentation, art, design. you all rock my world. today I’m immensely proud to be a GNOME developer and user.

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I’m sticking with you

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January Hymn

as usual, I’m pretty lame at blogging about what I do. I decided to break the silence1 because a couple of awesome things happened these final days of January. gnome-utils: after years of neglect, and due to a spectacular sugar … Continue reading

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GObject Hint/1

if you need to store a Unix Time timestamp inside a GObject property, use an int64 as the property type. don’t use a GTimeVal, and above all: don’t even think about adding a GType for GTimeVal inside your own project. … Continue reading

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