bugs: There are forty bugs against the screenshooter! It just takes screenshots, for heaven’s sake — how can it be that buggy?? It looks like I’m definitely going to spend some time going through these bugs soon. The highlight of these is a patch from Dan Winship to draw the cursors in the [...]
Category Archives: bookworm
Tue 21 Oct 2003
October 21, 2003 – 11:11 am
bookworm: It’s getting to be in pretty good shape. There aren’t too many crashers that I know about, and Zana’s definitely able to add more books. I also have another potential user, bringing the grand total of known users to two!
computer: I bought myself a new computer! It’s the first desktop [...]
Fri 10 Oct 2003
October 10, 2003 – 1:27 am
work: I’ve been wrestling with rhgb for the last week or so. I’m still not really satisfied that we’ve gotten all of the kinks out of it, but it’s much better than it was last week. We’ve gotten it to the point that it doesn’t slow down the boot much more than it booting [...]
Wed 01 Oct 2003
October 1, 2003 – 1:27 am
Bookworm: Did a lot more work on this tonight. Found a tricky little bug in Library.py that I have now fixed. I feel like I could have done a nicer job of the overall design in places, but I’m pretty happy with how the code is looking. I got it so that [...]
Sun 31 Aug 2003
August 31, 2003 – 1:34 am
GNOME Lore: Apparently not everyone in the GNOME project knows what a Soptimization is. It’s a %0.001 speed up of code at the extreme cost of readability.
Bookworm: Elliot Lee’s wonderful db to Python class code is really making this easy to write. I’m almost at the point where I can make a [...]
Thu 28 Aug 2003
August 28, 2003 – 10:25 am
Bookworm: Made much more progress. It’s looking really nice now. Still have a lot of code to write, but I can see doing a public release this weekend.
Mon 25 Aug 2003
August 25, 2003 – 10:29 pm
GNOME: Had a surprisingly productive day building packages. Libtool still makes me contemplate taking up self-flagellation as a hobby, though.
Maintenance: I had to leave work a bit early to get my car from the repair shop. A gasket in the oil tank started leaking. As is typical with the problems with cars, [...]
Sun 25 Aug 2002
August 25, 2002 – 6:55 pm
work: Been a really hectic month. I’ve been working 12-15 hour days the last month or so on the next Red Hat release. It’s somewhat therapeutic to go through a bug list, and just close as many as you can. On the flip side, these hours are getting very old. Zana’s [...]
Sun 04 Aug 2002
August 4, 2002 – 12:22 am
typography: At the GNOME Boston Summit, Owen gave an excellent talk about the parallels between typography and gui design. He made the point that a lot of the rules and conventions that typographers have are generally applicable to ui design. Typography as a field has had 500 years of trial and error to determine [...]
Sun 07 Jul 2002
July 7, 2002 – 11:46 pm
sick: I’m a bit better, and will try to go to work tomorrow.
music: Zana and I got a fantastic new set of speakers a couple weeks ago. Sibelius Symphony no. 3 (performed by the London Symphony Orchestra) was on the radio tonight. It was wonderful to sit back and code to it. [...]