Jonathan Blandford » intlclock http://blogs.gnome.org/jrb ChangeLog Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:32:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Edmund James Blandford http://blogs.gnome.org/jrb/2007/11/20/edmund-james-blandford/ http://blogs.gnome.org/jrb/2007/11/20/edmund-james-blandford/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:04:40 +0000 jrb http://blogs.gnome.org/jrb/2007/11/20/edmund-james-blandford/
  • life: Edmund James Blandford was born November 15, 2007 at 4:01 PM EST. He was exactly eight pounds heavy and twenty inches long at birth. Mother and Son are doing well. We aren’t sleeping for particularly long stretches, but are happy that he is healthy and here.
    Edmund
    Edmund getting ready to return from the hospital
    Eleanor doesn’t know what to make of her brother yet, but is sweet and welcoming so far. She has been growing up so much recently; I hope she isn’t too put off by his arrival. She has been running up to him and saying ‘hi!’ while he’s in the kitchen.
    Eleanor and Edmund
    Eleanor and Edmund
  • intlclock: I am glad that Federico is looking at merging intlclock upstream. I have wanted to see intlclock make it into mainline GNOME for a while, and it has definitely gotten more interesting for the wider exposure. While Federico is probably right that that code is not super efficient, I don’t think you can actually do a lot better than calculating the Sun’s position per-pixel when calculating day/night. That code is certainly a lot simpler than trying to project the circle onto our map projection. It also gives us the chance to calculate things like twilight, and adjust the shading of the pixel (and clocks) appropriately.
  • intlclock (background): One of the cooler features in Fedora 8 is the timelapsed background support that Søren wrote. The default background will get brighter as the day goes forward, and darker as night approaches. The times this happens are hardcoded into the slideshow, though. Given that we have some lovely code in intlclock to determine the sun position at a given location, and also know exactly where we are, it would be a pretty neat extention to tie that to the background.
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