Martyn Russell

Thanks to Ross (for knocking it up) I now have a face to my blog!

GUADEC Photos – So Ross managed to capture my evil twin at the GUADEC party standing next to Dave Malcolm (who looks worse for ware)

Some of the photos showing up post-GUADEC are cool. It is a shame Mikael and I didn’t have a camera to capture Glynn running from the German police at the end of the party really – when you got to go, you’ve got to go!

libtool on Windows – So I have been trying to get libltdl work on Windows to automatically load libraries at runtime for plugin support. This stuff is not nice, I was trying to use libltdl from a library and found out that you can’t do that until v2.0 of libtool (on Windows) and that there are problems particularly with MSYS. It is all going now, I had to use libltdl from an executable instead. Thankfully, after speaking to Tor at the GUADEC party, he told me about libtool-cache which speeds things up considerably. This is really needed since creating processes on Windows is expensive and given the number of times that happens when using GNU’s auto tools you can imagine how slow things get

Blog move – Jeff has now moved my blog over from Advogato onto planet.gnome.org, cheers dude

GUADEC – So my first year at GUADEC was so amazing. Had a superb time. Some of the talks I found especially interesting, cool and funny were:

- Robert’s talk about Gnome, memory, and some new kernel abilities we should be using
- Owen’s talk about Cario
- Nat’s lightning talks
- Glynn’s 101 things to know about Gnome.

So I met so many really cool hackers at GUADEC this year and as Ross points out, Bastien needs a new hackergotchi. I like Ross’s knocked up replacement – it seems much more fitting

I need a hackergotchi – perhaps you could do the honors Ross?

Also, managed to bag a Nokia 770 – they are uber cool!

While at the GUADEC, I managed to get some bugs fixed during the hackfest too. Overall a wiked conference.

Gnome Bounties – Good news about Google splashing out for Gnome bounties.