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http://www.curlybeast.net/

Bastien, this is the site I was telling you about, you have no excuses now

Quim Asked me to advertise this —> Looking for GNOME local groups

Promoting the brand is important and this years model competition was won by Sri

Has anyone else found that the Fluendo links for streaming GUADEC are failing with 404?

http://stream.fluendo.com/guadec/

Did I get the right address?

I managed to finally get Gossip 0.10 out!

I vowed to Kris I would do releases more often, for one thing, people kept telling my about bugs fixed over a month ago. So from now on, I will try to release monthly on average.

Everything was pretty smooth except for the first crash in a long time from Evolution (which is why I sent the mail announcement twice).

Update: The announcement with a list of changes can be found here: http://lists.imendio.com/pipermail/gossip-dev/2006-February/008508.html

Browser Thumbnails

Recently I decided to try IE7, since I was so pissed off with IE not supporting PNG transparency and the CSS problems compared to other browsers. The reason was to see if I should be bothered about making my home page fully compatible with IE7 or not.

In the process, I discovered that IE7′s beta 2 has support for thumbnailing pages you are currently visiting (which is pretty cool) and then I read an announcement regarding Opera’s latest and greatest supporting it too. After trying out IE’s new feature, I thought it was superb, until I found out about Reveal (a Firefox extension) which does exactly the same thing. The best thing about the Revel is that it is overlayed onto the current page you are on, instead of having to switch to another tab (as you would in IE). Plus it allows you to search all pages so you can quickly find the one you want to switch to! Well impressed!

Site Change

It is time to renew my site http://www.bytejunky.net and I decided that the name was pretty crap, so came up with another one http://www.curlybeast.net/

Updated Gallery

Not a great deal of new stuff really, and mostly family related due to the high number of birthdays this time of year and of course we have just had Christmas, but there are some scenic shots:

I think Sue is getting tired of me taking pictures of her with the new camera though:

GLib Threadpools

I have spent some time working on Glib recently to get sorting functionality working in async queues so that thread pools can be sorted by a user specified function. The main reason for this work was to remove the *very* old thread pool code that GnomeVFS was using (which was duplicated to some extent in gthreadpool.c).

I also added support threads to exit when they have been idle in the thread pool for a duration customisable by the application. This is an optimisation that was wanted to save resources on the Nokia 770.

Canon EOS 350D

OK, so for a while now I have been using an Olympus C460ZdelSol which is nothing special and I wanted to upgrade it to something more powerful, so I decided to get the Canon EOS 350D. I spent most the holidays with the laptop, manual and camera playing with the settings and understanding how it works. Now I think I will read it again

New Release – Today Mikael and I released Gossip 0.9. After a large refactor of the foundation code, further development has been made easier and overall we feel it is much more stable. It has been some time since the last release back in December last year.

There have been many changes, some of these include:
- A spell checker
- Updated contact information dialog
- Much better Drag & Drop usage

Generally just more polish everywhere

I have been working on getting multiple accounts working again in Gossip since the refactoring. Some of this work will be in CVS very shortly. I have taken things a bit further this time by actually allowing the user to select which account they do certain actions from:

Wedding – Things are heating up with only 3 weeks to go.

Sue had her Hen night lastnight. The girls really do know how to have fun, you just have to look at their costumes on the night and all the party things they bring back home with them.

My stag do is this weekend coming, should be a good fun, I tried to arrange it for the night before the wedding but Sue threatened to call it off

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