March 14th, 2009 by mr
Baby Coming!
Sue is about to have our baby (expected date is the 18th of March), she really can’t wait for it to be born now and neither can I! Right now I am just trying to get as much sleep as possible in preparation 
We don’t yet know if it is a boy or a girl so there is an added excitement after waiting 9 months not knowing. Sue thinks it is a boy, I think it is a girl.
Tracker Release
Yesterday I released Tracker 0.6.91, which follows the recent 0.6.90 release that we did after 12 months of solid development on the project. I say we, there is quite a huge team working on this project now, including Carlos Garnacho, Ivan Frade, Jürg Billeter, Philip Van Hoof, Mikael Ottela, Urho Konttori and many more. We have a preliminary roadmap (as mentioned here) for Tracker too. This recent release and possibly one more will be the last before 0.7 which will include Jürg’s vstore branch (which we have been working on in parallel for months now). We also had a discussion about the current architecture of the project and decided to change some of the roles around regarding what the indexer and daemon currently do to make things more efficient. With this all in mind, I am expecting some seriously good fun on this project in the next 3 months.
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February 17th, 2009 by mr
Lanedo GmbH has taken over the majority of the business that Imendio AB has been running over the past 5 years as the founders have decided to step back for personal reasons.
Lanedo GmbH is still employing the same people that have GTK+ and Maemo expertise with the exception of the founders of Imendio AB.
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November 30th, 2008 by mr
I haven’t done much on Gossip in a while. Been rather preoccupied with Tracker recently.
Today I managed to add a feature which uses the text under the mouse pointer to search with Google, Wikipedia and Youtube. Right now those are just hard coded, but I had in mind, to make it configurable.
Web Services
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April 7th, 2008 by mr
Recently I set up a new blog for GTK+ to document releases and for people to blog about cool new things in GTK+. So far, there is just Andreas and myself on the blog. So if anyone else wants to be added just let me know your blog email account and I will set it up. If you have been missing the GTK+ project news, don’t forget, it can be see at http://planet.gnome.org/news/, it is not shown on the regular http://planet.gnome.org/.
Andreas has been doing a great job chasing up some final issues on gtk.org, mainly with regards to the language bindings. Andreas has now removed all bindings that have no support for 2.6 and above and all bindings which are supported by GNOME are illustrated nicely too. So, if your language binding isn’t listed there and you know it is supported, please let us know on the gtk-devel list so we can rectify the pages!
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February 1st, 2008 by mr
Yep, I am off to New Zealand for my vacation from February 1st to the 29th with Sue.
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January 29th, 2008 by mr
I started working on the new design for gtk.org last April and tonight the new pages were uploaded and we now have a spiffing new look which I am really happy with.
I want to thank Andreas Nilsson for helping out with the design and Tim Janik for help with the final touches in getting the pages installed, not to mention everyone who commented.
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October 2nd, 2007 by mr
I managed to upload my images from our holiday in Tuscany yesterday. We managed to see Lucca, Pisa, Siena and Firenze. Very relaxing and highly recommended.
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October 2nd, 2007 by mr
I’ve just caught up on the last 100 blogs I have been neglecting for the last week or so (due to being quite busy recently) and I think it is sad to see people so easily offended by blogs from people like Miguel and Davyd.
I think people miss the point. People blog about what they want to blog about. It is the writer’s choice to write what they want as much as it is the reader’s choice to read what they want.
Feel free to ignore my blog
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August 30th, 2007 by mr
Spent last bank holiday weekend in Vienna with Sue for our anniversary. This city is spectacularly beautiful and has some of the best architecture.
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May 30th, 2007 by mr
Over the past month or so I have had a few contributions to the maintainer python script I started writing a while back to help maintainers with the laborious tasks carried out during a release.
Lucas Rocha sent me a great patch for including the help manual translators to the release note generated.
Xavier Claessens is using the script for his Empathy releases and added support for getting the project website (and adding it to the release note) and making it possible to run the “install-module” script on master.gnome.org.
So thanks to both for their contributions!
I decided to add support for generating the email you send so all you have to do is literally click “Send”. It saves a lot of time and works quite nicely.
Try it out:
http://developer.imendio.com/projects/misc/maintainer
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