October 6, 2009 – 10:27 am
Today is my last working day at Novell. Its my first company from campus and having spent 8.5 years at Novell, it is sad to part away. The last 6 years with Nat, Miguel, Michael, JP, Guy, Aaron, Fejj and many more was the best in my career and they all helped me a lot while [...]
August 5, 2009 – 11:11 pm
Over the last weekend, I was bored and previous friday I had a talk my with nice mentor Michael on calendars for the netbooks. All that triggered me to spend some time during the weekend on this new stuff. Basically I just hacked Evolution, to make it possible to write an external calendar application to fit [...]
Moblin 2.0 is announced, and I can be more open now. Before I start with anything, one thing that I missed last time. The ‘new-ness’, ‘awesome-ness’ of Anjal’s UI, *FULL* credits of the UI design goes to the Intel UI Team, specially thanks Nick Richards, Hylke Bons, and Clarie Alexander. I really donno [...]
What is Anjal?
Anjal is a new mail UI created on top of Evolution. It would have a very interesting UI & features, that would make it the very suitable for low memory/processor/resolution devices. It is Evolution & EDS at the back of Anjal. We have broken down Evolution mail library to a smaller component and [...]
February 1, 2009 – 10:33 pm
It was Saturday morning 2:00 am when I published the tarball. So what’s special?
This is the first additional release past the regular stable of GNOME 2.24.3. We saw that the 2.24.x series brought regressions due to the disk summary work. With every stable release we made it better and we thought it might be [...]
November 2, 2008 – 9:53 pm
I just returned today after a 10 day vacation for Diwali. Reaaaly away from mails, blogs, code and now I must have a huuge back log and a release tomorrow . Oh, I took Mysore express to reach bangalore, which is a 13 hour overnight train ride from my town to Bangalore. I got [...]
October 3, 2008 – 1:43 pm
I have delayed my blog for Evolution 2.24, since I was waiting for Tor and Bharath to complete the Windows port. Yes, Evolution for Windows is available. Click here to download Evolution on Windows . Kudos to Tor (who intially ported base Evolution/friends to Windows) & Bharath for their work. They also had a equivalent [...]
August 1, 2008 – 10:05 am
We released 2.23.5 with the basic merge of disk summary. Ever since, It has become a busy working week. Working more than 12 hours day and almost all 7 days of work for me. It happened that Sankar’s db search didn’t work well for us and I started writing a sexp to sql parser and [...]
Pretty late blog, but really busy. I landed in Bangalore on July 14 8am to attend a 5 day out-door training starting at 10am. Lucky that the timezone difference isn’t very bad, I happened to manage with my training.
Guadec:
Nice parties and thanks to all their sponsors and GNOME.
Had nice discussions/talks with Michael, jpr, hpj, Miguel, [...]
I’m gonna start to Istanbul for GUADEC 2008 in another 2 hours. I should be there Sunday evening at Istanbul and would be staying till July 13. I’m gonna present two talks
Evolution On disk summary
Evolution, the Road ahead
These explains about some of the interesting things that we are working for Evolution, for GNOME 2.24 and [...]