Monthly Archives: June 2008

23.06.2008 Writing Unit Tests with GLib

Every other week, someone asks how to use the new unit testing framework in GLib (released with GLib-2.16.0) and Gtk+ (to be released with the next stable). First, here is a write-up from last December that summarizes all important aspects: Test Framework Mini Tutorial.

For people building packages that use the new [...]

16.06.2008 Sinfex - Simple Infix Expression Evaluator

The XML GUI definition files used in Rapicorn and also in Beast (described briefly in an earlier blog post) supported a simple $(function,arguments…) evaluation syntax, similar to GNU Make. I’ve never been very happy with this syntax, but it was fairly easy to implement at the start and followed naturally from early $VARIABLE [...]

02.06.2008 LinuxTag 2008

Just like LinuxTag last year, I went to Berlin the past week to help running the Gnome booth for LinuxTag 2008.

Due to a sports accident, our booth bunny Sven Herzberg unfortunately couldn’t make it, so on Tuesday I took over booth management and merchandise from him and hurried [...]

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