Author Archives: diegoe

PiscoParty at GUADEC2008

Posted on July 8, 2008 by diegoe

We will have our traditional PiscoParty at the reception party (at the university) Wednesday night. We’ll make PiscoSour and if lucky Algarrobina. Drop by and grab a glass, there’s not much so… keep an eye on the Pisco Crew members.

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The Istanbul Agenda

Posted on July 2, 2008 by diegoe

FreeFA World Cup: All the fans of the most beautiful sport in the planet, deep lovers of the most important thing among unimportant matters. You are invited to come and join us in the fight for the supremacy, Tuesday 8th, … Continue reading →

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See you in Istanbul

Posted on June 27, 2008 by diegoe

Yay!. I’ll be seeing all you hippies from Saturday 5th (11pm) till Wednesday 16th (6am)!. I’ll be at the sponsored hotel as the cheap bastard I am. Can’t wait to smellsee you all!

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Evolution templates plugin

Posted on June 5, 2008 by diegoe

Like just published in evolution-hackers list: I spent the last few days hacking a plugin to reply messages with predefined replies, templates in my faulty english. I don’t know what would be the ideal steps to follow now, should I … Continue reading →

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How to know the return value of a command

Posted on May 18, 2008 by diegoe

Just do: $ echo $? and that’s it.

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Summer of Code

Posted on April 21, 2008 by diegoe

The results of this year soc has been published: GNOME SoC projects. And I’ll be mentoring Johan Svedberg in his project: Modern download manager for GNOME. My frog bro was selected for Mono: Visual XAML Editor. It will be a … Continue reading →

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Slow X rendering with sis driver

Posted on April 14, 2008 by diegoe

Everything slow when using X with the sis driver? Well, here it’s awfully slow, made me want to trash my old pc… but then I discovered this bug in Launchpad: lp #26637. Turns out that vesafb and vga16fb modules are … Continue reading →

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Coming soon to a browser near you

Posted on February 23, 2008 by diegoe

Epiphany with match bolding, substring matching, unicode searching and above all, the geekiest thing for a location bar: regexp support. Bug 517960 – Port the url bar completion func to GRegex

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My Christmas present: Notifications for Epiphany downloads

Posted on December 24, 2007 by diegoe

After some work, my patch for gnome bug #311209 was accepted by Christian. So now your download dialog will sport some bling!. The notification will popup when you start downloading something while the download dialog is hidden (not minimized, but … Continue reading →

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End of elections and some other things

Posted on December 12, 2007 by diegoe

Election is over!. It was quite an interesting ride to be a candidate, I got 52 votes which tells me that there are 52 foundation members crazy enough to trust me… you should go check your heads my friends. Seriously, … Continue reading →

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