Author Archives: Emmanuele Bassi

Cleaning up

life: after the “exam craze” (two in five days) that took the best part of the week, me and Marta have resumed cleaning up the house. Since I have moved in with her, there has been so much work to … Continue reading

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Requirements

Using advogato (and my log), since I’m not on the Planet (yet). I’ve just read Daniel’s post, and since shame is a powerful drive, here’s my non-requested answer. I’m one guy – quite possibly, the only one – that switched … Continue reading

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EggBookmarkFile

hacking: That is, the GMarkup-based XBEL parser that should be used to parse “desktop bookmarks” (recent files, filechooser’s bookmarks, default locations, etc.) Today I’ve worked hard on the namespace parsing mechanism, and even though I feel like it’s a little … Continue reading

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Profiling GMarkup

Since I’ve been re-writing the XBEL parser in order to use GMarkup in place of libxml2, I’ve also felt the need to get some profile going. I’ve always felt that one of the biggest bottlenecks in the recent-files was its … Continue reading

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Surgeon

Today, Marta went to Trento to visit some relatives of hers, so I spent the entire day alone. I’ve studied for a while (I have a OS exam monday, mostly Linux-based on the case studies, even though the kernel shown … Continue reading

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xavier

xavier Originally uploaded by ebassi. A couple of weeks ago, me and Marta had some spare time on our hands, and since I had “retired” my old server (wolverine) before leaving for Amsterdam, I needed a new linux box doing … Continue reading

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GoogleTalk

Seems that this is the new hotness. I’ve had a GMail account for some time now, and GMail really changed the way I use email everyday – at least until Google added POP/SMTP support, then I got back using a … Continue reading

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RecentChooserWidget/1

The EggRecentChooserWidget code is in CVS since a bunch of minutes, complete with a context menu allowing the removal of items from the list, the ability to add a custom RecentManager instance instead of using its own (still requires some … Continue reading

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RecentChooserWidget

I’ve pretty much finished my EggRecentChooserWidget widget, which (I noticed) is roughly modelled on the Document History window of the Gimp: Also, as you can see, I’ve enable the filtering code, so that you can now filter the contents of … Continue reading

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Wild life

You can’t say to have done any good deed, unless you saved a week old cat from death.

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