Author Archives: Emmanuele Bassi

I was meant for the stage

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Emmanuele Bassi

like a lot of Gnome developers, I’ll also be at the Desktop Summit 2011 in Berlin: I have a talk on Saturday at 11:20, and I’ll have the Board meetings contending for my presentation, hacking and meeting time during most … Continue reading →

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This is Why We Fight

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Emmanuele Bassi

one thing that bugged me since the implementation of the Clutter animation framework in its current form was the property access API in GObject — especially the boxing/unboxing of GValues. since GLib 2.28 2.24 we had a new macro (G_VALUE_COLLECT_INIT) … Continue reading →

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All Arise

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Emmanuele Bassi

congratulations to everyone who contributed — feature, widget, application, translation, one-liner, documentation, art, design. you all rock my world. today I’m immensely proud to be a GNOME developer and user.

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I’m sticking with you

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Emmanuele Bassi
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January Hymn

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Emmanuele Bassi

as usual, I’m pretty lame at blogging about what I do. I decided to break the silence1 because a couple of awesome things happened these final days of January. gnome-utils: after years of neglect, and due to a spectacular sugar … Continue reading →

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GObject Hint/1

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Emmanuele Bassi

if you need to store a Unix Time timestamp inside a GObject property, use an int64 as the property type. don’t use a GTimeVal, and above all: don’t even think about adding a GType for GTimeVal inside your own project. … Continue reading →

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Code Quality

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Emmanuele Bassi

Morten, it’s actually my fault. the patch that was submitted was the incorrect one; I’ve been fixing the implementation since then, mostly because the API is correct — and went through different eyeballs to ensure that — and we wanted … Continue reading →

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Walk the line

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’ve noticed that I haven’t blogged about JSON-GLib in a while. since the last time, I release version 0.10, which had a lot of fixes in the JSON ⬌ GObject transformation code, thanks to the contributions of Tristan Van Berkom. … Continue reading →

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GTK+ Meeting @ GUADEC 2010 – update

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Emmanuele Bassi

since I’m stupid and I scheduled the team meeting before I could actually be in The Hague, I had to move the meeting. and, again, since I’m stupid I managed to schedule it against important talks of the day — … Continue reading →

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GTK+ Meeting @ GUADEC 2010

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Emmanuele Bassi

GUADEC is one of the rare occasions for the people hacking on gtk to meet face to face and use a high bandwidth channel to discuss development of everyone’s favorite toolkit. I’ve reserved a room under the BOF schedule page; … Continue reading →

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