Author Archives: Emmanuele Bassi

Good for the Soul

Posted on May 2, 2009 by Emmanuele Bassi

today was Free Comic Book Day and Marta and I decided to go to a comic book store and get some new additions to the ever-growing collection we have at home. we opted for Gosh as we read a week … Continue reading →

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My dear Evolution,

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Emmanuele Bassi

please, please stop the utter madness of not showing email addresses in the to: and cc: fields if they match an entry in the addressbook. I’m writing an email. therefore it is safe to assume I know what an email … Continue reading →

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Dream About Flying

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Emmanuele Bassi

as usual — long time, no blog. my only excuse is that I was busy with other things: new job, new office, holidays… you know, whatever happens between coding. :-) it’s that time of year again, and we’re nearing another … Continue reading →

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Paint the Silence/3: Gran Finale

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Emmanuele Bassi

the third and final installment of the ongoing saga thanks to Damien, I finally found a way to shut up libtool and get a clean output for the build of a project: shave. Clutter is the first project using it, … Continue reading →

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Last Ride In

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

last night I could not sleep, so I decided to upgrade my old WordPress 2.0.11 (yes, you read that right — 2.0.11) installation to the New! And! Improved! hotness of WP 2.7. unfortunately, something went very wrong in the conversion … Continue reading →

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All the Old Showstoppers

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

okay, new rule1: it’s okay to install a GObject property like this: pspec = g_param_spec_string (“title”, “Title”, “The title of the item”, NULL, G_PARAM_READWRITE); g_object_class_install_property (gobject_class, PROP_TITLE, pspec); instead of the usual way you see in other GObject-based libraries, where … Continue reading →

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In the Mood

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

well, I failed at blagging each day of the User Experience hackfest, but mostly because of the sheer amount of discussions, designs and work done. during the first common session on monday we all decided to split off into four … Continue reading →

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Flying Teapot

Posted on October 5, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

final checks and the usual ohmygodwhycan’tIfindanything mode before I take the flight to Boston for the User Experience hackfest organized by Owen, Federico and Vincent. Neil and I will be talking about Clutter, what it does, and what it can … Continue reading →

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Stuck with me

Posted on August 10, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

guadec 2008: I’m late, but I wanted to thank everyone in the GUADEC team for making this edition of the conference really rocking. thanks to everyone. clutter: well, after the 0.8.0 release during GUADEC things have slowed down — but … Continue reading →

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When the World Ends

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’m delaying my sleep time further on, after two hours on IRC discussing the gtk+ 3.x issues spawned by Miguel’s blog post, because there are a few points I’d like to make. discussion: the first, and foremost, is: let’s not … Continue reading →

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