Author Archives: Emmanuele Bassi

Something on my back

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

dear, all-knowing and all-powerful lazyweb; what’s the reason why python segfaults1 with this error message: TypeError: Cannot create a consistent method resolution order (MRO) for bases Container, Scriptable when I’m trying to instantiate a python class inheriting from a C … Continue reading →

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Odalisque/2

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

so, it turns out that the plans of releasing Clutter 0.8 right after GUADEC were a little bit on the conservative side, since Clutter 0.8.0 has been released thanks to all the contributors for bugs opened, patches written, tests performed … Continue reading →

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Odalisque

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

this GUADEC has been quite a ride, and we’re just halfway through. gtk+: the gtk+ team meeting on tuesday went really well — and part of the discussion was incorporated in Kris always excellent State of the union talk. the … Continue reading →

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Constantinople

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

the song from the Decemberists, not the city finally arrived at Istanbul with the rest of the OH gang. it has been quite a trip, with a massive delay at Heathrow caused by bad weather1. we landed around 2am local … Continue reading →

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Shiny

Posted on June 21, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

courtesy of Ulisse Perusin, Tweet now has a rocking icon. since 0.2 has been released, I’ve also added: a status icon to show error messages and the number of new statuses inside a tooltip; when clicking on it, it will … Continue reading →

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Finally Woken

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

the first, alpha quality release of Tweet is available here. I’d like to stress out that this is an alpha quality release; I’ve been using it for a while, now, and nothing serious like the destruction of my hard drive … Continue reading →

Posted in announce, clutter, tweet | 4 Comments

Apocalypse Please

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

if you need to create a string holding a datestamp, please — for the love of everything that’s holy and just and pure in this universe — stop abusing the patience of everyone on this planet, and use the ISO … Continue reading →

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Pogo Stick

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

apparently, some people — and I’m looking at you, Pippin — said that the Tweet repository is hard to find: you actually have to search in my blog. well, not anymore: Tweet on GNOME Live complete with a screenshot of … Continue reading →

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Road to Somewhere

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

well, after eating my dog food for a while, it seems that Tweet is starting to get more useful. first of all, now Tweet has an authentication dialog which allows you to enter your username and password the first time … Continue reading →

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Some Things Come From Nothing

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

json-glib: 0.6 is out! please: download it, test it, use it. as far as I know, it has been packaged for Debian unstable, and has entered the NEW queue (kudos to Rob Bradford, esquire and fine gentleman). debian: with the … Continue reading →

Posted in clutter, conference, crack, git, Hacking, json-glib | 2 Comments