Category Archives: Hacking

Dictionary Applet/7

Posted on November 24, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

New week, new adventures Actually, the number of new adventures has been strictly limited by my birthday first, and by a strange feeling of drowsiness that lasted all week (and still lasts as I’m writing this). Probably, it’s due to … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/6

Posted on November 21, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

The new GNOME Dictionary code has landed in CVS this morning! woot! I hope I didn’t fuck everything up – as usual when I’m dealing with CVS. viewcvs seems to be fine – and the tree seems to build. ATM, … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/5

Posted on November 20, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Don’t you hate it when you arrive near deployment stage and you have to get back to the design table because someone makes you notice that the architecture you’ve very cleverly layed out has one fatal flaw? Well, to be … Continue reading →

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Profiling GMarkup – Take 3

Posted on November 17, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Yesterday, I was attending the GTK developers meeting and I was asked by Federico what performances the BookmarkFile parser yields. I replied: ebassi: f_lunch, I/O plays a big role. a file with 3000 bookmarks gets parsed in 2 seconds, more … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/4

Posted on November 12, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

In order to let others know how’s the status of GNOME Dictionary Breaking is progressing (and in order to force myself working on it regularly ;-)), I’m sending the Not So Weekly Status Report on GNOME Dictionary Containing the status … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/3

Posted on November 7, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

In case you’ve been wondering if I had disappeared or something… I’m in the middle of a session of exams, this week (four of them, to be precise), and I’ve had to cut down hacking time; nevertheless, I’ve been able … Continue reading →

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Fastlove/2

Posted on October 31, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

GNOME Performance Love Day just ended. Bugs were filed, patches applied, applications profiled. A little step in the right direction for making GNOME faster. Thanks to everyone involved: you rock.

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Fastlove

Posted on October 28, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Sunday will be the GNOME Performance Love Day! The idea was first proposed on the #performance channel, after seeing that some of the initial performance related issues were simply lacking a bitof man-power, and weren’t that difficult even for a … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/2

Posted on October 20, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

As I said on the gnome-utils mailing list, the GNOME Dictionary codebase sucks. Well, it sucks to the very end of it. It really shows its age (it’s more than 5 years old), and suffers of what I’m used to … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet

Posted on October 9, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

With almost everyone in Boston, both the mailing lists and IRC channels are really quiet; feels a little weird – but I think it’s mostly envy for not being able to go to the other side of the pond and … Continue reading →

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