Fer's blog

I spent all the morning sending CVs to London recruiment agencies. I’m going to London next Saturday and I need a job there. I’m a bit worried about not getting an IT job, because then I won’t have internet connection and I won’t be able to make GNOME releases during August.

I watched again Tacones Lejanos ten years after the first time. Realized how much do I admire Marisa Paredes, how wonderful is Agustin Lara’s Piensa en mi song performed by Luz Casal (my other version is, of course, Chavela Vargas one). Also noticed now the score by Ruychy Sakamoto, and the Tasca where Miguel Bos

Today is GNOME 2.7 Feature Freeze day. So I had few hours to implement some features I wanted on gconf-editor and gnome-keyring-manager. During the evening I added a new option to gconf-editor to show last modified keys:

Then I went to a birthday, and came back at 6am, but I mixed my drinks with Red Bull, that is lthe coffee for the fashion hackers. So Here is it, ACL view/edit support on gnome-keyring-manager:

Now I need some sleep and maybe we can do the xml-rpc stuff in libsoup.

Thursday night I went out with lot of friends, doing a tour for Madrid ancient bars. From 9pm till 7am. 10 ca

Yesterday I watched three films: Coen’s masterpiece Blood simple, Woody Allen’s bananas and current GNOME hackers Top movie: Black Cat, White Cat (gpoo and markmc already enyoied it, what are you waiting for?)

gnome-keyring: I committed ACL API to gnome-keyring, so now some gnome-lover should add ACL view/edit to gnome-keyring-manager. Caleb did a nice post about gnome-keyring

Some days ago I wanted to burn a cd for a friend with a Juan Diego Florez recital. I didn’t want to do it manually, so I tried nautilus-cd-burner. As the code wasn’t there, I wrote a quick hack for it. Then I asked hadess about it, and the response was that there was code for it but it was removed because nautilus is not supposed to write other things than files. The correct place was rhythmbox. But as I use muine I tried to add support to it for burning cds with current playlist. As a quick hack (another!) I tried to modify muine gst_play wrapper class, but I failed to set up correctly the filesink. Today I got the code again and decided to write my own Recorder class. Now muine can burn a cd with you current playlist:

Now I need to do some boring stuff:

• a dialog asking the user to insert a blank CD
• add #ifdefs to player.h, because I only added support for gstreamer
• rewrite the cd drive selection ui: Currently I’m using an GtkEntry for setting the drive path because I cannot use BaconCdSelection because GtkComboBox is not supported on Gtk# 1.0

I went Friday night to Plaza Mayor to listen Daniel Barenboim conducting Beethoven’s 3rd Synphonie with Berlin StatKapelle. It was in memorian for 11-M victims. Really bad acustic, but exciting anyway. Then some mojitos at Taskopolis and Ohm clubbing.

Saturday another argentinian playing: Ariel Rot. Nice to hear his new songs and old ones from Tequila and Los Rodriguez (I really love “La milonga del marinero y el capit

I waked up at 16:00 (I really needed to sleep after the weekend and Opera
tickets story). However it has been a really productive day. In the GNOME side
I did a bunch of stuff:

* gnome-keyring: I implemented the ACL API needed by gnome-keyring-manager. I need mariano review before sending it to Alex.

* bugzilla: I fixed the bug-buddy import that was not working after the boxes update. Now I’m importing 1500 queued bugs. Thanks to jrb for fighting with the sudo magic.

* gconf-editor: Finally implemented search. I follow clarkbw UI idea. Really nice to have a widget like gedit-output-window, kudos to Paolo for it!. It’s intereting to see how little time/effort took it to me. It was one of my first GNOME coding try and I remember it took me one full night and didn’t work very well. Here is a screenshot:

Now it only needs some more love to select the right key in the right panel.

Really cool GUADEC in Kristiansand. Some interesting “official” talks and lot of informal ones. Beer was really expensive, but salmon and catfish was cheaper than in Spain. I took the return plane at 6:30 am that is painful.

Granada: 24 hours after GUADEC went to Granada for the weekend. We arrived just in time to go to a Festival de musica y Danza concert. I enjoied a lot Ravel’s piano concert. As always, lot of fun at night. Historial drag show by Raul at Fondo Reservado:

… que parezco Shrek

– Eso es por el vestido verde!

– No bonita, eso es por las orejas y por el culo. Ademas yo ya tengo dos peliculas, y otros se pasan la vida entera comiendo pollas y no tienen ni un miserable corto porno. Lo maximo a que llegan es a grabarse 10 segundos con el movil y con eso tienen para un mes….

Teatro Real Opera seasson: When we arrived from Granada we went directly to Teatro Real queue for opera seasson tickets. We stayed there disccontinuosly from Sunday night until Tuesday morning. Kind of fun Monday madrugate, playing Trivial Pursuit, Tute, singing and eating cholocale. Finally we bought tickets for 6 people, moved from premiere to “f” turn and got better seats. This year Juan Diego Florez is going to sing Il Barbieri. Iker, Luis, Mario, Isaac and so…. expect some great opera and pub nights

Yesterday I went to dinner to one of the best restaurants in Madrid: Las cuatro estaciones. I ate so much that I had to go bed at 3am. I wake up at 7:30 am. My plan was doing siesta in the afternoon, but I began to do some gconf-editor hacking, implementing browsing defaults/mandatory settings.

We have two new members in “La Espiral”. Frightening.

Lot of sports this week. Estudiantes lost the Basketball final against Barcelona. But Iban Mayo won the Dauphin