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Ingredients for Engineers…

So Lode Vermeiren pointed me out to cookingforengineers.com. Fear.

Ingredients

So it always intrigues me about recipe books, having seen Jamin’s post [and nothing against his recipe that he just posted], that all the recipes have exact proportions. It’s like 1/4 teaspoon of this, or 1 cup of that, or 300g of those. Fuck me. Cooking should be about imagination. I want recipe books to say the ingredients are ‘rice, olive oil, sherry, garlic…go play!’ and even then, being able to substitute ingregients for what you’ve got in the cupboards is the real skill.

Eugenia’s Stop Energy

So Eugenia, there’s a lot of stop energy going along. If you had been at GUADEC, and met the people involved in the project you would have realized how much this negative commentary affects the project. We had an awesome conference and are all so hyped up with new motivation and energy. This stuff isn’t useful, or helpful, or even factually correct.

FWIW, Owen is definitely someone who cares very greatly about the project, especially about performance and stability. But you’ve never met him, right? Because you’ve never been to GUADEC, or any other GNOME conference or summit because you continue to hide behind shit like this.

If you’re going to contribute, do it usefully – and believe me, we’d all love you to do that.

Another One Joins the Fray

Rad! John Rice has started blogging. John’s a member of the desktop team that people might have met at GUADEC. He also attended the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board on behalf of Sun. Nice to see more people blogging with lots of interesting stuff to tell – although the first post is admittedly quite boring 😉

GNOME Versus CDE

Really great to see my colleague Johan starting to blog, and hopefully the rest of the team will follow. His first piece ‘GNOME versus CDE performance on SunRay’ is definitely worth a read.

Del.icio.us

So somewhere along the line I missed the del.icio.us fad. Initially, from Jon’s screencast I guess I wasn’t really impressed at how useful it would be. Then overnight Alan Coopersmith set one up internally. Sun’s SWAN [Sun’s internal network] is pretty frustrating to navigate around and find things. We already have some cool things like OneStop [a portal for most projects within Sun] and an excellent indexing and querying engine, but I think Alan’s work is going to be a significant help to my life in Sun. Thank you!

GNOME Women

Women on Planet GNOME. Welcome Hanna, and every success with GNOME Women! Rad!

101 Things to Know about GNOME

I put up my slides here.

For The Record

For the record, the 2 Robert’s are shit–stirrers. I’m not getting married or engaged just yet. Don’t feed Havoc beer after midnight. Don’t talk the next day – biggest hangover for a while, and completely mixed up my words during the talk.