Life is so good, it gets better every day

Pushing The Blog Lines – Live and Uncut, Right?

Had a pretty excellent few days with Domhnall and Lynda. On Friday night we headed up to Maruia Springs – a Japanese thermal bathhouse about 3 hours from Christchurch. After a few days climbing out in Castle Hill and the local Britten Crag, it’s the perfect end to a week – not just because it’s the opportunity to bath in the buff, so to speak.

That night we sat out in the 24 hour rock pools with a bottle of wine – it was all pretty cruisey, and we were virtually on our own. While the rock pools had a strictly ‘keep your pants on’ mandate, the private segregated baths the next morning were ‘pants off’! Of course Patrick was caught with his pants down taking a picture of Domhnall and me by the cleaner – quite embarassing for the poor chap.

Using DTrace to Understand GNOME

Bryan Cantrill has an awesome blog entry about using DTrace to understand GNOME. I think most of the I/O activity is probably already known by a lot of core developers of the project, but having that information easily available is just incredible.

Once again, feel free to check out Solaris 10, and try DTrace out yourself! I’m pretty sure Bryan would happily field any questions you might have. Hop on to irc.freenode.net and join the #opensolaris channel.

Aside, we’re making some pretty good progress in getting JDS ported to 2.10 and out onto OpenSolaris.org – I’ve been slacking off the past week, but the Arvind, Bala, Brian, Damien, Laca and Matt combo have been doing an excellent job. Still tripping over the ‘What is OpenSolaris?’ questions within the team, and trying to figure out how everything will work down the line. I’m pretty confident we’re 100% on the right track though – continue watching this space!

You Fucking Idiots – What Do You Think You’re Playing At?

I’m right, you’re just wrong. No matter how many times I think that in my life, it’s hardly the need to resort to something more than words. What a deeply fucked up world we live in. As always, hoping that everyone’s friends and family are ok in London.

Domhnall and Lynda – Live and Uncut in NZ

Domhnall and Lynda arrived from Perth on Wednesday – it’s been nice to see them again, and we’ve just been hanging out. Took a trip out to Castle Hill yesterday, with some glorious weather compared to Christchurch. Today we’ll plan for a wander around town, a trip out to the local crag and a few pints in town later on.

Ailing Sun Desktop…Where?

I think I should clarify about our supposedly ailing desktop. It’s not ailing, it’s in fantastic shape and we’re going places. We’ve already been shipping JDS on Solaris, and the code is already available. We’re just moving our development processes onto OpenSolaris.org. We’re admittedly taking our foot off JDS the distribution while we go to focus on other things [doesn’t mean we won’t come back to it!], but JDS the desktop is alive and well – a subtle difference in brand naming that confuses a lot of people.

JDS and OpenSolaris – A New Beginning

After much heated discussion internally, I finally sent in the proposal for starting a new OpenSolaris JDS Community. These are pretty exciting times – it pretty much guarantees that we’ll be more open than ever before, and I can only think that GNOME will benefit greatly from that. It’s also the first time in a while where I’ve been 100% focused on what I’m doing – we’ve always had the distraction of other things that I’ve tried to throw myself into as much as possible, before getting yanked out to do something else.

I wrote up a short presentation on how things might look, what challenges we face and what goals we have for the community. Watch this space – or better still, join the new JDS OpenSolaris community!

Although somewhat related, this is a bit cheeky.

New Baby!

Congratulations to Mikael and Carina – awesome news about their new arrival, Emma.

On the Verge

It’s amazingly frustrating when you’re on the verge of something cool, that you want to be a part of, and then your mail goes down for the day. With that, and the GNOME servers being down to kill my blogging muse, the timing has been impeccable.

Not What I Expected

Oh man, my sister, the geek. I guess I shouldn’t be so shocked. For all those who haven’t seen it, the Open Language Tools project is definitely worth checking out, being currently led by another family member [grin].

101 Things to Know about GNOME

In case anyone missed it, we now have the full multimedia experience for my talk in Stuttgart, minus the hungover as hell Irishman. Thanks heaps to Kris for putting this together.

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