Category Archives: Coding

GNOME Summit, day 3

October 9, 2007 – 12:42 pm

Day 3 started 10:00 with summaries. Rodrigo gave a detailed summary of the control center discussion the previous day, and we had quick reports from the other sessions of the previous day. The day was much like the other: people hacking and talking and a few sessions. I didn’t get to the *Kit sessions (PolicyKit, […]

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GNOME Summit, day 2

October 8, 2007 – 9:23 am

I wanted to write a quick summary of yesterday … this isn’t going to be as detailed as my description of day 1, since I’m writing it while waiting for people to show up so we can start. On the other hand, with the beer summit last night, people might not be showing up too […]

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GNOME Summit, day 1

October 6, 2007 – 8:19 pm

Just got back home from day 1 of the GNOME Summit. So far, my overwhelming lesson is that if you put 50-odd GNOME hackers together in a couple rooms with power and network, they know exactly what they want to do. They want to a) hack and b) talk to each other. So, the bulk […]

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Upstream GNOME as a product

September 27, 2007 – 5:52 pm

GNOME releases chug right along: every 6 months we have a new release with a big slew of new features. But most of the changes are really narrow and incremental. It’s really hard to do a feature that requires changes in multiple places in the stack; that requires new API at the library level. This […]

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A quick intro to the Mugshot data model

July 24, 2007 – 2:21 pm

One thing I’ve been working on over the last few months is creating a flexible way for software running within the online desktop to retrieve information from the server. I’ve been calling this the “data model”; it’s not a single piece of software, but rather a set of concepts, protocols, and software components that all […]

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