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Medusa updated to gtk 2.4
I finally found time to update Medusa's desktop tool to GTK 2.4. The code is smaller too since modern GTK widget have the right behavior be default. I never did locate the cause the error that Msearch used to report, but it is gone now. I suspect it was …
Some Interesting Jobs
If you are looking for a gig that lets you apply your mad GTK skillz, then you should review a few opportunities I discovered recently.
- C/C++/UNIX Sr Software Developer (GTK)
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From the position description:
Senior Unix C/C++ Software Developer candidates with five+ years of application programming experience …
Go Native
Jeff's and Miguel's recent remarks regarding Java performance and .Net portability respectively failed to address the crucial flaw in the Java argument.
I ran starry-eyed into the arms of Java 9 years ago. I build enterprise Java applications in my sad day job. I think I can speak with authority …
One small step for innocence, one giant leap for stupidity
Today I decided to take a few pictures of the area I work in. Innocent enough, but life abhors innocence like nature abhors a vacuum. This is a map of the area I work, posted by the local government I assume.
[Carlyle business complex in Alexandria]
Both the US Patent …
Five Star Stories distractions
Issues 19 and 20 of Five Star
Stories
arrived for my weekend reading. 
I love this manga series. I struggled to read it in
Japanese, with little success. It's a grand story of the last age of
humanity, wars, chivalry, and awesome machinery, but I read it for the
romance …
Replacing the GNOME software map
I'm making a repository and publisher tool that will replace the aging and crippled GNOME software map. Edd Dumbill is working on DOAP that will allow projects to publish their vital information so that it can be aggregated by sites like GNOME and Freshmeat. By registering a public DOAP file …
Ten Year of Linux; Slackware (1994) vs. Fedora Core 2 Test 3 (2004)
I just upgraded to FC2 T3, for no better reason than I wanted to get GNOME 2.6 without building a second desktop with jhbuild. I really enjoyed spatial nautilus and templates before I had to rebuild my notebook. I hoped that my small orinoco_cs problem would also disappear too …
A few notes in between sneezes.
Last week I was struck down my allergies. I started making mistakes converting developer.gnome.org to UTF-8 and XHTML. Nor could I focus in my day job.
I spent a lot of time in Bugzilla reviewing patches. By Sunday morning, we had gone from 1703 to 978 unreviewed patches …
Join Ross
The instructions are: Grab the nearest book, open it to page 23, find the 5th sentence, post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions
He had discovered a pile of ancient clay tablets - shattered, scattered, and illegible - and he had set himself the impossible task …
Beware of the Monkey God
I brought most of www.gnome.org up to XHTML compliance last weekend. There is some PHP changes to do, but we may just pull PHP from the site all together. The GST and GNOME-Network projects may want to start making plans to switch from PHP to flat HTML.
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