Some readers may remember that I spent some time working on a DateTime structure for GLib last year. After much refinement by others better than myself, it has been included in GLib master. Much thanks to Thiago Sousa Santos, Emmanuele Bassi, and the countless reviewers.
You can find some quick examples here.
GDateTime is both [...]
As suggested by Benjamin, I switched UberGraph to use a single GdkPixmap instead of two. Previously I copied the content back and forth between Pixmaps as I added the new second’s worth of data. That wasted memory in X as well as being unnecessary. Now it uses a single GdkPixmap as a [...]
I recently had the need for a realtime graph and thought it would be a fun hack. I spent some time thinking about a few ways to optimize the drawing to reduce both the client and server side overhead. Having a way to visualize data without a significant effect on system performance is [...]
The python code completion engine in MonoDevelop is now much faster. It’s was a simple fix and one that I think gets overlooked too often in these “dynamic” days.
Thankfully, python makes it easy to index information based on a fully-qualified name. Everything can basically be represented in package format such as “xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree.isinstance”. [...]
I put together a quick walk-through of how to setup the Python add-in for real Python development. You will need a recent check-out of MonoDevelop trunk.
I wrote a python add-in for MonoDevelop last year. Unfortunately, I have a hard time sticking to a single project and therefore it suffered a bit. However, we are getting ready for feature freeze for MonoDevelop 2.2 and so I kicked my ars in gear to fix a few things.
Namely, the code completion [...]
Plenty of desktop applications have extension frameworks so that users may extend functionality for their own purposes. However, many seem to invent their own plug-in system or use a framework tied to the applications source code language. For example, there is pkg_resources for python and Mono.Addins for mono. Both are great tools [...]
Today I finished off a couple more bug fixes for Iris. It now has the Coordination Arbiter which is similar to CCR’s Arbiter.Interleave(). I’m quite happy I ventured down the path of doing GTask based on message passing. It’s already been much easier to find bugs and triage them.
So like the previous [...]
I just uploaded the slides from my talk on GTask. You can get them here.
I took a break from working on my slides today to do a mini hack that had been crossing my mind. I rarely need devhelps full gui, i just want quick access.
Since I ported gnome-do’s relevance to python last september and wrote the async io file walker, it was a breeze.
It’s a bit slow [...]
