Monthly Archives: February 2009

Big Trouble

Looks like the new big turbo kit from APR is out for my Audi. This will be very tough to ignore. I still miss the break-neck torque of a 400bhp GTI.
http://goapr.com/Audi/products/stage3_long20t.html
I’ve been a little burnt out recently from all the hacking on Adroit, Marina, and GTask. I hope to do some bug [...]

GTask Slides

I just uploaded the slides from my talk on GTask. You can get them here.

GTask API Changes

I’ve made some API changes to the GTask delegates that should make using GTask much less painful. I must have been smoking some seriously good ‘ish when I thought it was a good idea to return GValue* from any sort of delegate. That would have required negotiating allocation methods when an allocation shouldn’t be necessary [...]

Tuesday Mini Hack

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 [...]

Marina

When I read that the Liferea hackers were considering doing a rewrite, I jumped at the opportunity to throw together a prototype. I had been dabbling with this in python for the last year or so anyway, solving interesting problems with storing lots of data while keeping memory usage light.
I also wanted a project [...]

GNOME and GTask @ Scale 7x

The Southern California Linux Expo is quickly approaching. It kicks off on Friday and lasts through Sunday. I’ll be hosting the GNOME booth along with my homey Jeff Schroeder.
Saturday, at 1:30 PM, I’ll be giving a talk on using the asynchronous toolkit I’ve written for GObject. Those that enjoy twisted’s deferreds will feel right [...]