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Pogo Stick
apparently, some people — and I’m looking at you, Pippin — said that the Tweet repository is hard to find: you actually have to search in my blog.
well, not anymore: Tweet on GNOME Live
complete with a screenshot of the new UI, as suggested by Matthew Allum:
Still Alive
non è che siccome non scrivo nulla di qua io non abbia cose da fare, o non abbia fatto cose.
nel mondo reale sono piuttosto impegnato con Clutter 0.8; è un vero peccato non poter mostrare quello che stiamo facendo — anche se, quando sarà il momento, spargeremo la voce.
nel frattempo, si è prenotato [...]
Road to Somewhere
well, after eating my dog food for a while, it seems that Tweet is starting to get more useful.
first of all, now Tweet has an authentication dialog which allows you to enter your username and password the first time you run it:
and even verify them beforehand:
then you get the list of statuses from the people [...]
Some Things Come From Nothing
json-glib: 0.6 is out! please: download it, test it, use it. as far as I know, it has been packaged for Debian unstable, and has entered the NEW queue (kudos to Rob Bradford, esquire and fine gentleman).
debian: with the release of Hardy I decided to switch back to Debian after three years of Ubuntu. even [...]
Sincerest Forms of Flattery
tidy: they say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery:
the actual amount of code is quite small, and it’s already available in Tidy.
challenges: Luca dared me into making a Clutter-based coverflow-like plugin for Rhythmbox, but it was Iain that picked the challenge up and wrote some basic code for it. I, on the other [...]
Good Intentions/2
gtk : I’ve been working again on the RecentManager and in trunk you’ll see some new stuff, namely:
use GIO to determine the MIME type of a URI, on every platform supported
use the file monitoring API to avoid polling the storage
Clutter at OSCON
Tomas got his ‘Clutter: Breathing Life into User Interfaces‘ talk accepted for this years O’Reilly OSCON Open Source convention.
See you there in July ?
Good Intentions
unique: this morning I released version 0.9.4 of libunique, everyone (least) favourite library for writing single instance applications. it’s mostly a bug fixing release, and since I’ve decided to release 1.0.0 soon, this is also the first
Clutter WebKit = ClubKit?
A lot has changed since WebKit was last mentioned. The way it was being done a month ago was the GTK backend was used to create a widget that was then being redirected into a Clutter texture. This was such an ugly hack and the limitations of it were reached pretty quickly. Limitations such as [...]
Rhyme the rhyme well
Jason, it’s not just the canvas: writing a simple 2D canvas is trivial — that’s why a lot of applications end up writing their own homegrown one.
The hard bits are the animation framework, the event handling and down to the integration with the existing platform. A generic canvas is hard, and you probably don’t want [...]