I want a pony!
Wow learning for math exams make me do such things. I have been trying to study math today but kept thinking of parsing HTTP headers and how to make GdkWindow really invalidate the content on moves.
WebKit progress
Today and most of the previous night was spent hacking on WebKit. The result is GdkLauncher can load google.com without valgrind complaining. It needed a couple of hours to finally get the relation between FontCache, FontData and FontPlatformData, fixing values that get stuffed into a hash function to make thousands of valgrind errors go away Fixing a couple of other minor uninitialized variables. A fraction of time was spent to make RenderThemeGdk (read this d as t) use native controls….
Pythong Bindings, where is the source
In contrast to some other people posting screenshots of OpenGL applications and not showing the code because it is not clean enough all the code I intend to release is developed publically. Oh and I hate people having this attitude of not showing the code. If this is a proto-type, learning process or whatever it doesn’t really matter how clean the code is, for a prototype the result and gained experience counts and you should be happy to share this….
Creating Python Examples
I have used the boring movies during yesterday and today to create some python examples. Today during the movie on RTL I have created a python example modeling the RSS Reader and other applications.I have slightly improved, polished some parts of the bindings during this process, I have noticed some constructs that are not easily wrappable. A patch for libmokojournal was sent to mickey and I hope to have some time to chat about it. Then there are a couple…
State of the Bindings
So yesterday evening and today afternoon was an unscheduled OpenMoko hacking day. To confirm that I can commit to the repository of the OpenMoko bindings project I checked in the rather old version of the bindings. Then I started to make them compile again, decided to remove cruft from OpenMoko libraries, fixed all warnings to make openmokoui compile with -Wall and -Werror and refactored libmokojournal to make it more easily bindable. I hope mickey will be able to review this…
Call for Participation
Hello fellow hackers, as part of our course at the Software Engineering class at the Freie University of Berlin/Germany we are holding a survey and looking for developers to participate. Our research context is Free and Open Source Software with a focus on (Distributed) Pair Programming[1]. We try to explore how familiar you are with Pair Programming in itself, if you have tried to use Pair Programming in one of your projects, which tools you are familiar with for communication…
Thank you Google
I’m still trying to understand why I ended up with a signed copy of a book from Karl Fogel sent from Mountain View without a letter inside the envelope. Anyway I have started to read this book and with any book I’m trying to extract knowledge and will try to apply it. The obvious target is OpenEmbedded and future projects I might end up starting.So Google it would be nice to understand why I deserve to receive a book or…
VNC and Transformed driver at the same time
In the good old QtE days you were not able to use remote X11 but you can compile VNC into QtEmbedded. This VNC Graphics plugin allowed to be stacked on top of a virtual screen or a real screen driver. In Qt/E the name of the underlying driver was hardcoded. Normally it was either LinuxFB or Transformed but it was definable at compilation time. The two magic environment flags were QWS_SIZE=240×320 and QWS_DISPLAY=VNC:Transformed:Rot270. Yesterday after a small discussion with Robert…
WebKit/Gdk Google Gears
Due the LinuxTag I didn’t do any work on WebKit this week. In the last week I have implemented ScrollBars using GtkLayout. I have found my first WebKit bug/issue which I will hopefully resolve soon. mitzpettel helped me to understand the issue and laid down a possible solution I’m going to implement. To support websites with static background I’m going to need to reimplement parts of GtkLayout. I’m not certain inheritance will work in the worst case I’m going to…
A busy week, LinuxTag review
This week started with a national and I probably was busy studying for my upcoming math exams. Tuesday was just a normal day and the evening was mostly spent communicating and finishing our assignment which consisted out of reviewing questions of a survey. On wednesday the LinuxTag started and Doku and me met Knut and went out to have a dinner. Trolltech shared a booth with KDAB and my old friends from ROAD. Their device looks promising and the chasing…