21 Jul 2001 bratsche   » (Master)

Gnome 2.0 book?
    I found on pricescan.com, a book called Gnome 2.0 Application Development, published by Sams in October 2000. wtf? Sams generally publishes pretty shitty books for actual existing platforms, so I can only imagine how terrible this book must be if it discusses a platform that is just now beginning real development.
PHP
    I started learning a little PHP, but it won't be for a couple weeks that I will have enough time to really go after this.
Library work
    For some reason, I put myself down for 20 hours of work for the symphony library for this weekend. wtf was I thinking? I have a test on Monday, a large amount of homework due on Tuesday, and two tests on Thursday.
New text item for canvas
    I'm hacking on Joe's GnomeCanvasRichText item. It seems good, and so I'm dropping all my work on GnomeCanvasEditableLabel that I did in favor of Joe's. It uses Havoc's GtkTextLayout, which is the main reason it's better than mine.
Sun's Gnome UI report
    I haven't finished reading it all yet, but a group of user interface people at Sun published a document about the state of Gnome's usability and a style guide. I haven't gotten to the style guide, but so far this document is already great.
Practice
    Practice hasn't been so good this week, and I don't think it'll be good until after next week. Perhaps not even until classes are finished. I've been practicing Bach, but I think now that I need to switch to Schwanendreher for my Peabody orchestra audition. The Bach is just not going to pull together in time. It was doing really well for several weeks, but then I just had some downtime and didn't progress very well for a couple weeks, and it's really affecting the Bach a lot. I also need to really work on my excerpts.

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