Older blog entries for herzi (starting at number 10)

Jeff: take mine from planet.gnome-de.org

Wow, David and I finally got our asses up to start hacking seriously on our little game project for the university. Although today was mostly wasted by getting eclipse installed on shaun (my desktop barebone system) and getting Java 1.4 installed on gromit (Apple Powerbook) which was quite hard until I found Java 1.4 compiled for PPC by IBM (someone should tell them that "pSeries" is not very helpful for non IBM customers).

Refactoring

Today I started to check out why the criawips bug that strider found two days ago. I got at it, hunted it and killed that nasty bug (don't trust one line fixes, they tend to break whole applications).

Later I started to go on clearing my criawips 0.1.0 todo list. My next stop is much refactoring to get the handling of some internal classes more flexible and to reduce the code size by merging two classes. I think this can be done until the weekend (days are for university this week). I'd love to spend the weekend creating my rendering class which is supposed to be used by the SlideEditor (the nice working thing in the main window) and by the SlideShow (the fancy thing that needs to be fixed until LWE in Frankfurt for me to have my GNOME talk there); this one's also supposed to kill huge amounts of duplicated code and to reintroduce a working SlideShow.

GNOME

Found mpd and gmpc today. I think I'll try to get GStreamer support for the daemon and then build up my home audio system from them.

Shopping

A friend called me today and told me that an online shop had very cheap beamers offered (166 EUR instead of 1666 EUR). I just ordered one of them.

KDE

Skipped today's talks at the aKademy. Going to see the recorded streams of the interesting ones.

Shopping...

I went to my dealer today to get the PN15 54MBit Wireless Adapter for my Shuttle SN41G2 system. It was not available (which I expected) so I ordered it and bought the BenQ Mini Buddy (keyboard and mouse) to get a small laptop like keyboard for my desktop machine.

Then I asked for the cost of the parallel port adapter from Shuttle but I thought it was too expensive. So I got the Sitecom USB to Printer Adapter to check whether it works with my machine too.

I was very happy to see it almost working with the CUPS web interface, but it showed "usb://Unknown/" as the printer address although I selected "USB Printer #1". I remembered the gnome-cups-manager and decided to take a look at it. Imagine, gnome-cups-manager did work almost as easy as I could have imagined and I got the Ximian test page printed even more easily than ever. THANK YOU GUYS

Real Life

Seen Shrek 2 yesterday, was really enjoying the movie, especially the covered sound tracks "Lining la vida loca" (by the pussy in boots and the donkey) and "Hero" (from the good fairy).

GNOME & criawips

Well, got a bugzilla account for criawips today. This and the the appreance of criawips in the GNOME i18n status pages are pretty cool, as they show more clearly the affiliation of criawips and GNOME. (One step closer to world domination, yay)

University & work

Somebody tell me please why I still mention these?

Real Life

Had a lot of alcohol yesterday, have been up until 3 AM. Slept until 10 and went shipping. Going to see Shrek 2 tonight.

GNOME & criawips

Not much, except the fact that criawips now uses GNOME CVS. Thanks menthos, you'll get at least one beer for that in Stuttgart.

University & work

Decided to stay at home today, not much jobbing, nothing done for university, hope I'll be more productive tomorrow.

Work & University

Hey, been to work the first time for almost 3 weeks now. Now it's back to JSP and Java coding (I think I will miss the C/C++ Linux development).

Have been happy that I hadn't attended our company's party yesterday, our graphic guys were just doing lots of useless editing of photos just to enjoy us developers and testers.

I still need to to lots hacking for our university project. Hopefully I will find time this weekend (I guess it would be better for me if I didn't hack on criawips too long).

GNOME & Criawips

Didn't have much time today to work on these areas, finally I got registered for the aKademy (KDE conference 2004 nearby Stuttgart) today.

Real Life

Slept very long, missed the C# and .NET intruduction at the university; wento to work, went home, planning to spend a nice evening in the bar of our students dormitory.

GNOME

Have been visiting GUADEC this week and Linuxtag before.

Linuxtag has been a very good experience this year. We got well supported by HP and I met lots of interesting people.

GVADEC was great too. It seems to be a bit more chaotic than last year, and I felt like there were less technical talks than last year, but these facts just pushed me into the hackers room where I could resume my work on Criawips.

Todo: Still need to register a GNOME booth for the LWE this October.

Criawips

Well, had a good hacking week. The application is well progressing and I'm currently working on displaying slides within a main window.

Todo: Need to find someone to buy www.criawips.org and someone to get that page hosted as well as a third one to design a web site and application icon and a fouth one to build up a website. Volunteers?

Real Life

Wow, real life can be so relaxing. When I reached $HOME Thursday around 11:15 PM I watched the rest of the semi finals, prepared some pizza, ate some and went to the Knype (which is the pary room of our students dormitory) to have some beer and chat with non-geeky people.

Just finished relreasing criawips 0.0.2. It's quite usable now. Has three GNOME related talks at GNU/Linux Infotage Wilhelmshaven, there were just a few people visiting this event, but we had a lot of great feedback at the GNOME booth.

2 Mar 2004 (updated 2 Mar 2004 at 06:30 UTC) »

criawips:

Release a first preview version of criawips after a night of hacking. Criawips is now a cute slide viewer that basically supports stretched background images and text in front of it.

Sadly, I haven't been able to create more than my private test file. But as I'm going to use criawips this weekend in Wilhelmshaven for 3 GNOME related talk, there going to be some examples in the next version, ask me directly (per mail) for a sample if you're interested.

GNOME:

Though I met David Malcom on GUADEC last year I just tested conglomerate to write a docbook file and I was really amazed. Really cool piece of software for text editing.

Life:

Had some stress this night (I was only hacking), but I really need the app to get off until the weekend for the GNOME presentations mentioned above. The weekend's promising to become a lot of fun, meeting lots of new Free Software folks, getting closer to Debian people (I still need one Debian dev to sign my gpg key...), presenting GNOME, talking to the KDE guys in front of us, (cool stuff, so much info and still no beer), and -- of course -- beeeeer. I still don't know how to fix up a slide viewer, write 3 presentations AND set up a routing machine for the weekend, but I think I'm going to figure out...

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