After months of work I finally finished my university thesis on dynamic path conditions in dependence graphs. I still have to give a talk about it but the date is yet unknown. I expect it to be sometime in late November / December. It's also great that the chair where I wrote the thesis want to hand it in for the upcoming PEPM 06 conference in South Carolina in January. I was invited to contribute to the paper as well and hope my contributions will be useful. Thanks and good luck with PEPM 06, guys! The call for papers ends in a few hours.

GNOME 2.12 and VLOS - A Dream Team!

After finishing my thesis, i thought it would be a good time to upgrade my old Fedora Core 3 box. It's now running a nice VLOS with a fresh GNOME 2.12 on it. Within almost one week of desktop uptime, nautilus did not even crash once on me. GNOME 2.12 is a great and stable release. Things just work! Congrats to all GNOME hackers! :D

Now I'd love to go on holidays, but work calls, and it's calling loudly. So I have to postpone holidays until I can afford them.

gDesklets and my Book

It's also time to resume work on gDesklets again. Before the 0.36 release, I want to make some 0.35.x releases with code and performance improvements.

If you speak German, there will be a printed book covering desklet development available in November. I have contributed a gDesklets chapter to Exploring Python, a new Python book for advanced programmers. My first book contribution! Please be so nice and buy it, if you can read German. Thanks! :)