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18 Dec 2002 »

Hacking

I finally released MlView 0.0.3rc2. Still a couple of bugs to be fixed before 0.0.3 .

Hacking on the standalone css2 parser is also on going. It's still not useable at all but the different pieces of the puzzle are getting in place.

Life

Had a nice week end. Joel came to my place and we went in a nice restaurant with other good friends. It was great. We went for a drive in Paris by night, nice. I like this town, really.

This great week end may explain why my hacks went so slowly.

3 Dec 2002 (updated 3 Dec 2002 at 14:15 UTC) »

MlView hacking

Applied some patches and fixed some minor bugs. Seems like a new release candidate (0.0.3rc2) is coming soon.

Life

Yesterday night, I was too tired to do anything but the few hacks on mlview core. My day job is almost sucking all my time and energy <grin/>.

1 Dec 2002 »

hacking

Have been hacking on the core of my new css2 parsing library. I really wonder if I can get something useable out of it. It would be very cool if MlView could have a descent support of css one day.

In the same time I have not hacked a lot on MlView itself.

life

I am 26 now. I am still in relatively good health. I just want to thank mother nature.

16 Nov 2002 »

MlView hacking

Bug fixes again and again. I wonder when this piece of software become as stable as I want. Anyway, what I want is to let the current gnome-1.xx version of MlView in a descent stability state before starting the gnome2 port.

I must also find the time to work on my new css parsing library.

5 Nov 2002 (updated 17 Nov 2002 at 13:49 UTC) »

MlView

Some other fixes. 0.0.3rc2 is coming soon.

4 Nov 2002 (updated 4 Nov 2002 at 22:30 UTC) »

MlView hacking

I finally released mlview 0.0.3rc1. It fixes a lot of stability problems.

Users of this version must also upgrade to libxml 2.2.26 .

I still have to deliver some other small fixes before 0.0.3. After this, I must kick my ass to start the gnome2 port.

29 Oct 2002 (updated 30 Oct 2002 at 00:08 UTC) »

My first debian install

For the first time in my life, I've installed a debian this night. It's a 3.0. I've installed it on my old vaio PCG-F190 laptop. Everything went smoothly. I even got X and the network work almost out of the box. Okay, I still have to get used to the well known apt-xxx and dpkg stuffs but i already love the baby.

I've been playing with GNU/Linux for 6 years now but I've only installed slack, RH and Mdk... now Debian. Which one will I like most ?

Hacking

I've fixed numerous stability bugs in MlView the past week. Many thanks go to the power of the valgrind tool and to DV. I will make a new release in the coming days.

After this release I must force myself to download the sources of gnome2 on my brand new debian system, compile it, admire it and start the porting of (damn even apm works!!) MlView to gnome2. That will take a lot of work since I have to totally rewrite (at least) the MlViewTreeEditor and MlViewNodeEditor widgets which are heavily based on the GTKCTree and GTKCList widgets ... Okay, these widgets are MVC pattern compliant but I have to rewrite the models and the controllers still.

6 Oct 2002 »

MlView Hacking

Went forward in the support of iso latin1 edition. It works somehow. I think I should release it ...

I am now working on the foundations of the css support in MlView. I therefore have started to write a standalone C implementation of the Simple Api for CSS. I am expecting some great hacks on that front.

This CSS stuffs are certainly going to lower the release frequency of MlView...

Life

I went to the last "first jeudi" of Paris. It is a friendly monthly meeting of more than one hundred Free Software users and programers who live in Paris. It was great. I met a lot of cool guys there. Going to work the day after was much less cool.

20 Sep 2002 (updated 20 Sep 2002 at 19:40 UTC) »

Hmmh, It seems like the people who certified MichaelCrawford as journeyer when he was known as goingware are quicker to certify him than those who certified him as master .... We still have to wait a bit for the system to reach its stable state but if the number of such phenomenon (persons changing their alias) increases, that would be a great test of the reliability of the advogato trust system.

MlView Hacking Still busy with the external encoding issues. It's Not that it is very complicated but I want to handle this aspect gently.

Work Hummh, the atmosphere is getting worse and worse at work. Our managers now want to send the activities of my team offshore. Hmmh, bad weather expected ...

14 Sep 2002 (updated 16 Sep 2002 at 16:19 UTC) »

MlView Hacking. I am still busy with the isolatin1 edition support in MlView. There are many many small portions of code to modify and that can lead to many bugs if I don't care.

Question. I definitely hate working in a place were the management doesn't understand that people who write software should 1) maintain it 2)document it so that further maintenance can be made at least possible. Instead, the management only insist on the code production part which is actually the smallest part of the software lifecyle. The greater part of a software lifecycle actually being the maintenance and the evolution. But they totally ignore the good practises that will ease code maintenance and evolution in the future.

They went to an extend where they created some division where people do *only* maintenance.

Readers should keep in mind that there is *zero* code documentation ... so an incredible amount of energy is spend to fix the bugs ...

I do think that one day, the company will just collapse because of their being incapable to roll out new products beacause all the energy is spent on maintaining unmaintainable products. That is very bad.

And as time goes, things are getting worse and worse.

Does anyone share the same experience as me ? Does anyone know how to get out of this spiral ?

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