We’re looking for operating system developers near the Red Hat office in Brno, Czech, including some to be part of the desktop development team. If you’re interested, send an introduction and resume to Jay Turner (jkt redhat com). You must live in Czech for these jobs, please don’t apply otherwise. (This post was originally found […]
Luis linked to this Joel article which says: No matter how debunked Whorf is, I’m still convinced that Israelis are more likely to do things דווקא, simply because they have a word for it. Lots of people say Whorf was debunked because they read The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker. A professor of mine in […]
Christian, use APNG. MNG is seriously flawed. (We tried to do GdkPixbuf support for it back in the day.) (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2005–01.html#7.2)
Elijah keeps Metacity respectable. Christian, you may beat us on bug numbers, but can you completely obliterate an entire class of bugs in true Elijah style? (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2004–12.html#20)
There’s a bunch of really good stuff in Red Hat Magazine that should have gotten more attention. It really is good stuff, I’m not just saying that. 😉 The things I thought were most interesting from a desktop developer point of view: How to use GnomeMeeting Seth on design process and principles Interview with Bob […]
The Register has its issues, but I did appreciate the title of this article. At least with Yahoo! you can sort of see how the name makes sense; unlike this competitor for a “worst product name ever” award. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2004–12.html#12)
In case you had any doubts about how much David Zeuthen rocks, check this out, standing on the shoulders of Owen and Ziga Mahkovec. As I think Owen intended, this shows how important profiling before optimizing really is. Now we understand the issues and a 40-second boot (including GNOME login) is a simple matter of […]
Amusing myself with profilers the last few days, with moderate success. This was probably a waste of time; I don’t think IPC is likely to be a bottleneck or performance issue for the desktop as a whole. (Despite the occasional Slashdot kid speculating that stuff is slow “because of CORBA” or “because of X” as […]
I should have mentioned in my last post, Planet Classpath is well worth checking out; for example right now it has Tom on Monotone, IKVM status update, Swing on GTK+ screenshots. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2004–11.html#28.2)
Gotta reply to the questions I guess 😉 Or at least some of them. Why Red Hat is not making any Java-GNOME application? We’ve been reluctant to start competing with Novell to see who can write the most code in their favorite language, eventually leading to two different desktop codebases. Instead there are quiet efforts […]