“Love is an ugly, terrible business, practiced by fools.” — Gabe, from Little Manhattan
“Implement a Gtk# widget that brings the Office-like ribbons to Gtk#. Focus is on managed widgets, not in C-based widgets.” — Miguel de Icaza, Mono Summer of Code ideas (emphasis mine).
Go team.
It’s also pretty sad that they’re pursuing data binding at the Gtk# level, rather than helping deliver it to all users of GTK+. Let’s […]
This is why it’s clear to me that the E in GUADEC still stands for Europe:
While some folks are trying to widen the scope by appealing to the faux fairness of sharing, I think the evidence pins true fairness smack bang in the middle of Europe!
You can trust me on this, because I’m totally unbiased […]
Just delicious. Simply beautiful.
GNOME 2.18 shipped last week, right on schedule, and I’m enjoying the fleeting wonderment of running an even-numbered GNOME release. Not for very long of course, there’s work to do.
“[The covenant not to sue] was one of the business things [Microsoft] wanted out of it, and, in defense of them, it was really probably secondary or tertiary in the discussions and it took a little bit of time for that to come out in those discussions.” — Ron Hovsepian, speaking with eWeek in Novell CEO Has […]
Unfortunately I’m not in Brazil for BOSSA this week due to illness — not even healthy enough to argue with my doctor about it. Missing Brazil again! Gah. I wouldn’t normally announce my non-presence at a conference here, but it looks like I’m still on the agenda, and a few people have pinged me to catch […]
I’ve been very happy with GNOME’s mail services since performing major repairs in July… List administrators have had less spam to moderate, owners of gnome.org mail aliases have received less spam, we’ve had a consistent list turnaround time of between 3 and 5 seconds, and it has required significantly less day-to-day attention. Very satisfying.
However, there […]
Clare blogged about Ubuntu wine, and wondered if other FLOSS products had their own drop… How about the linux.conf.au 2003 Holy Penguin Pee?
Apparently, it really does taste like penguin pee (and not of the blessed variety), so I’m keeping this one in the cellar as a collector’s item only.
Holy Penguin Peeby jdubflickr
“So, waiting for Project Ridley to come to the rescue is not going to cut it anymore: if you are proposing to move some functionality from a library to GLib or GTK+ be prepared to work on the whole code and not only on your pet feature.” — Emmanuele Bassi, Of Angels and Angles on improving the […]
Attracting commerce-minded devs to an open source business
“If anyone says that you can’t make money doing open-source type work, they’re just wrong.” — The Don, New Zealand and Catalyst IT’s Don Christie telling it like it is, at the Waugh Partners Open Source Industry Breakfast event
(tags: donchristie catalyst newzealand opensource business)
