“Love is an ugly, terrible business, practiced by fools.” — Gabe, from Little Manhattan
Monthly Archives: March 2007
QoTD: Miguel de Icaza
March 27, 2007 – 08:11
“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 […]
E is for Europe
March 23, 2007 – 22:34
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 […]
GNOME 2.18: Simplemente Hermoso
March 22, 2007 – 18:54
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.
QoTD: Ron Hovsepian
March 22, 2007 – 18:51
“[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 […]
GNOME mail services feedback wanted
March 12, 2007 – 19:34
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 […]
Holy Penguin Pee
March 10, 2007 – 20:56
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
links for 2007-03-03
March 4, 2007 – 05:21
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)
