Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
Novell which is an amazing company, and also
Dell who in days of yore provided me with a
free laptop for Gnome development / conferences.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
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- Up early; limboed in the shower for a while, very
luxurious. Rang Miguel to wake him, read some more mail.
Breakfast with Miguel, most pleasant, good to see him on good
form.
- Off to the offices, late for the meeting. Luckily
Ralf had been delayed at a suprise meeting himself so it worked
well.
- The leader ( another Torsten ) of the StarPortal
team gave us a Demo; having been led to expect a nightmare of
DHTML I was extremely impressed indeed to see all the
StarOffice apps run well inside the browser. Played with
StarWriter a tad, not a canned demo, working and responsive
code. Very impressed. Better still the architectural details
were seemingly very, very well designed. Began to see why
Markus' was concerned about IIOP's packet size and efficiency
issues.
- Meeting, meeting, meeting. Lots of namespace
discussion, naming conventions, stDlYCaPSNess, nodeFree,
org_gnome_somewherelse_bonobo_morespecifics_Unknown ( to
save typing ) or not. Talked with Paul about gnome-print
and the evils of XPrint and the serious coolness of
gnome-print.
- Miguel made up a load of action items, and sent
me a nice TODO for Bonobo; so I can get my teeth into
something.
- Miguel left for some expo or other. Sat around and
chatted to Ralf, Paul and Calum. [ inevitably mis-spelt (
pronounced Column ) ]. Interesting chaps really. It must be
nice for Ralf seeing his concept of the client / server
desktop come to working fruition after so many years, and so
many tries [ notably unlike Corel Office ]. Got to know
them all better, much fun, really hospitable and friendly
guys.
- Caught the plane to Heathrow with Paul and Calum,
talked to Paul a lot about various things, toured the innards
of gnome-print for him. Discovered the juicy bug in the UI
handler that I had been worrying about; excellent turns out
to be a couple of FIXME that I had forgotten to put in.
- Sat on the train; marveling at the number of items
in Nautilus' menus, wow. Managed to get runaway thread creation
and seemingly a deadlock, hmm. Luckily I'm only trying to fix
the UI issues.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Novell, The
Lithuanian Gov't or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's also important to
realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences,
bio.
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)
