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, an American breakfast, packed, and
off to the Caltrain. Fixed some encoding issues in the new
UI xml code ...
- Struggled around SFO trying to find an open
internet cafe with a working connection; apparently today
is a national holiday. Finaly found a "DSL internet cafe"
only to find it had a horrendous, evil custom interface,
and wouldn't co-operate whatsoever with DHCP / trying to
see what was behind the thing. Got bored, and went to the
Airport.
- Having had several first hand experiences with
'American' I decided to get on standby for a much, much
earlier flight. Got to LA with 5 hours before the next
flight. LA looks typicaly uninteresting, and smoggy.
- Sat about mangling GType beyond recognisation.
Problem is - since a GType is an guint32 we have to do
loads of tedious locking before operating on the type -
locking ~= 40% of the profile.
- Easy to solve - make GType a gpointer, then
we can propagate the invariants we are passed; such as
an Object isn't freed while it's passed to you [ and hence
it's type data isn't ], and we can just walk the tree with
impunity totaly without locking most times. So far it's
looking almost binary compat for 32bit machines.
- Hmm - more breakage, bits flying everywhere -
lots of tedious typing, and then - screwed by the 'hyper'
efficiency with G_SIGNAL_TYPE_STATIC_SCOPE. Got tired of
it all and played gnibbles instead - only a few more hours
before the flight now.
- Slept on the flight for 6 hours or so; excellent.
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)
