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, to work; poked at an ORBit2 bug (really the clock applet
setting a NULL string on a gconf key). Of course, gconf has several pre-conditions
to check for & fail in this case, but (sadly) whatever distribution thought
it would be a great ideal to speed up their build with --enable-debug=no (instead
of the more sensible minimal). This turns on G_DISABLE_CHECKS so:
#define g_return_if_fail(expr) G_STMT_START{ (void)0; }G_STMT_END
Unfortunately, that means that people's stack traces are pretty meaningless.
Strange too, I thought Sun proved (in the past) that the best option here was:
#define g_return_if_fail(expr) G_STMT_START{ if (G_UNLIKELY (!(expr))) return; }G_STMT_END
which retained the condition, without the large warning function call / string.
- Poked at mail. Apparently other people also suffer from the dbus API
usability problems, and there is some fragmentation here: Hoger Macht has the
wonderfully named
liblazy to solve the problem; then there is Rob's dbus-glib (which also helps
for the most simple cases, while apparently leaving the harder cases with a
mess of GValues). Fragmentation breeds fragmentation, but perhaps by writing
yet-another binding, of exceeding sweetness, the situation can be improved ?
- Chewed mail, tweaked bugs.
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)
