Federico Mena-Quintero

Email: federico@gnome.org (GPG public key)

Conferences

Bio/photo for conferences (English)
Bio/foto para conferencias (español)

Documents

Homesteading

• Capturing rainwater (español: Captura de agua de lluvia)
• Ferrocement: a brief, incomplete, and simple introduction (español: Ferrocemento: una introducción breve, incompleta y sencilla)
• Lo importante son las ciudades — la teoría económica de Jane Jacobs

Christopher Alexander's ideas and its derivations

• Material about Christopher Alexander
• Material de Christopher Alexander (español)

Urbanism

• El cruce de la muerte en la salida de la UV

Software

• Software that has the Quality Without a Name
• Summer of Code Mentoring HOWTO (Mar/2008)
• World Domination as an Optimization Hack (Report from the GNOME Deployments, July 2006)
• Integrating Existing Software with GNOME: Guide for Independent Software Vendors (Sep/2006)
  • GNOME ISV Guide, HTML version
  • Wiki page for the guide's outline
• GNOME Programming Guidelines
• Using jhbuild on Novell Linux Desktop (2005/Jun/16)
• GNOME 1.0 Musings (Nov/1998 - for sentimental value)
• Articles on Git, a distributed version control system
  • Pushing and pulling with Git, part 1 (Nov/2008)
  • Pushing and pulling with Git, part 2 (Dec/2008)
  • Rpm2git — an easy way to publish distro patches (Jul/2008)
  • rpm2git screencast (Aug/2008)
  • How to use rpm2git (Aug/2008)
  • Why I want to have the children of git rebase --interactive (Aug/2008)
  • Git for GNOME developers (Sep/2007)
• Performance articles
  • Making GNOME Fast, presentation at the GNOME Summit, Boston 2005 (Oct/2005)
  • Profiling desktop applications, presentation at FOSDEM 2007 (Feb/2007).
  • Locating poll() wakeups (Sep/2006)
  • Limiting your repaint rate (Apr/2006)
  • Footprint of non-shared dirty data from libraries (Apr/2006)
  • Improving our memory debugging infrastructure (Apr/2006)
  • Interpreting Sysprof results: Gedit's "replace all" (Oct/2005)
  • Profiling with Sysprof
  • Smaller footprint for images in Firefox, part 1 (Sep/2007)
  • Smaller footprint for images in Firefox, part 2 (Sep/2007)
  • Proposal to reduce the memory consumption of images in Mozilla (Nov/2005)

  • Compacting the GTK+ icon cache (May/2007)

    1. Introduction
    2. Where do icons live in the cache?

  • Improving login time

    1. Nautilus startup
    2. Nautilus, gnome-vfs-daemon, and bonobo-activation-server
    3. The desktop's menu bar?
    4. Gnome-session's clients
    5. A more detailed timeline for Nautilus
    6. No history for the Nautilus desktop
    7. Gnome-panel startup
    8. What does the panel do before launching its applets?

  • Nautilus (Nov/2006)

    1. SMB slowness and is_local() roundtrips

  • Pango (Oct/2005)

    1. Pango glyph lookups
    2. Pango gunichar->script and paired character mappings
    3. Quantifying the behavior of the glyph cache
    4. A global benchmark for Pango
    5. Different sizes for the gunichar -> glyph_index cache
    6. Optimizing CJK text rendering

  • GtkFileChooser (Sep/Oct/2005)

    1. Initial measurements
    2. Superfluous widgets in OPEN mode
    3. Fixing OPEN mode
    4. Don't load folders unnecessarily
    5. Inside GtkTreeView

Recipes

See also the GNOME Cookbook Project!

• Tomato salad with garlic and cumin
• Fish in cilantro chutney
• Ratatouille
• Red salsa and enfrijoladas
• Baked fish with basil
• Broiled eggplant parcels
• Tian de courgettes et tomates

Miscellaneous

• Cómo configurar un ruteador Linksys y un modem 2Wire de Telmex Infinitum (Ago/2009)
• Unofficial Yamaha S80 Manual (Jul/2002)

About me

I work writing free software for SUSE, mainly on the infrastructure for the GNOME Project, which I co-founded.

I live in Mexico with my lovely wife Oralia Silva-Rueda. She took this nice picture of me near the bathrooms of the Tate Modern gallery in London back in 2003.

Here's a little biography of myself, in Spanish, which I wrote in 2003 for the Congreso Nacional de Software Libre in Talca, Chile.

If you are looking for a short bio that you can put in conference materials, or if you want to invite me to speat at a conference, look here.

GPG Public Key

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