Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up early; mail, bit of code hackery - good, cleaned up some horrible snafus in my yet-another-thread-pool-impl. Lunch. Sync with Tor & Kohei, caught up with Kendy; customer/partner call. Chat with Thorsten, and massaged text.
Sophie finally up-loaded all the great content from the conference to the LibreOffice Youtube Channel. My Keynote from the LibreOffice conference: Money fairies, Consultancy & Product - or - LibreOffice from Collabora.
Interested to watch Igor Zaika's talk on the Microsoft Office cross-platform architecture which seems to make a lot more sense these days.

2014-10-30: Thursday

Mail chew; misc. calls, reviewed code tried to get to some hacking, more mail; sync. call with Philippe; built ESC agenda (rather late), ESC call.
Really pleased to see CloudOn's Awesome iOS App released incorporating LibreOffice, and a ton of work that has been done by the community, Collabora, Igalia, Synezip and others. Nice to see the Old vs. New screenshots too.

2014-10-29: Wednesday

Up; call with Tor, quick mail skim. Out to see Auntie Nicky, Joy & family at a nearby farm shop - had a lovely time with them. Home, E-mail, analytics, partner call, more E-mail. Set off to drive for home; worked in the car.

2014-10-28: Tuesday

Up lateish; walked up into the town, played in the Castle gardens. Home for lunch; bit of work; sprayed the beams in the loft with woodworm killer so Father can insulate his garage. Watched James Herriot movies with the babes.
Out into town for a pint & a nice meal with J. lovely to spend some time together.

2014-10-27: Monday

Up early; moved lathe bits around on skate-board; out for a walk along a beautiful river, with several rope swings for babes out over the water. Back for lunch; mail chew.
Worked at mail, built a consulting agenda; product team meeting, consulting team meeting; sync. with Markus & lfrb, sync. with Matus, and Nemeth. Lots of good work going on.

2014-10-26: Sunday

Up earlyish; off to St Andrews, Starbeck for a fine service. Back for a large roast lunch, out swimming at Sandra's & moved a rather heavy lathe bed with Father; drilled some holes in a bee-hive for weighing it. Home for tea, put babes to bed.

2014-10-25: Saturday

Out in the morning to collect some bee-keeping equipment with Father for Christmas presents; back for lunch. Out for a walk nearby, climbed out onto some trees that had washed down the river and grounded with the babes. Watched an old film about Scott of the Antarctic in the evening.

2014-10-24: Friday

Up late; mail chew; worked on a proposal; then on a report. Encouraged to see the XFastSerializer work Matus did on master taking XLSX export time ~30% faster, nice - should make it quicker to run the profiling tests too.

2014-10-23: Thursday

Mail chew; call with Michal, then Tim; lunch. Poked at some code too briefly; back to SOW drafting.

2014-10-22: Wednesday

Intensive E-mail chew; built ESC stats & agenda; lunch. Partner call, sync. with Kendy. Out into Soham for a parents' evening with the family.

2014-10-21: Tuesday

Up early; partner call, mail chew - thrashed through the backlog of tasks, chat with Tor, contract review; mail.
Out to help with Cub Scouts in the evening; Miriam is one, somewhat surreal inactivity & computer discussion - meeting the formal parent/child ratios I suppose.

2014-10-20: Monday

Slept; somewhere here missed most of a day and several team meetings; chewed through E-mail and a big back-log of off-line work. Partner call on the way home; finally back to put lovely daughers to bed.
J. running a PCC training session; call with parents & David; sleep.

2014-10-19: Sunday

Breakfast, listened to a great sermon on Haggai; Arthur kindly picked me up; visited his family & home, and out for a fine improvisational pasta lunch with Gabriella. On to a Dinosaur park & wax-work museum, then off to the falls together; a lovely day out.
Flight to Sao Paolo diverted due to lack of fuel to stay in a holding pattern; thankfully re-fuelled and managed to make my onward flight (also rather delayed).

2014-10-18: Saturday

Up earlyish; the older I get, the worse I handle jet-lag, even an ~insignificant 4hrs & having slept on the plane: hmm. Breakfast, mail chew. Out for a quick coach tour of the Itaipu Dam - a really incredible feat of construction. Its hard to get a feel for a ~200m tall Dam until you see it. Amazing that the concrete was mixed with flake ice not water; an extraordinary piece of engineering.
Back to the Hotel, out for another pleasant meat experience. Mail chew, call with Markus; poked at VCL timers / idle handlers.

2014-10-17: Friday

Early to rise; quick call, mail, breakfast; continued on slideware - really thrilled to use droidAtScreen to demo the LibreOffice on Android viewer.
Off to the venue in the coach; prepped slides some more, gave a talk - rather a hard act to follow at the end of the previous talk: a (male) strip-tease, mercifully aborted before it went too far. Presented my slides, informed by a few recent local discussions:
Quick lunch, caught up with mail, customer call, poked Neil & Daniel, continued catching up with the mail & interaction backlog.
Conference ended - overall an extremely friendly & positive experience, in a lovely location - most impressed by my first trip to Brazil; cudos to the organizers; and really great to spend some time with Eliane & Olivier on their home turf.
Out for dinner & drinks in the evening; finally managed to internalize the canonical Brazilian rendition of LibreOffice: Lee-Br-Off-See.

2014-10-16: Thursday

To the venue, crazy handing out of collateral, various talks with people; Advisory Board call, LibreOffice anniversary Cake cutting and eating (by massed hordes).
It is extraordinary, and encouraging to see how many young ladies are at the conference, and (hopefully) getting engaged with Free Software: never seen so many at other conferences. As an unfortunate down-side: was amused to fobb off an un-solicited offer of marriage from a 15yr old: hmm.
Chewed some mail, bus back in the evening; worked on slides until late, for talk tomorrow.

2014-10-15: Wednesday

Up early; mail chew, interesting breakfast with the Krita guy. Freshened up, met up with Eliane & Olivier, coach to the dam; got the booth setup; partner call. Lunch with Olivier; booth duty. Enjoyed the opening talks; back to the booth to re-charge. Out in the evening for dinner, kindly driven by Artur.

2014-10-14: Tuesday

Chewed some mail, great things going on while I'm asleep: seemingly I should sleep / wander off more often. Hacked a little on my backlog of things that need work.
Flight to FOZ, Brazil appears to be a lovely place; hacked on the flight, taxi to the hotel, hacked in the hotel at length - fun. Mail chew too; call with partner . Poked at tiled rendering foo until late; sleep.

2014-10-13: Monday

Mail chew; call with Kendy, Laszlo, Tor; mail. Lunch with J. team call; more mail chewage, sync. with Matus & Andras. Hurried packing and dropped by J. for some train/plane/etc. to Brazil / LatinoWare.
Arrived rather early at LHR; had an interesting chat to a young movie maker off to Jordan; enjoyed rather a good sleep on a lengthy TAM flight to San Paolo.

2014-10-12: Sunday

Off to NCC, extremely tired; Tony spoke. Back for a roast lunch; applied slugging, put up some lights & a clock in H's room, fixed M's cupboard. Dinner, showed Babes some Ball Brothers, put babes to bed. Sermon; sleep early.

2014-10-11: Saturday

Lie-in, large breakfast: porridge & boiled egg; off to Brandon for a wander through the forest, and play in the playground. Home for a fine pizza lunch. Dropped E. off at a sleep-over.
Plugged away at E-mail, and worked late on a profiling problem.

2014-10-10: Friday

Mail; admin, booked hack-fest flights for Toulouse and Munich.
Dead pleased with CloudOn's Teaser Video of their LibreOffice based product for iOS - coming exciting.

2014-10-09: Thursday

Plugged at mail, partner call, more mail. Lunch, mgmt team call, wrote a LXF column on open source civility. ESC call, merged some patches & back-ported some others.

2014-10-08: Wednesday

Up early, sleeping poorly; read mail, caught up with J. read profiles & build a report. Shuffled the sales pipeline, there's always room for another entry if you need something awesome doing on LibreOffice.
Partner / project call. Dinner with the babes, up late shuffling E-mail - no sight of any code, sadly; sales work variously. Somehow really encouraged to see the prototype LibreOffice 4.4 feature page a month before feature freeze. Worked dead late.

2014-10-07: Tuesday

Mail chew, wrote status report, out to buy a replacement MCB; admin; built ESC stats.
I forgot to blog about my small tilebench helper that can be used to benchmark LibreOfficeKit tiled rendering. It builds by default on Linux, and should show up in instdir/program If you run: cd instdir/program ; ./tilebench `pwd` /path/to/test/doc.odt then it should produce some nice output a bit like this:
```
profile run:
  initialization - 263.4392(ms)
  load document - 1097.3644(ms)
  getparts - 0.0222(ms)
  get size of parts - 0.0784(ms)
  render whole document - 74.4882(ms)
  render sub-region at 1:1 - 175.5018(ms)
  render sub-regions at scale - 388.7520(ms)
  destroy document - 178.5827(ms)
Total: 2.1782(s)
```
Which gives some timings for rendering a dozen tiles of pieces of your document at different sizes. This of course exercises the headless backend, which has quite some scope for performance work. At least it's rather easy to use cachegrind to profile the run-time there, and you find some interesting things.
Lunch, replaced the MCB - even got back on-line afterwards; always encouraging.

2014-10-06: Monday

Broken, feverish sleep; up; feverish E-mail activity. Sync. with Kendy, team meeting, skipped lunch, chat with Kohei, another team meeting. Friendly chat, partner call, dinner, worked late.

2014-10-05: Sunday

NCC, ran the older kids bible-study; re-capped John 1:1-18 and had fun; home for a big lunch. Played Othello with the babes, started to feel somewhat unwell, bed - v. groggy.

2014-10-04: Saturday

Worked on a proposal, slugged at home for much of the day. Managed to blow most of the sockets in the kitchen - MCB seems to be broken; or was it plugging in my laptop PSU ? hmm.

2014-10-03: Friday

Mail chew, read commits on master (always encoruaging), misc. E-mail. Into Cambridge, another box arrived, got the cluster setup to a degree, made a mess of the server room with non-rack-mount hardware, got several windows' installed & an openSUSE 13.2 (accidentally).
Encouraging catch-up with Matus; home early, put babes to bed, call in the evening with Thorsten.

2014-10-02: Thursday

Chewed mail slowly. Looked for a replacement battery for this iBUYPOWER CZ-28, thank God for dmidecode - Chassis is really a MicroStar Int'l MS-176K, leading to BTY-M6D; turns out it's easier to un-plug the battery and read the serial number from it though.
Churned through mail & project updates. Lunch. Catch-up with Philippe, ESC call, partner call. Arun around for bible study.

2014-10-01: Wednesday

Mail chew, call with Laszlo, train into Cambridge, got started on some hardware setup in the office; installing Windows is always a depressingly poor experience. TDF board call. Always deeply encouraged by the compound failure of Windows - installed the latest video drivers, and an un-bootable, hard-locked system; nice. Waited late into the night in the office, home by train.
Worked even later on tiled rendering performance / tests; amazingly it seems we're rendering invisible progress bars on document load, and rulers that don't show up in tiles and; bed.

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