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Work on libgdata is progressing nicely, and I’ve started on porting evolution-data-server to the shiny new calendar and contacts services provided by libgdata. One idea I recently had was to use the G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro (gcc’s ... [More] warn_unused_result attribute) on functions which return allocated data, to warn users of the library if they’re not using the data, [...] [Less]

It’s about time to announce something I’ve been working on for about three months now: libgdata. It’s a GLib-, libsoup- and libxml2-based library for accessing GData APIs, as used by most Google services. There already exist several such libraries in a variety of languages, but as far as I’m aware this is the first one [...]

In time for GNOME 2.26, the Totem help manual has been given a much-needed revamp. It’s now completely up-to-date, and the first manual to reach “final” status with the new documentation status tracking features. I must apologise to all the translators whose work I trampled on by repeatedly changing things just after they updated the [...]

Totem now has API documentation for the API it exposes to plugins. The documentation has actually been in the source code a while, but we couldn’t build pretty reference pages from it. Last night, I separated most of Totem out into a noinst library, which we now use with gtk-doc to build pretty documentation. When [...]

Dragging its feet behind version 0.5.0 comes version 0.6.0 of Almanah. This release is primarily to improve upon the “link” concept which was present in all previous versions. Now, links have been replaced with the concept of a “definition”: terms can be defined across multiple entries, to allow you to go into more detail about [...]

With a new year comes a newly finished model. This time, it’s a Chinook HC1 helicopter which I’ve been working on for just over six months. It’s turned out quite well, and the pictures are up on Picasa. The only problem now is finding somewhere to house it which won’t let it get disgustingly dusty. Happy [...]

To fix problems with parsing playlists from slow servers in Totem, it’s necessary to add asynchronous parsing functions to totem-pl-parser, so that parsing can be run in a thread. I’ve stuck a preliminary patch in bug #561444, but before it goes any further it would be great if other users of totem-pl-parser would take a [...]

When I went for interview at Imperial College, my interviewer (Dr. P. Kelly) asked me quite a nice question, which (for some unearthly reason) I decided to follow up on afterwards. The question was a simple one: given a string (e.g.) “examplesgnome” consisting of two substrings (in this case, “examples” and “gnome”), how can we swap [...]

It seems to be release week for me. Here’s Almanah Diary 0.5.0. Of note with this release is the support for text formatting (bold, italic and underline — nothing particularly fancy), persistent window dimensions, the ability to set the encryption ... [More] key, and better recovery from database corruption/errors (although it’s still not perfect). Packagers should note that [...] [Less]

I went with a friend to see Motörhead in Leicester last night, and it was an awesome gig. Danko Jones and Saxon were supporting, and while I’ll give Danko Jones a miss in future, Saxon were great, even if their intro was sickeningly patriotic. Motörhead themselves were absolutely amazing, playing a variety of stuff: new, old [...]