So over the past few hours, I managed to put together a new Galago release. There was a lot done in this release, and I wouldn’t be surprised if I broke stuff, but at least now it should work with both D-BUS 0.23.x and D-BUS 0.3x. I have neat things planned for the next release, [...]

Wow, lots of “We’re looking to hire” posts on Planet GNOME today. So I might as well say, we, as in VMware, are looking to hire too.
I would try to really sell this place and embellish everything, but there’s no need. The company is so much fun to work at, and every manager I have [...]

For about two weeks now, I’ve noticed that the lights in my apartment have been flickering a lot. I tried changing the bulbs and it did no good. Eventually I concluded that it was the portable heater causing it, until it started having this problem when the heater was off. Several times a day, the [...]

Wow, what a fun week. VMware bought tickets for everyone to go see Star Wars Episode 3 for yesterday. Yesterday’s whole day basically included us going to the movie theater, standing in line, watching the movie, and then either going home or doing a little bit of work and then going home. All in all, [...]

The Motley Fool had some great 401(K) advice. They say that if your 401(K) lets you invest in llamas, consider moving to a job where the owner is not insane, as llamas cannot possibly help your retirement. I think they understimate the power of the llama.
Galago with D-BUS 0.30
I’ve been hacking a bit on Galago’s [...]

I updated my main desktop today, which I haven’t really used since getting my laptop. It went from Fedora Core 2 with gnome 2.8cvs to Ubuntu Hoary. The operation was a success and the patient is in recovery, except with one casualty: I lost my last 5 months of e-mail. I have a script to [...]

I’ve been hacking away at various pieces of Galago lately at an attempt to improve the API and Gtk+ widgets. This is leading to some very cool applications and utilities I’m developing. Hopefully if I can get some of this set up the way I want soon, I’ll get another release put together.
A wiki has [...]

Figure I’d get in on this as well. Not that I’ve been prodded too much by Chris Lee or anything.
This is how I feel some days, you know, after dealing with a massive network failure, code that just won’t work, or certain users.

I felt especially motivated today and started work on an API I came up with in the shower. I spent hours hacking on libgalago and, when I was done, I had reduced the codebase by over 800 lines, all of which consisted of D-BUS 0.23.x-specific communication code. There’s now a much cleaner API abstraction over [...]