Today, we released libview 0.5.3, with some awesome new widgets, such as FieldEntry and IPEntry. A short while later we released 0.5.4, which was a small bug fix release. It’s a really cool release/set of releases, and I think people will find FieldEntry/IPEntry interesting, as I haven’t seen anything like that in the GTK+ world [...]

There has been a lot of excitement about VMware Player on Slashdot and other sites. I’ve also seen many people talk about it on IRC and some have messaged me with questions. Namely, what’s the catch? Why give away our virtualization platform? Are the VMs DRMed? Will they expire? Do they not work as well [...]

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VMware announced today at VMworld 2005 the VMware Player for Windows and Linux. It’s a free program that allows users to use VMs without needing to purchase Workstation. It’s not a substitute for Workstation, as it won’t allow you to create or modify VMs or to snapshot them, but it’s [...]

I’ve been hacking on another sexy GtkEntry subclass, but this time, it’s not part of libsexy. It’s part of libview, VMware’s Incredibly Exciting Widgets. One of our developers built an IP Entry widget a short while ago, but it had some issues and just felt hard to use. I’ve never liked IP entries, particularly the [...]

The original GTK+ IconEntry widget has just gotten sexier!
I was in need of SexyIconEntry today for some work, and decided now was a good time to fix some of the problems I haven’t taken the time to fix in this widget, and add some features at the same time. To start with, SexyIconEntry now works [...]

Okay, Serenity absolutely rocks, and if you haven’t seen it, you should. Preferably after watching at least a few episodes of Firefly first. It surpassed my expectations and I felt it was a good ending to the series. That is, if it’s really an end. Part of the credits indicated that they have reserved the [...]