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Tweets for week ending 2010-09-05

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

Openismus day 65: With murrayc's help, found fix for cluttermm_tutorial segfault. Requires going deeper into *mm bindings. Will commit soon. #
Openismus day 64: tbf helped try to find cause of segfault in cluttermm_tutorial. Still couldn't fix it. Learnt some advanced gdb stuff. #
Openismus day 63: Think I fixed yesterday's bug. cluttermm-tutorial still segfaults a few lines later, though. Got GNOME git commit access! #
Openismus day 62: Looked through lots of *mm libraries to get an idea of how things are really done. Tracked down another bug in cluttermm. #
Openismus day 61: Finished up *mm wrapping tutorial, fixed small bug in cluttermm that broke cluttermm turorial. http://www.ur1.ca/1ecom #

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Openismus day 60: Learning M4 as it seems useful for autotools and C++/*mm bindings. ION, BBQ at Openismus office on Friday 27th, August. #
Openismus day 59: Looking into cluttermm_tutorial problems which is leading me into learning more C++-binding stuff, which is fine with me. #
Openismus day 58: Got cluttermm building in jhbuild by adding atkmm dependency. Had to use gtkmm's gtkmm-2.22 branch. Needs 2.24 branch? #
Openismus day 57: Started porting gmemory to use gtkmm. Got autotools stuff converted. Couple minor issues with jhbuild and *mm stuff. #
Openismus day 56: Got emacs configured nicely now. Dropped CEDET for now. Currently using autocompletion, xcscope gccsense, flymake. #
Openismus day 55: My look into gmmproc turned into me spending more time setting up emacs. Issues getting semantic to find system libs. #

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

Openismus day 54: Rereading the gmmproc documentation slowly. Doing the example is good excuse to reacquaint myself with Emacs. #
Openismus day 53: Committed code for glib-mkenums changes. Began looking into updating cluttermm. Gotta learn to wrap libs sooner or later. #
Openismus day 52: Learned about glib-mkenums and implemented most needed changes. Remember emums != enums . Finished http://is.gd/efGXH. #

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

Openismus day 51: Mostly distracted by Andre's beautiful pony tail and conservative rhetoric. A little secret about Andre.. He eats tofu. #
Openismus day 50: 50 days at Openismus. Woot! Started looking into glib-mkenums. Read half of http://is.gd/efGXH. Other stuff I forget. #
Openismus day 49: After problems with clutter-gtk on Fedora, I decided to install Ubuntu. Reran Valgrind. Now I get no definite leaks. Hmm?! #
Openismus day 48: More memory leak analysis w/ Valgrind. Mentioned some definite leaks that I can't seem to find. Did fix a few, though. #
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Openismus day 47: After taking care of some paper work, I started using Valgrind's Memcheck tool to find leaks in gmemory. #

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

Openismus day 46: Finished autoconf changes to fix install issues in gmemory. Bungled first push. Commit here: http://bit.ly/cRpibS #
Openismus day 45: Back to work after 2 days of moving into new flat. Started cleaning up autoconf problems. Added –enable-warnings flag. #
Openismus day 40-44: GUADEC! #

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Openismus day 39: Today I'm releasing version 0.1 of GMemory. Ugly warnings still there but it's very playable. Enjoy. http://bit.ly/aWJ0sH #
Oops. That last update should have read "Openismus day 38." I knew that would happen eventually. #
Openismus day 37: GMemory now has colored shapes instead of just colors. Getting ugly warnings from cairo, though. First release tomorrow. #
Openismus day 37: More GUI polishing. http://bit.ly/9D4kPc There's a small bug where the last card is not shown due to dialog blocking it. #
Openismus day 36: Decided to do the GUI before animation. Got game controls working. Statistics and timer are now in status bar. #
Openismus day 35: Got gameplay and resizing working pretty well now. Will tackle animation next, then the GUI. Code here: http://is.gd/dyKoj #
Openismus day 34: Got GMemory actually working. I really need to do a redesign, but window resizing and animation are next. Oh.. It was HOT! #

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Openismus day 33: Started implementing actual game play functionality for GMemory. Followed up on Fedora clutter bug: http://bit.ly/b7sz3M #
Openismus day 32: Got randomization and basic layout completed for GMemory. Commit is here: http://bit.ly/a4pnos #
Openismus day 31: Ran into quite a few problem with my card layout and randomization code. Had to learned a good bit about gdb and GList. #
Openismus day 30: More work on gmemory. implementing randomize and layout. Read section two of http://bit.ly/bdRVsU #

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Openismus day 29: More good progress on GMemory. Learned signals in GObjects and how to track down segfaults with gdb. http://is.gd/dm5J9 #
Openismus day 28: Made good progress on gmemory. Had to rearrange my classes after rethinking things. Code here: http://is.gd/dl84O #
Openismus day 27: Followed up on yesterday's bug, finally got back to programming. Got stuck on a segfault. Still looking for the cause. #
Openismus day 26: Tracked down the proper combination of package versions to get things working. Bug report here: http://bit.ly/b7sz3M #
Openismus day 25: Finally got my first clues to my clutter problem. Seems Fedora packages are broken. My be graphics driver, though. ?? #

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Well, it seems that the gtk_clutter_embed examples work fine in Ubuntu 10.4 but not Fedora 13. I'll have to look into why that is on Monday. #
Openismus day 24: Still looking at gtk_clutter issue. Didn't get much done due to heat & lack of sleep. Fell asleep on a beanbag. #
Openismus day 23: Ran into issues with gtk_clutter_embed and events. Clutter-only code works fine. Affects Openismus clutter tutorial, too. #
Openismus day 22: Went much deeper into clutter and GObject. –The devil's in the details.– Very basic clutter-derived GObjects working. #
Openismus day 21: Setup basic UI, started boilerplate code for clutter-based playing area and card gobjects. Then, BBQ! #
Openismus day 20: Familiarized myself with Clutter and how to use it within my game. Decided not to use Glade/GtkBuilder for main window. #

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Openismus day 19: Fought a battle to get intltool integrated with autotools. Was victorious in the end! See commit: http://bit.ly/ahVlWb. #
Openismus day 18: Setup project skeleton using Autotools: http://bit.ly/9Q49wV. Started setting up project for i18n using intltools. #
Openismus day 17: False start on new project. Wanted to integrate with GNOME games, but decided to start from scratch. Read autotools tut. #
Openismus day 16: Read first chapter of http://bit.ly/9z7X1q. Decided on Gtk+ app to work on: "Memory" game such as http://bit.ly/bq5ZXO #
Openismus day 15: Met Murray for the first time. Talked about progress & what to expect going forward. Fixed small issues in Gtkmm and Gtk+. #