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Tweets for week ending 2010-11-07

Sunday, November 7th, 2010

Openismus day 100: This is the last daily update. Worked out ConferenceGoer's initial data acquisition class hierarchy. Implementing now. #
Openismus day 99: Did some admin stuff. Helped P. Finished off small sample conference schedule. Blogged about Merkmal: http://ur1.ca/29lpv #
Openismus day 98: Fleshed out microformats to be used in ConferenceGoer and started making example conference pages to scrape. #
Openismus day 97: Did some sketches and wrote down some thoughts for my next small project, ConferenceGoer. Few small changes to Merkmal. #
Openismus day 96: Couple small code changes to Merkmal. Released cluttermm 1.1.2 at Murray's behest. Attempted to get GNOME ftp access. #

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

Openismus day 95: Offered Merkmal up for review. Basically spent the day reworking code based on feedback. Release should be coming soon. #
Openismus day 94: Got game play working in Merkmal now. Also cherry-picked Fridays fixes in cluttermm master to cluttermm-1.2 branch. #
Openismus day 93: Reworked some code and got cards responding to clicks and such in Merkmal. Game play should be be working very soon. #
Openismus day 92: Got initial layout and card interaction working as well as logic for menu item sensitivity implemented for Merkmal. #
Openismus day 91: Had to backport my patch from yesterday to cluttermm tarball due to crashes using master. Moving forward w/ Merkmal now. #

Sunday, October 24th, 2010

Openismus day 90: Filed bug http://ur1.ca/25b19 for cluttermm issue. murrayc helped fix my bad patch. Merkmal layout code almost finished. #
Openismus day 89: Made progess on Merkmal until I ran into an issue initializing a Clutter::Cairo::Texture. Found the problem @ end off day. #
Openismus day 88: Back from baby leave! Caught up on email. Helped P w/ her app. Got back to full speed on my Merkmal game. #

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

Openismus day 87: Made changes to Merkmal that Murray proposed. RefPtr'd objects. Son, Rigby, born. #

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

Openismus day 86: Got initial class structure of Merkmal compiling and commited. Doesn't do anything and still needs considerable changes. #
Openismus day 85: More Merkmal hacking. Detour into what it would take to build clutter-gtk to gtk3. Reviewed signals and refptr's in gtkmm. #
Openismus day 84: Remember kids, if you wanna waste time w/ weird errors just forget to call clutter's init function in your clutter app. #
Openismus day 83: Small change to clutter-gtkmm: http://ur1.ca/1ur4h. Fought with jhbuild a bit. Getting weird error in Merkmal. #
Openismus day 82: Learning more Gtkmm. Added menus and toolbar using UIManager and Actions. http://ur1.ca/1sh08 Started basic Clutter stuff. #
Openismus day 81: Read 2nd half of Clutter Cookbook. Got Merkmal into Gitorious… just autotools and i18n stuff. Signed up for MeeGo conf.! #

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Openismus day 80: Accompanied Vada to 2nd day of pre-school. Small jhbuild dep fix. Started on gmemory C++ port. Dinner with #ds2011 team. #
Openismus day 79: Read half of http://ur1.ca/1rhny. Spent rest of day in #ds2011 kick-off meeting. Tried to fix some gtkmm build issues. #
Openismus day 78: Fixed another small bug in cluttermm_tutorial. Set up Merkmal project. Spent rest of time with jhbuild issues. #
Openismus day 77: Fixed another example in cluttermm tutorial. http://ur1.ca/1pgel Wrote a blog post. http://ur1.ca/1pge5 Ate PB&J sandwich. #

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

Openismus day 76: murrayc showed me the proper way to fix cluttermm bug. Committed fix for that and a few other issues. http://ur1.ca/1o8sp #
Openismus day 75: Found the problem with cluttermm. Clutter::Alpha::get_timeline() was the culprit. Came up with a fix that worked. #
Openismus day 74: Went thru clutter code to see what tutorial program is doing. emacs+gdb+gtags (GNU Global) is nice for this. More gdb too. #
Openismus day 73: Took a bit of a detour to go deeper into gdb. Think I've pretty much gone though the entire manual. Back to cluttermm bug. #
Openismus day 72: Struggling with the bug in cluttermm. Maybe I should first understand what the clutter c code is doing. #
Openismus day 71: Learned to use gdb to debug reference counting issues in GObject-based code. http://ur1.ca/1lrpi & comments were helpful. #

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

Openismus day 70: Looking into ref count issues in cluttermm. Grokking refs in *mm/glib. Doc patch committed in clutter. http://ur1.ca/1kpji #
Openismus day 69: Working on getting effects example in cluttermm_tutorial working. Found a few other examples are broken. Looking on it. #
Openismus day 68: Got cluttermm compiling & commited changes. http://ur1.ca/1jr3k Then fixed dumb std::vector issue. http://ur1.ca/1jr3x :-# #
Openismus day 67: Trudged through compile issues while removing *Handle containers in cluttermm. Started using emacs yasnippet module. #
Openismus day 66: Learnt enough Perl to read some of the *mm binding generation code. Workd on removing *Handle usage in cluttermm. #

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. #