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Tweets for week ending 2010-08-22

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+. #

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Openismus day 14: Got to work at 6:10 so I could watch afternoon matches. Finished up menus & actions, made actions contextually sensitive. #
Openismus day 13: Made some changes in yesterday's commit after input from Murray, fixed a silly logic bug and started with menus & actions. #
Openismus day 12: Still learning gtk+ API. Focused on GtkTreeIter and GtkComboBoxEntry today. Git repo here: http://bit.ly/bu7uHi #
Openismus day 11: Got a simple GTK+ app working to a point where I could push to my Gitorious account. Learning the GtkTreeView API mostly. #
Openismus day 10: Actually started writing code; simple gtk+ stuff. Got my jhbuild configuration down to ~60 modules instead of ~260. #

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Openismus day 9: Went to Linux Tag here in Berlin. Attended talks about MeeGo, systemd and Google & open source. After-party at c-base. #
Openismus day 8: more gtk+, tracking down bug in glade3. Decided to learn Emacs on my own time. Got Eclipse set up with Linux Tools plugin. #
Openismus day 7: Did more gtk+ and emacs. RSI getting worse, though. Think I'm going to start wearing my wrist brace and see a doctor soon. #
Openismus day 6: more gtk+; looked into glib, gobject, and coding conventions for gtk+/gnome. more emacs setup. #
Openismus day 5: finished this round of jhbuild, started setting up emacs, started looking at gtk+ more. #