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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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

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: ...

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 ...

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+ ...

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 ...

Openismus day 4: more jhbuild (Is there anyone for whom this works?), read up on gmmproc, made my first patch with amigadave's help. # Openismus day 3: opened bank account, more jhbuild, mailing lists, autotools tutorial, read a few "items" in "Effective C++." # Openismus day 2: started building GNOME with jhbuild, went to doctor ...

What have I learned from 2 weeks with #OSX Every OS has it's problems. And to think I even partly believed the #OSX lore. I prefer #Ubuntu # Just now when trying to type "united airlines" I inadvertently typed #ubuntu airlines. This is bad. # Mom was to fly back home on Friday. Illness got ...