Marco Barisione’s Weblog

During the Christmas holidays I managed to find some time to write a couple of small programs related to the address book on the N900; they are nothing too fancy (no UI, no proper packaging, not the best code quality, etc.) as I wrote them for my personal use, but I still think it could [...]

It looks like Santa Claus arrived early for the Collabora employees
N900 pyramid, and sadly some of them didn’t arrive yet

After the Maemo Summit the details on the address book application and framework in Maemo 5 are finally completely public so I can openly talk about what I worked on during the past year and, even better, I actually have a smartphone that runs this software! (Thanks to Nokia that gave out 300 N900s, but [...]

In the last weeks I have been asked several times to modify some components I’m working on to add the ability to split a full name in its components (first name, family name, etc.).
It looks like most people have great expectations about this working correctly but they get annoyed when it fails, and you can [...]

Yesterday I received my Indian VISA, just in time to be able to fly to Bangalore for foss.in 2008 .

In Bangalore I will give a talk on Telepathy in general, but there will be also two more specific Telepathy-related talks: Olivier (also from Collabora) will give a talk on video-conferencing using Farsight 2, while Sandeep [...]

I’ve not yet had time to blog about the Maemo Summit and I’m already going to another summit!
The Maemo Summit was very good and with many more people than I expected so I had a lot of interesting conversations. I think that my talk on Telepathy went pretty well (but you are free to contradict [...]

In a few days I will go to the first Maemo Summit in Berlin where I will give a talk explaining how Telepathy works, how the different components interact and how to use tubes for arbitrary data transfer, useful for instance for playing games with chat contacts or to view a contact’s desktop using VNC. [...]