http://blog.barisione.org Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:37:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.barisione.org/2010-02/jid-to-email/ Some lovely guy sent me this email: From: ****@gmx.de Subject: Freedom! Take your closed source crap out of this planet, nobody cares about it. -- Freedom Lover -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3.5 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser Note the irony of using an email service that adds ... http://blog.barisione.org/2009-12/some-lovely-people-out-there/ It looks like Santa Claus arrived early for the Collabora employees N900 pyramid, and sadly some of them didn't arrive yet http://blog.barisione.org/2009-12/early-christmas/ In the last months the traffic on the #telepathy IRC channel on Freenode has been constantly growing, reaching the point where communication among developers is difficult and, at the same time, some new Empathy users are scared and don't talk on the channel. This is why we just created a ... http://blog.barisione.org/2009-11/new-empathy-irc-channel/ 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 ... http://blog.barisione.org/2009-10/contacts-on-maemo/ Ross, your examples are not as bad as something I found in some code I had to fix recently: GList *list = e_vcard_get_attributes (evcard); for (list = g_list_first (list); list != NULL; list = g_list_next (list)) { ... http://blog.barisione.org/2009-07/more-glist-anti-patterns/ 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 ... http://blog.barisione.org/2009-06/parsing-names/ During this week-end I finally found some time to start playing with Vala and Clutter. I would like to write a small game using them, but I'm not sure I will finish it because the more the time passes the less I seem able to write code in my free ... http://blog.barisione.org/2009-03/vala-clutter-limoncello/ It has been a year since I moved to Cambridge from Italy. It feels weird, but things go well here so for now I'm not planning any other change. Clearly I need to cook a cake for this event . http://blog.barisione.org/2009-03/time-goes-by/ When I joined Collabora last year I started to work on porting WebKit GTK to a device produced by iRex technologies based on the GNOME mobile stack and with an electonic paper display. My task was to make WebKit usable for the browser that they want to ship with the ... http://blog.barisione.org/2009-02/webkit-gtk-on-irex-digital-readers/