Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
Novell which is an amazing company, and also
Dell who in days of yore provided me with a
free laptop for Gnome development / conferences.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
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- Up at 7.00am, ug, feeling woozy.
- Train to London; tried to read ORBit internals with a view
to nice asynchronous interfaces, not much success focusing on the matter
at hand.
- Got to NetProject's
Architecture Briefing Masterclass, some interesting talks.
programme
was interesting. Grilled Peter at length on ORBs, type based marshaling
(worried about size issues, thinks the IR is baroque), UUIDs /
namespaceing (use names), whether Java namespacing was a failure (no).
- Did an Evolution presentation before lunch, and then an
uglier one on the rather blurry projector, still, Evolution handled
beautiful, stable, slick, handled a massive mail box, created new
filters beautifuly, nice nice nice. Everyone wants binary compatibility
with MS' undocumented Exchange protocols; sigh.
- 6.00pm, trains in a total mess, power failure or summat.
Train incredibly packed, people standing in every spare space; tried
to read the DAISY paper from IBM.
- Got home, ate quickly, washed up; grabbed mail, started
chewing. Cody's patch in a nice form went into Bonobo, anti-aliased
pixmaps, but only for people with pixmap themes; some obscure bug
knobbles other cases; wierd. Frank committed his lazy function
parsing work, nice.
- Elliot let me make a nice little private branch of
ORBit to do "serious breakage"TM on, when I'm done we can have a
race, the hare and the tortoise (cf. latest economist on the US
election ).
- Talked to Miguel, and after some head banging he
managed to communicate what we need to do to me; excellent.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Novell, The
Lithuanian Gov't or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's also important to
realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences,
bio.
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)
