Bastien Nocera: Power management in GNOME 3.8
In the past couple of weeks, apart from reviewing very many patches for gnome-control-center (especially for new and re-designed panels), I've been working on updating the power management handling in...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: knocking on private back doors with the web browser
I woke up at five this morning with two things in my head.One was, most unfortunately, Rebecca Black's Friday, except with "Monday" -- you know, "Monday, Monday, gettin' up on Monday, hack, hack, hack,...
View ArticleGuillaume Emont: Migrating to Jekyll
I’ve decided to switch my blog from WordPress to a Jekyll-based system. When this article goes live, the migration should be done. I hope I managed to avoid flooding the planets that aggregate me with...
View ArticleStefan Kost: 14 Feb 2013
buzztard 0.7 is out We started the year with a release in the beginning of January. So far only a few issues were reported. Patches for these are on the 0.7.1 branch. One last minute change in 0.7 was...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: opengl particle simulation in guile
Hello, internets! Did you know that today marks two years of Guile 2? Word!Guile 2 was a major upgrade to Guile's performance and expressiveness as a language, and I can say as a user that it is so...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: on generators
Hello! Is this dog?Hi dog this is Andy, with some more hacking nargery. Today the topic is generators.(shift k)By way of introduction, you might recall (with a shudder?) a couple of articles I wrote in...
View ArticleMichael Sheldon: Ogre3D on Jolla’s SailfishOS
I spent a bit of time hacking around with the Sailfish SDK and managed to get a rough port of Ogre3D working: Video of Ogre3D running under Sailfish This is running within the emulator using the Mesa...
View ArticleStefan Kost: 14 Mar 2013
buzztard As I already mentioned in last months issue, I ported buzztard and gst-buzztard to use gstreamer-1.0. It will require 1.1.X for some fixes in gstreamer itself. So how did it went. The basic...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: Taking on a new job at Red Hat
So I assume most of you have read Jonathan Blanfords blog post about leaving Red Hat and me taking over for him as head of the Red Hat desktop team. First of all I would like to thank Jonathan for both...
View ArticleZeeshan Ali: New in Boxes 3.8
We just rolled out Boxes 3.7.92 and have now entered code freeze. This means that apart from translations and doc updates, Boxes is ready for the stable 3.8 release (due next Monday). So whats new you...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer Core and Plugins 1.0.6 bug-fix release
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce a new bug-fix release for the new API and ABI-stable 1.x series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. Check out the release notes for GStreamer core,...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer OpenMAX IL wrapper plugin 1.0.0 release
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first GStreamer OpenMAX IL wrapper plugin release for the new API and ABI-stable 1.x series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. Check out the release...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam: La carte Opus et les points de service qui n’en...
Il se trouve que les cartes Opus expirent (simplement parce qu’ils ont décidé que ça serait cool que ça expire, même si c’est une carte anonyme à tarif régulier). Chez moi, la pharmacie du coin a...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: sexuality and sexism
Greetings, dear readers. Today's article is not about compilers, but about the people that write and run them. Like me, and like you.I write a lot about programming here because it's interesting to me...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: GStreamer Hackfest in Milan
As those of you following the GStreamer development mailing list or the GStreamer Google Plus profile know, we have been having a GStreamer hackfest in Milan over the last few days. We have 17 people...
View ArticlePhil Normand: GStreamer hackfest in Milan
I spent Easter in Milan, attending the second official GStreamer hackfest. It has been a productive event and, as always, a pleasure to hang out with some members of the GStreamer core dev team fame...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam: GStreamer Hackfest 2013: Moving Images
I’m back from this year’s GStreamer hackfest, which was fantastic as usual — an intersection of great minds, big challenges, flaky Wi-Fi and good food. Christian already did a generic summary, so I’ll...
View ArticleBastien Nocera: Geocluing the desktop, slowly
Over the past couple of months, Satabdi has been working during her Outreach Program for Women on geocode-glib, and Zeeshan more recently joined us to help with cleaning up some of the code.As...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: thoughts on blink
So Chromium forked WebKit again! You've probably seen some articles on it already, but Alex Russell's piece is pretty good.In retrospect the split was easy to see coming, but I can't help but feel...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam: Le nipponophone de l’autobus
Hier dans l’autobus, j’ai eu la chance de tomber sur un homme blanc parlant au téléphone… dans le langage du soleil levant. Après un très long moment de tergiversation mentale après la fin de son...
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