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In Progress: New GNOME Shell Journal extension
Its been a while since I worked on the Journal extension for GNOME. When I left it it looked like this But with the new GNOME Shell layout (which is pretty awesome btw) exposing the Journal wouldn't...
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Playing with Shell extensions (playing with overview and dash)
Today I worked on hiding the workspace switcher if "dynamic-workspaces" is switched off (via tweak-tool) and the number of workspaces is set to one only. So if you apply these settings your overview...
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Zeitgeist 1.0 almost there (call for hackers)
So after 4 years of development Zeitgeist is reaching 1.0. The Zeitgeist team has reached a big goal/milestone :D What's new? New libzeitgeist2: instead of libzeitgeist which was developed and hosted...
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My first Mozilla contributions
As of beginning of December I started contributing to the Mozilla community... I must say amazing people and amazing environment. I was invited by Josh Matthews and David W. Boswell to a Mozillians...
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Zeitgeist 1.0 Beta is out
So finally we have rolled out Zeitgeist 1.0 beta... With Zeitgeist 1.0 we are introducing libzeitgeist2, a Vala port of the previously independent libzeitgeist library. The new libzeitgeist2 comes...
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Music in development...
So I will keep this short... I assembled a task force to work on GNOME Music based on https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Music. Development is really coming along nicely. Cesar Garcia Tapia had started...
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GNOME Music development status
The last weeks a lot of volunteers showed up to develop on (GNOME) Music. Now we can browse the albums and their content making it our most complete view. Playback to the albums view and songs view is...
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GNOME Music: Reaching the end of phase one.
TL;DR We can now browse our albums, artists and songs (no playlists yet) and play them :D Details: GNOME Music application development is reaching the end of phase one (out of three). This phase...
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Globaleaks 0.2 Alpha
Globaleaks 0.2 Alpha is out. Globaleaks is an open source project aimed at creating a worldwide, anonymous, censorship-resistant, distributed whistle-blowing platform. It enables organizations...
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GNOME Music: Phase Two and more...
Before I start blogging about the progress of GNOME Music, I would like to announce my happiness (as well as the whole gnome music team) that we now have 3 students sponsored to hack on GNOME Music....
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Bye Bye Wordpress! Hello Ghost
Finally managed to move away from Wordpress. One of the reasons I did less blogging is that I felt that Wordpress became more of a CMS and less of a blogging platform. I stumbled upon ghost which I...
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Moving on...
The last year has been a rough year. I started working for Deutsche Telekom (with a bunch of other FLOSS developers) on OpenStack. What started off as developing new features upstream ended up being...
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Sc(r)um
I am entitled to my opinion and in my honest opinion: scrum sucks big time Here is why (again my opinion). Does not empower developers to become creative. Good way to sell that the developers are...
View ArticleMarconi love :)
I have lots of positive things to say about the OpenStack community. They managed to create a great mixture of professional yet agile and FLOSSy. Amazing CI/CD and devstack is just an awesome way to...
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Ich bin ein Xamarin(er) ♥
As of the beginning of the April I am a Xamarin (that is what Xamarin employees call themselves). At Xummit I met the rest of the Xamarins and I had an incredible time there (dare I say magical ♥). I...
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Counting flows (Semi-evaluation of CMS, CML and PMC)
Assume we have a stream of events coming in one at a time, and we need to count the frequency of the different types of events in the stream. In other words: We are receiving fruits one at a time in no...
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Skizze - A probabilistic data-structures service and storage (Alpha)
At my day job we deal with a lot of incoming data for our product, which requires us to be able to calculate histograms and other statistics on the data-stream as fast as possible. One of the best...
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Skizze progress and REPL
Over the last 3 weeks, based on feedback we proceeded fledging out the concepts and the code behind Skizze. Neil Patel suggested the following: So I've been thinking about the server API. I think we...
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Skizze: Behind the Scenes of Alpha 2
Based on the feedback we got for our initial alpha release, we worked on improving Skizze and moving the project forward. To recap, Skizze is a sketch data store to deal with all problems around...
View ArticleLog levels described as sh*t hitting the fan
Log Level Description DEBUG poop contains corn TRACE poop currently moving into colon WARN sh*t is approaching the fan ERROR sh*t has hit the fan SEVERE sh*t is spraying into the fan CRITICAL sh*t is...
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