[ Home | Articles | Account | People | Projects | FAQ ] Name: Darin Adler
Member since: 2000-04-06 00:39:58
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Homepage: http://www.spies.com/~darin
Notes: I've been doing software for a long time, but not much free stuff from 1987, when I quit college and started working for Apple, until 1999, when I helped start Eazel. I love the "out in the open" style of programming that you do in the free software community. I'd be happy to be judged by the quality of my code. Now that Eazel's gone, I still work on some free software, specifically the Nautilus shell for GNOME.
And Bud said they would have wanted to use me for some press briefings, which would have been great.
I must not skip any further major trade shows. Especially ones where all the hackers show up in person. It's fun to just sit here at home and work, but I really need to meet these people and connect a little more, like I did in the old days at MacWorld.
I like the publicity the company is getting. LinuxWorld Expo was also useful to us because it forced us to get everything together enough to put out a preview release.
I'm having a great time with all the people at Eazel and the other hackers who help out with Nautilus or just hang out on #nautilus on IRC. The free software world has a lot of the same nice things about it that I always loved (and still love) about the Macintosh software community. Nice people. Recognition for what you can do, what Andy calls the meritocracy.
And it's hard to remember that, when we're slogging away at Nautilus. Because Nautilus is just a piece of that puzzle, and Nautilus 1.0 is not supposed to be the be-all, end-all anything, just the place to start on that mission. On the other hand, Nautilus is already a lot better than it looks from screen shots. That much I am sure of.
On a separate topic, the way you connect to CORBA from C really sucks when you have another object system right next to it. It would be nice and pretty easy to make a way to use CORBA directly with GTK objects, without having to code to the OMG-style C interface as an intermediate step. Something like this would be a much better basis for developing Bonobo. Instead, in Bonobo, every single class has to do this by hand.
Anyway, it's also a bummer to find what I consider design problems in GNOME VFS and realize that the politics of convincing everybody is the main reason I can't fix them quickly. In particular, the GnomeVFSURI class is an unwieldy interface for dealing with a simple URI string, but I don't know what I'll do about that or when.
Too much to do! Too little time!
Nautilus hacking has been a lot of fun lately. The version of Bugzilla that Ramiro and I hacked on has been adopted by Helix Code too, so that's kind of nice (although I feel guilty for forking it).
I'm learning more about CORBA all the time, and this turns out to be useful and important in working with Bonobo.
Anyway, I'll put in entries more often. That's my promise to myself.
The afternoon was spent with some coding and some meetings. I checked in two small bug fixes to Bonobo, along with a huge tweak were I got rid of some \n characters that were annoying me. Overall a nice day of coding.
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