Recent blog entries for chema

Ok, here I go again pretending I am going to keep up with my diary.

I am working for Ximian now managing the Ximian Setup Tools project, (which I want to rename to Ximian System Tools). Work at ximian is very good and I could not be happier. I have not done any gnome-print work recently which sucks.

I found a good office space in Mexico and I getting together with the lawyers tuesday to sort out the details. I can't wait to have an office here, seems like it is going to be so much fun.

Other stuff I need to do is metathemes, which have a butt ugly gui but Anna is fixing. I need to do some hacking with them to get them to a releasable state.

I am still not feeling good about having a heated discussion with michael, I need to talk to him to get in sync again.

24 Oct 2000 (updated 24 Oct 2000 at 15:56 UTC) »

Skydiving is FUN FUN FUN ...

The skydiving trip was soooo cool. I had so much fun last Saturday. I made my 198 jump. Getting close to the 200 mark. Have to do that more often.

Where are my hacking powers ??

Have I lost my hacking powers ? I have not been able to get down and do some serious hacking for two weeks now. I am begining to get concerned that my hacking powers have left me. I think I am way too burned out.I am hoping to get the back soon. The only work I've been able to do is gedit stuff which in part is good since gedit was lacking chema's love.

School is requiring too much time from me recently

As the end of the semester aproaches my school duties are starting to accumulate. I am spending more time doing school work and will probably do till the semester ends.

Lucy

Oh ! what can I say.

Ok, no diaries entries for a while, hope I can start finding a small amount of time to keep writing them again.

A lot has happened since my last diary entry, too much stuff to decide where to start.

I gave a conference & seminar on Linux yesterday. I was impressed my how many people attended. It was great, and the the atendees where very excited about linux. I talked about Free Software for about 30 minutes, then Rodrigo talked about the server side of linux for about 15 minutes, and then I demoed gnome and all the new cool apps. Gnumeric, abi, evolution, sodipody & nautilus.

This guys are so excited about it that I am going to start a a Linux User group for my school. The first meeting is going to be next friday. Let see how that goes.

Because of the Linux talk, I took my computer from home and installed it in the school for a couple of days. Having good internet access is great ! I downloaded OpenOffice binaries yesterday in less than 10 minutes, it was about 50 Mb. I am just not used to this kind of internet connection. The bad part of having my computer at school is that I can't hack on Sundays and Saturdays after 1 pm.

Well, I've got lots of stuff to do. I need to buy one of those cool PDA's to get all organized and stuff.

Advogato Certification ... and my friends from Spain

I wonder how are my spanish friends doing. I haven't spoken with cuenca, rodrigo and acs for a while. I wanted to mail them but I have very little to say to them other than "Hi!". They certified me which is nice from them and this reminds me to tell you why do I not certify other hacers :

  • I have not read any code from most of them
  • There are different stuff to take into account when talking about someone's hacking abilities
  • It's hard to put hackers in 4 discrete levels, but even saying a number from 1 to 10 is a lot Worse
  • Cant remember the other one.

gedit recent hacking

After wasting a FULL day [ meaning from 11 am to 5am of the next day ] finding and fixing bugs for the printing algorithm to determine lines and do the word wrapping, I decided to implement it again. It was a wise choice because is stupid to mess with code you do not completelly understand. I was desperated but I learned my lesson. The new one is not done , I still need to replace tabs for a number of spaces in the posctscript printing but it is beautifull. This is one of those cases in which you need to implement something once to learn what the problem is about and redo it to actually do the implementation.

It looks like jleach has lost interest in gedit. I guess I will be on my own in the near future, althou I have not asked him about it.

school

Schoo's summer semester starts this wensday. Yuck ! Have I said enough times how much I don't like going to school. Sitting on a classroom is just not my idea of learning. I guess we are not created equal after all.

My gnome page

I started my gnome page here it does not have a lot of content [ close to nothing ] but I guess the only way to get started is to get started.

CVS howto

I want to start a CVS howto. Not that I know a lot about CVS but a lot of people ask CVS questions.

Comdex Mexico

The talk kicked ass ! The audience seemed very excited about gnome and I got a million questions while demoing GNOME. I think I will become a very good speaker if I get to practice some more. Tuba went with me and he told me that he liked the talk. I saw Mancha, Pato and Pepe which was very good. A reported asked me for an interview after the press meeting we did. I left the place SOoooo excited :). I am a happy hacker.

gedit hacking

I finally commited to the CVS the new search code. It still needs some gui/UI works but the internals seem pretty good to me. I can see a release in the near future. I got this idea of adding pipes support to gedit. So that you can print to gedit , and analyze the printing code or something like "grep text * | gedit" and have gedit create a doc with the text piped to it.

Skydiving !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am going skydiving tomorow . Yeeeeeeeeeejjjjjjjjjaaaaaaaa !

gnumeric release

I helped the gnumeric guys with some bug finding/fixing power for their latest release. I like gnumeric's internals and can't wait to hack on it. But I still need to learn a lot of other stuff before I do so. I just love (as every other gnomer ) gnumeric. Jody killed a LOT of bugs.

gedit hacking

Today was a gedit hacking day. I am rewriting search.c that hadles :

goto line
count lines
search
search & replace

It has proven a lot more work than I thougth at first, but gedit needs it bad. Plus I am learning a lot of stuff about gtk that I need to know.

gnome-print chat with juantomas

I had a great IRC conversation with juantomas regarding gnome-print. He developed a comercial windows driver and he gave me a lot of good ideas to think about. He needs to get to know the details of gnome-print if he wants to be of some help. Helping from the outside is an oximoron. Great guy !

Comdex 2000 in Mexico City

Miguel said in the #gnome channel that he is not going to go to the Comdex conference he was supposed to do. For some stupid reason, the Comdex organizators didn't asked him before making the schedule and they just DECIDED that he was going to be able to go. He told Arturo that I could do the talk for him. Wow ! this would rule but I expecting that this will not happen.

I am a happy man after fighting with my PC

After figthing with my lovely Dell, I finally made that anoying noise to shut up. It took me 3 hr. to fix it. The noise was comming from the fan of the Video Board, Can you belive it ? now video boards need fans too. I can now sleep without that stupid noise in the background all the time. No need to turn suzzy ( the name of my PC ) off before going to sleep.

EVOLUTION is SOOO cool !

I ran Evolution for the first time today. I was _VERY_ Impressed. It is so beautifull. I asked miguel if there was some printing code stuff to do over IRC, I am glad that he didn't heard me since I have my TODO list pretty much full. Nice job from the Helix Coders.

Diary entries shorter every time ...

Why do I write shorter diary entries every time ? I guess I am too tired at the time I write them, oh well.

Printed today a HI-RES picture with my Epson 840 using Windows ( on shakira, my Laptop ) and it was beautifull. That is a good benchmark to meassure to.

School almost over

Yeah ! but I am going to take summer classes so not a lot of free time. I need to get the school done, not enjoying it by any means.

LOVE ALL, SERVE ALL

PCL driver is out

gnome-print now ships with an unfinished PCL driver. Woooa ! You can't use is yey tho.

Busy, busy, busy

Today is Epson's day. Lotsa work to do



Did I say I just LOVE Hewlett Packard ? their stuff is great. Need to work on non-HP stuff today tho. I wish all the printer manufacturers had the same quality specs out there as HP does.

I haven't written a diary entry in a long time because I am working on some stuff that I am resisting to not tell you yet : ). But I have been hacking like crazy.

I have not been to school in 15+ days, thats not good.

gedit is doing fine we haven't gotten a real bug report since the release. I am thinking of gnome-printifying pan ( the newsreader ) and gnome-db. Pan I will most likely do it this week. gnome-db I am not to sure, I need that rodrigo does some work so that I don't have to deal with anyting other than the printing code.

I am meeting federico today at Nuclecu. Cool ! I have not seen him in a long time.

Miguel is comming to Mexico and he will give a talk on the World Trade Center. I am looking forward to talk to him. He is so busy that is hard to get his attention while he is IRC'ing or hacking.

Love all, serve all.

Toshiba Sucks

I got IP_MASQ working very fast on my desktop thanks to the good HOWTO available. have been trying to get the ethernet PCMCIA card for my toshiba to work without much luck. According to the Howto, Toshiba released incorrect information on ther chipset and this driver is buggy because of that. I sent a mail to toshiba saying "I want to buy a Laptop and I heard that the PCMCIA ... ( you can figure the rest )". The PCMCIA author must be very pissed towards toshiba since he has a note in the HOWTO stating "I do not recommend buying toshiba laptops ...", well I am too. Just wait a couple of years and they will be begging him to apply some patches to that same drivers.


gedit 0.7.0

gedit 0.7.0 should be out today or tomorow. A lot of code got overhauled and should be more stable. I am very satisfied with the work and the prining is nice. Don't forget to download your copy here tomorow.


gnome-print and GNOME Entry level too high

Need to work on gnome-print. I now have a good idea on what to work on. More on this latter. I have not been hacking for long and I think the entry level to hack on gnome has to get lowered, its hard to find small tasks you can use to learn more and become a better hacker.


BARRAPUNTO.COM

This site is cool visit here is the spanish version of slashdot. Visit the gnome link.

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