While we're at it, Kexi looks very promising, but doesn't support PostgreSQL yet. Hm...
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While we're at it, Kexi looks very promising, but doesn't support PostgreSQL yet. Hm...
Advogato carries many meta discussions currently, and this is one of them :)
Health status Not doing very well yet, but survived the 3rd virus attack this year. A very odd year, and not much coding possible right now. Yet I'm confident I can meet a fellow developer (jzaun) in real life soon, as long as he'll be staying on this continent.
Gaming
Updated the web interface so if a player wins or loses, it is instantly visible with a browser from anywhere in the world. Neato.
Lots of work will have to go into supporting SQL tables, mostly for technical name -> real (i18n'ed) name lookups.
Now if only all the games and clients would support the new features. Tomorrow, I plan to spend some minutes with chrisime to improve at least the GNOME 2.x client. This will set all KDE fellows at odds, but I've always wanted a rewrite of the old KDE applications, and don't have the time for it right now.
Hackers vs CS Theory Now that's a topic which still concerns me. I've been into software development for so many years, and only the recent months put development into perspective with the theory behind the code. Will I aim at being a hacker forever? A lousy software manager? A think-tank type of guy? Time will tell...
I will use the time to fixup some bugs in own applications, mostly because a month after that I'll give a presentation at LinuxTag Chemnitz. Scary I'm the only one who speaks about games. I should start a 2nd open source identity in areas like security or MS Windows compatibility, that would raise the chance for speeches :)
United Soap opera of America
What will the next term be US war minister Rumsbums uses to describe us? Did anyone tell him already that in Europe we still eat each other and haven't invented the wheel yet? Someone send him a letter so he knows for sure, together with a map so he can find that strange Yurop thing.
I hate being political but all the nasty war planning that is going on disturbs the feeling of hacking.
Another soap opera
Starring a little programmer who still has a cold...
GGZ
When the current stack of privacy/security-related patches has been applied, we've more features than we planned to have for the next release. Some others are missing though, probably waiting some more weeks makes sense, but it shouldn't take too long.
We got exactly 3 votes in the game tome poll so far, which is discouraging but on the other hand shows that there's lots of work still to be done. Hell, 3 years in the makings and still infantile. But then again there's no alternative to get ideas from (like the desktop environments got from CDE, Windows and others, or Linux got from Unix), so it's acceptable.
Nas ne dogonyat
Of course not.
GForge
Installed 3.0pre8 into my UML at work, and the installation of mailman brought the machine down to its knees. UML users prefer SCSI disks.
It's really convenient that if a partition gets filled up, a new one can be created with dd, mounted, synchronized, unmounted, and then replaces the old one.
Yet I think the advantages of both a database's write-ahead-log and UML's cow devices could be merged so that fast-growing partitions can be shrinked with some new kind of moo tool. This would allow for point-in-time recovery, but the performance would probably go down.
But this is what optimization freaks, like, er, me, really like. There's still room for advanced algorithms, and even today's algos are only halfway implemented. I recently tried to google for MPM networks, the number of results is discouraging.
Kamikaze
First Debian packages built. Now all I'm waiting for is that KDE 3.1 enters unstable.
While others waste their time with watching TV, I was curious to find out how and why search machines direct people to my homepage. Not only did PHPSysInfo reveal the model of my CD burner (which was the search term for 2 people in the first days of January alone), but also pages related to the flood, or games ("stupid americans", when looked up on Yahoo, guides to my XBill mockup ;). Lots of people also look for KDE build documentation. I'm guilty here, haven't been updating that stuff for months.
There are quite a lot of spiders (googlebot, mercator, ...), and none of them gets caught by the WPoison script (or equivalents). Time to remove the perl toys again.
university
...will start again soon. Bleh. I really need to use the remaining days for practical learning, not just reading books.
Nevertheless, I should have had this thought 2 years ago...
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