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I'm a Gnome Hacker working for Igalia and living in A Coruña, Galiza.

Archive for the 'Planeta Gnome Hispano' Category

New media controls in WebKitGtk+

Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

So it looks like my patch for the rework of the WebKitGtk+ media controls was finally landed. First I would like to thank Igalia for giving me some time to complete this task, which took some work and began at WebKitGtk+ hackfest some time ago with Žan Doberšek and Jon McCann. Starting point was: As [...]

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GUADEC 2012: state of calvaris

Monday, August 6th, 2012

Executive summary Tired as hell but with my hacking batteries completelly full. Organization There was always something to do here and there, which I needed to help with, but I think the most important things that I did were: Organizing the Lightning Talks session, I guess you all remember the sound of the sea and [...]

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GUADEC 2012

Thursday, July 19th, 2012

Wow, something I think I would not see, but GUADEC is happening less than 3km from home in less than a week! I have collaborated in organizing the Lightning Talks and BoFs/Hackfests and of course, I’ll help wherever I can. Poor Zeenix will be at my place so he will need to wake up early [...]

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As part of my work at Igalia I had to work with video and GStreamer for some years. I always used Gtk+ for that so when I needed to do things with Qt and QML, things were different. In my projects I always used pure GStreamer code instead of the Qt bindings for GStreamer because [...]

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Aura

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

As my colleague Víctor at Igalia has said before in his post, Aura was released to the Nokia Store. Miguel, Víctor and I are quite happy with the result achieved with this app, which intention was to be kind of a port of the Cheese application of the GNOME platform to be used in the [...]

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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

. I travel sponsored by Igalia.

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I was writing some tests for a project at Igalia and I need to mock the convert-frame playbin2 element action. The code to invoke it is something like this: GstElement *pipeline = /* get pipeline */; GstCaps *caps = /* create caps to adapt the conversion */; GstBuffer *buffer = NULL; g_signal_emit_by_name (pipeline, “convert-frame”, caps, [...]

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Lightning talk at GUADEC in The Hague

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

After talking about Grilo at GUADEC-ES, I’ll be talking next thursday about MAFWGriloSource in a lightning talk during GUADEC. Both events are sponsored by Igalia.

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Thank Aldon Hynes, who sent me an email with some comments about MafwGriloSource behavior in the N900, I could fix a bug and implement a feature. The bug was a limitation when browsing, as you could only see the first 64 results. It was caused by a problem with indexes when returning the results, as [...]

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GUADEC-ES

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

I’ll be attending this year GUADEC-ES. I missed some of the last editions but I’d deserve my death if I didn’t go when it happens 1km away from home . I have a talk about Grilo so join us if you are interested.

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