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async gio test
In order to understand how to use the asynchronous API of gio, I have cooked a small test. It was a little hard to figure out the use of the API, mostly because I could not find implementations using Google’s codesearch, neither doing grand-greps ™ on my jhbuild’s directory of checkouts.
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Programming tips: Google's codesearch
Let’s face it: every programmer loves the “copy&paste” when he is prototyping a solution, learning how to use a new library or just needs a quick fix, and why not?
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summer hack
I have wrote a Rhythmbox plugin for playing mp3 streams from goear.com. It searches, requests several pages on demand, fill the metadata when the stream begins and sorts the search results.
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devhelp and jhbuild
When I started to use jhbuild I resolved to not compile a whole new Gnome desktop because my work laptop is too slow and freeze easily: I had to reduce the dependencies at minimum and try reuse the libraries already provided by my distro (Ubuntu by the way).
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Guadec 2008
Last week I attended the Guadec 2008 in Turkey. It was my second Guadec. The first one was in Sevilla in 2002, when I was backpacking Europe. The big difference between my previous and this last guadec is that now I have a better understanding of the state of the art, so I could appreciate more the talks and proposals done, which I will try to summarize in this post.