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Tomboy Tagging: A Third Try
Ok, I replaced our original autocomplete system with something a little more reserved, and based on a Gtk.Entry. Stealing heavily from a little-known F-Spot widget, I concocted a simple tagbar. Tab cycles through the completions and Enter selects. To give a rough idea of whats going on I made a quick screencast. Google Vids OGG [...]
Tomboy Hackfest: Part 2
Alright! Some cool news! The Mono Hackfest at the Novell OSTC in Provo, Utah was a success ( I would say, people showed up and we talked about features ) And while I took several photos in the hope that I might have another photo-riffic blog post, but alas, my flash wasn’t on, and they [...]
Tomboy Hackfest Tonight at the Novell OSTC
Well be hacking it up tonight at 6:00PM MST at the Novell Open Source Technology Center. The rough TODO for the night seems to be Tags, Tasks and maybe even a backend to query Beagle. Anyways, if your in the greater Salt Lake City area, come on down! If your a little further away [...]
Major PhotoBlog Catchup!
Ok, so some of you may have noticed I’ve been a little quiet lately, over this time of non-blogging I built up a dozen great ideas for entries, and collected the photos to flesh them out. However, I am far to lazy, so you all get this little summary post instead. Let me apologize upfront, [...]
Mono 1.2.6 Memory Usage
So, I’ve heard a lot of hype about the upcoming 1.2.6 release of Mono being faster, leaner, and more stable then ever before (due largely to Novell’s acquisition of a QA team dedicated to Mono). Beagle has always gotten flack over memory use, and as a result, we are relentless in our hunt for abused [...]
Google Docs Presentations: A Major Disappointment
Google Docs has revolutionized the office suite, namely the word processor. Collaboration is easy, smooth, integrated, and automatic, whats more all your documents are accessible from anywhere, and all the common features I need are present. While I don’t really use spreadsheets very often, my few simple instances of using Google Doc’s for spreadsheets were [...]
Google: How do you do it?
So its not a big surprise that an oft-requested feature for Beagle is the ability to index a users Gmail messages (like Google Desktop Search). Today we (the Beagle developers) started to investigate just how this is done. While POP3 (and now IMAP) are available, downloading all of a users mail, indexing it, and then [...]
How Much I Rely on Class Libraries
Ok, so I was stamping out a recent (quite simple) assignment for a class. The assignment required the separation of each place value in an integer. Since the information came into the program as a string, I stamped out a simple solution using some easy loops and handy methods available in the String class (of [...]
SqlLite Linq Provider
Ok, so as many of you may have noticed in my last post I’ve taken a real interest in C# 3.0 and its new nifty features. Now, I’m mostly just excited for the simple collection manipulations, but the whole Linq to SQL thing is nagging in the back of my mind. Now while complete CRUD [...]
The Changing Face of High-Level Programming
Ok, so I’m sure most MS .Net dev’s have already seen these posts far too many times, for the Mono users out there, I have a little treat. While Moonlight and WPF get tons of hype, I think the biggest and most exciting change coming soon to a C# compiler near you is support for [...]