http://kubasik.net/blog A Place For My Mind to Wander Thu, 29 May 2008 11:19:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, I recently saw some more updates on the Gnome Live wiki regarding the evolution of a 'Semantic Desktop'. I have some bad news people: Its not going to happen. Now before everyone spends 20 minutes explaining all the ways it could, let me clarify my point. It's a largely ... http://kubasik.net/blog/2008/05/21/the-reality-of-semantic-desktops-death-to-tags-labels-and-folders/ So, I think most of the open source world has agreed that the DRCS model fits our working style better than the traditional model pushed by SVN and CVS etc. And in this DRCS world we have rallied around 3 main tools: Bzr, hg, and git. And in an even ... http://kubasik.net/blog/2008/05/19/bazaar-and-its-rockage/ If your in the greater Salt Lake area and love python swing by the meeting this evening! We're doing a python editor head-to-head, should be fun! http://kubasik.net/blog/2008/05/08/utah-python-users-group/ So I noticed that one of the accepted proposals for the Mono project is to create a LINQ provider for SQLite. Major props to this (its something I totally want to see!) and I'm glad to see that LINQ in Mono is going to be its own beast, I love ... http://kubasik.net/blog/2008/05/01/mono-gsoc-projects-linq-to-sqlite/ So, if you live in the greater Salt Lake City area, there's a pretty cool low key (and free!) conference coming up, the Utah Code Camp. I'll be doing a little talk on getting data out of HTML with Python (utilizing lxml and twill). If your interested, you can register ... http://kubasik.net/blog/2008/04/25/speaking-at-ut-code-camp/ So if your like me, you've been suffering through some painful sound problems in Ubuntu Hardy, apparently its a known kernel issue, so just sit tight. However, if your like me (or 90% of nerds) then you need some sort of music to code. A little digging revealed that I ... http://kubasik.net/blog/2008/03/31/sound-problems-in-ubuntu-hardy/ So I just returned from my massive onslaught of travel that started with PyCon, took me from one US coast to the other, a Carribean island, and then back home to Washington D.C. I'm on Spring Break for the rest of the week, and hope to  get some good blog ... http://kubasik.net/blog/2008/03/31/back-from-pycon-break/ So the more I work with Django the more I long for a solid development environment to work in. I use Wingware for much of my python development, with its rockin debugger and code completion, its more than I could ask for. Until the curse of the Java class. ... http://kubasik.net/blog/2008/03/05/can-someone-get-us-a-real-django-ide/ So I just finalized my registration for PyCon and booked my flight! I can't even begin to express my excitement! If anyone else plans on attending, I made a wiki page for you to add your name to! See you there! http://kubasik.net/blog/2008/02/27/pycon-2008/ So I attempted to migrate my blog from Wordpress to Movable Type Open Source. I'll go into specifics later, but suffice to say that it was a miserable failure. Problems with planets, constant admin interface crashes, extremely spamable, and most of all, just unusable. As a result of my reversion back ... http://kubasik.net/blog/2008/02/27/failed-movable-type-experiment/ 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 ... http://kubasik.net/blog/2007/12/14/tomboy-tagging-a-third-try/ 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, ... http://kubasik.net/blog/2007/12/13/tomboy-hackfest-part-2/ 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 ... http://kubasik.net/blog/2007/12/07/tomboy-hackfest-tonight-at-the-novell-ostc/ 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 ... http://kubasik.net/blog/2007/12/05/major-photoblog-catchup/ 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 ... http://kubasik.net/blog/2007/11/16/mono-126-memory-usage/