Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

Boudewin, of Krita fame, Investigate Imaging Libraries for free software. Some interesting reading.

I started directly with day 2 as I arrived Sunday in Dublin.

London-Heathrow aiport is definitely an airport to be avoided: very long lines to get you connection, going through security, etc. I envisionned much worse than it was, like being required to check-in my backpack (that contains only camera and laptop).

Trinity College is still like it was back in 2003 when I was at Guadec.

I attended the presentation by Kitware about CMake and Dart. CMake is a replacement to Automake that KDE now use for KDE4. I must say that I'm somewhat impressed: from scratch it took me 30 minutes to make a CMake build system for libopenraw (don't look for it yet, it is in my local bzr branch). Dart is a system that provide a view of the state of your project: how it builds (tinderbox), how it runs its tests, etc. I think both would make sense for AbiWord: we need to have one cross-platform build system (we currently have 3: automake, plain make for win32, xcode-based for Mac^[1]), and we need to have a better vision of the current state of the code (we used to have a tinderbox running at one point).

I'll be at aKademy 2006 in Dublin, Ireland, starting Sunday, until Thursday. Thanks to the generous conference sponsors to allow me to attend ODF Day.

If you want to meet me, let me know.

... until it deleted my INBOX.

Too bad, it had a real bunch of promissing features, including a working filtering system, but in 13 years, this is the first client the irrevocably delete all my email. I should have suspected that its IMAP implementation was broken by design.

Back to Thunderbird which still suck less than Outl^wEvolution.

Bug filed