Working for Openismus
Since yesterday, I am part-time employee of Openismus GmbH. Openismus provides custom software development using open source software. I am working five to ten hours a week which fits nice into my time...
View ArticleMy GNOME Account is ready
Today I got a GNOME developer account which I requested December 1st. I guess this took longer than usual, probably also due to the GNOME SVN migration which happend on December 29th. Also thanks to...
View ArticleSpeeding up gtkmm
According to test test application, gtkmm needs significantly more time when default signal handlers and virtual functions are enabled. What gtkmm basically does is creating a new class inheriting from...
View ArticleGlom on maemo
I recently ported glom to the maemo platform for Nokia's internet tablets for Openismus. The major work of this was compiling glom and its dependencies in scratchbox, i.e. make it build and run without...
View ArticleGlom on Windows
After porting Glom to maemo, the next target was Windows. Glom's dependencies are already ported to Windows, so getting it to work wasn't too hard, though some hacks were still necessary to get things...
View Articleautotools on Windows
There are several ways to fix the recent chooser showing no recent files in Glomon Windows, but they are all sort of hacks except one, namely make the recent chooser guess the mime type of an URI on...
View ArticleGlom packaging on Windows
With added support for self-hosting, Glom for Windows now supports all the major features that the Linux version does (apart from Service Publishing, which is probably way more effort since Avahi is...
View ArticleGlom Windows Installer
Here it is, Glom's installer for Windows. Thanks to the opinions on my last blog entry. I set up an all-in-one installer, so Glom should run out of the box after installing (please tell me if not). It...
View ArticleGlom Windows Installer 2
I updated the installer. It now includes jpeg62.dll and python25.dll which were missing (thanks to the reporters on my initial post). I also included the glom and gda python modules. If I do understand...
View ArticleSQLite support in Glom
Over the last few months I implemented SQLite support in Glom for Openismus. When creating a new document, Glom now allows to save the data in a SQLite database instead of a postgresql database. This...
View ArticleTimeline widgets for GTK+
A small Openismus task I recently carried out was to investigate whether there is a generic timeline widget for GTK+ out there, for example to show photos associated with the day they were taken. The...
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