One consequence of the NULL historical memory our trade has is that we get to see Worse is Better replayed from time to time. I’ve seen it on languages, editors, kernels, windowing systems…
This time it’s distributed version control systems, with discussions flaring up the Internet to decide which shall be The One DVCS to Rule […]
Dear people making announcements, specially on planets:
Please provide a small description of what the project does or at least a link to the main page. “Text Editor” is easy to understand, but many project names are not. What does PiTiVi do, and why is the Simple Timeline gone? What’s a gbrainy and why is it […]
Adobe just released a beta of Flash Player 10. I’ve tested it with both Gtk and Qt ports of latest WebKit, r33487, compiled in release mode on Ubuntu 7.10 x86. On both versions, Flash 10 crashes when closing a window with SWF content or navigating away from it.
I hope Adobe developers will repeat these tests, […]
After doing those 3D demos, I was tasked with porting Rodney Dawes’ work on NPAPI plugins for WebKit/Gtk to QtWebKit. It wasn’t that easy as many plugins assume they’re being loaded by Mozilla, and some depend on Gtk or XPCOM being present. But after a few weeks of work and a lot of help, I […]