This is the archive for June 2007. Recent posts can be found at the main blog page.
Sunday, June 17, 2007 ★ 17:23 ★ Category Gnome ★ Permanent url
Yay, I’ve just arranged my Guadec 2007 trip. I’ll be traveling with Olav Vitters (bkor). Details:
Note that the website only supports hotel bookings up to 6 nights; I made my 7 day reservation over the phone (see the Etap web page for phone number).

I’m looking forward to attending the conference and meeting all the lovely Gnome people!
Thursday, June 14, 2007 ★ 23:53 ★ Category Photography ★ Permanent url
I should have updated my hackergotchi long time ago… figured it makes sense to do so before attending Guadec.

On the left side my old hackergotchi is shown; the new one is on the right.
That’s right, I have irresistible long hair now! Oh, the tan is just a camera flash/gimp artefact. My skin colour has not changed that much over the last two years…
Friday, June 8, 2007 ★ 13:46 ★ Category Gnome ★ Permanent url
Yay, finding fonts seems to work:

Code in the Gnome Specimen bzr branch.
Update: Included in Gnome Specimen 0.3
Thursday, June 7, 2007 ★ 12:21 ★ Category Gnome ★ Permanent url
Some time ago I registered the Gnome Specimen product in Launchpad, mainly for these reasons:

Today I discovered people are actually using it to file bugs/feature requests, so I decided it would be a good idea to “officially” use it from now on. Here we go:
The first Gnome Specimen bug is already fixed!
(Even though Launchpad is not OSS—no cookie for you—it works pretty well to track bugs and feature requests for another project of mine, the Almost No Effort Web Toolkit, a set of useful and mostly clean and non-obtrusive PHP libraries.)
Monday, June 4, 2007 ★ 14:06 ★ Category Gnome ★ Permanent url
Note: Gnome Specimen 0.3 is available as well.
I proudly present Gnome Specimen 0.2, your favourite tool for previewing and comparing fonts. It has been a while since the initial Gnome Specimen release happened. Since then, development has slowed down a bit… however, Gnome Specimen is still alive!
User-visible changes in this release:

Other changes:
Translation updates (the Gnome community rocks):

Get it while it’s hot! Download Gnome Specimen 0.2 now!
bzr branch that url)There’s a provisionary Debian package as well, thanks to Daniel Holbach of Ubuntu fame. He has also uploaded Gnome Specimen 0.2 to Ubuntu Gutsy, so it is apt-gettable already! In the mean time, Debian and Ubuntu users may just download the file and run dpkg -i gnome-specimen_0.2-0_all.deb (as root) to install it.
Other distros will soon follow I hope… Og Maciel already packaged Gnome Specimen for Foresight Linux.
Saturday, June 2, 2007 ★ 17:12 ★ Category Programming ★ Permanent url
If you want the functionality of which in a Python program, i.e. you want to look up the file system path for a given executable, you may use this simple function:
def which(e): return ([os.path.join(p, e) for p in os.environ['PATH'].split(os.pathsep) if os.path.exists(os.path.join(p, e))] + [None])[0]
The return value is the full path or None if the executable was not found. Easy enough!
Random photo from Crete (August, 2007)
Wouter Bolsterlee, also known as uws, a postmodern geek living in the Netherlands. Read more about me…
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