http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br a hacker analysis of life Tue, 20 May 2008 09:08:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I do write C code on a daily basis since 2001 and I don't know why I always believed that free(NULL) would crash, so I always used the painful construction: if (p) ... http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2008/05/20/one-myth-less/ I was invited to come to FOSSCamp this year, and of course I accepted. Travel from São Paulo to Prague was quite long (home to hotel time around 20hs), but it paid off: hotel is great, (un)conference is nice and lots of hackers to talk. It was great to discuss ... http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2008/05/17/fosscamp/ I'm often introducing new developers to Evas, part of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL), and one common problem is to understand how Evas, Smart Objects and Edje integrates. Yesterday, while teaching some guys here at ProFUSION I came to the following picture, that describes it well: Evas exposes just a handful ... http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2008/05/13/evas-smart-objects-and-edje/ The Enlightenment Project DR17, the project known by non releasing any official packages, has now released their first library as "alpha": EET. README says: Eet is a tiny library designed to write an arbitary set of chunks of data to a file and optionally compress each chunk (very much like a zip file) ... http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2008/04/02/enlightenment-dr17-starting-to-release-eet/ You might know that INdT released Youtube plugin as free software, it's great feature-wise and touches almost every part, providing new models, views and controllers, those with complex use cases like threaded models so GUI will not block during HTTP requests and even options menu. That's cool because one can do ... http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2008/03/25/canola-model-plugin-example/ So it's that time of the year again, almost summer in North, winter here in South and Google helping free software projects with its Summer of Code. I'm glad some projects I'm involved were accepted, including: Enlightenment and BlueZ. I'll be a mentor for Enlightenment and we have great ideas, if ... http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2008/03/25/gsoc-enlightenment-and-bluez/ So BossaConference '08 is over, what a great conference! Lots of great people, some are still around, doing some hacking with us at INdT office, it's really great to have some time to discuss new ideas, drink some beers and play jokes ;-) Let's hope next year we can keep it ... http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2008/03/21/bossaconference-08-excellent/ My old website http://www.gustavobarbieri.com.br/ is now dead and points to this blog. It was ugly and hard to keep updated, using wordpress blog is much easier than hand editing HTML and provide lots of useful features, like rss feeds. If you need some of the files hosted there, please use ... http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2008/03/01/old-website-is-now-dead/ So I was helping one Canola2 user to uninstall the old version and for some strange reason apt-get remove libeet0 libevas0 libecore0 libembryo0 libdownloadmanager0 was breaking with "Abort" message. Ok, use dpkg instead, I said, but since we now have split packages for all the libs we use, you'll end ... http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2008/02/02/problem-solving-python-rocks/ After another heavy working week, we managed to deliver a new beta of Canola2, this time with lots of bug fixing (thanks for reporting!), features and optimizations. Also features 770* support, a new tool to merge albums (collections or albums with similar name) and lots of new media formats (wma/wmv ... http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2008/02/01/canola2-beta2-is-out/