As the release for Compiz 0.9.0 gets closer, now is a good time to let everyone know what I’ve been most involved with: Documenting the API. Until recently, there was no API documentation for Compiz. You really have to admire the amount of time the core developers and others have spent working with a system …
Getting music from the internet is no difficult task, but that’s not quite the same as sharing music. If anyone remembers the post 2000 rise in peer-to-peer (P2P) software, such as Kazaa, Gnutella, and eDonkey, then I think you know what I’m talking about. It was always nice to see what someone else like if …
A while ago I went to add support for the awesome Shutter Project, which makes capturing your desktop and uploading to the FTP or web very quick and elegant. However, they did inform me that their plugin system isn’t ready for prime-time, and it does require some hacking of the original sources to include your plugin …
Today I started working at Gearbox Studios in McMinnville. Starting a new job always feels like a roll of the dice. I haven’t met everyone, but the folks I did meet are professional and kind. They know how to work and focus on getting things done, and it’s not even close to an Office Space nightmare. …
While it might not look pretty, theres been a lot of work done in a very short amount of time on the Pledge Tracker. This is a simple tool that tracks progress about the Tenth Amendment Center Pledge. I’ve added some more filtering options, statistics, and a way to visualize the time data: It could …
I get asked sometimes why I am okay with posting my phone number publicly, as it can invite a offensive and/or prank calls. Firstly, I rarely post my direct phone number and instead usually post a forwarding number, but that’s not that important. So what do I do when someone prank calls me? To be …
There is a bug that crashes Eclipse in the latest versions of Ubuntu right now. It involves one of the most used features: Content Assist. You know, pressing Ctrl+Space to show objects, methods, or variable information quickly. The problem is actually not with Eclipse or Java, but (as usual) some of the native components – …
Ubuntu has been changing some things around with it’s notification icons and GNOME applets. Specifically the volume, power, e-mail and Rhythmbox applets. I could stand for most of that, but don’t mess with my music. My main complaint is that being part of the indicator-applet has broke some things I like, such as quickly showing/hiding …
Believe it or not, links aren’t just to HTTP(s) websites – they are for anything. You can link to FTP sites and file sharing services in the past have supported linking to content on their clouds, such as Magnet. With Ubuntu you can link to a package or application for a user to install from …