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- Up early, off to work with J' they have power and internet at CAF; great.
- More applied at-spi fixage; turned on reference tracking and started tackling the swathe of reference issues, some by binary chop, others by code reading. Made it so the registry didn't have to be killed each time you ran the test app, etc. etc.
- Very pleased to see that Jason Hildebrand has hacked up gnome-vim a VIM bonobo component - so die hard VIM users can use evolution with ease and joy - very cool, and a nice demo of bonobo's capabilities.
- Updated at-spi with Bill's changes - he also did the large sed of 'boolean->SPIBoolean' that I suggested but named slightly differently; sigh.
- Found the stupid bug stopping the Nautilus buttons re-rendering, a chaining error in expose_event. Noticed that some very daft bonobo_activation queries were causing lots of data to fly around on new windows etc.
- Got mail from a chap using ORBit under VxWorks on an embedded PowerPC realtime system - wow :-) a most interesting usage.
- It seems we released Evolution 1.0 today which is great - after a huge development effort, with so many people, the worlds best collaberation whatnot is released. Also, announced the Exchange server plugin. Amazing that when you give people the fruit of a vast investment totaly free, they still look the gift horse in the mouth - and object to us charging corporations ( who have already bought Exchange ) - for their foolishness. Wow, if they want to use standard and open protocols then they can have a fully free system; if not - they get to pay us for the pleasure.
- Got about 10 'broken pipe' errors on committing to at-spi, looks like the longer the commit message the higher the likelihood of error; hmm.
- Sent a large at-spi patch off to Bill and committed to the 'fixups2' branch, with a plea not to try and merge again. Got onto looking into some intriguing ORBit2 string marshaling issue on Solaris, added a regression test for something that might be the problem - to no avail.
- Met J' at the station, and back home - still no power; another romantic candlelit dinner - with warm wine and yoghurts; hmm. Bed early - again, packed all my stuff into various suitcases, and a fair bit of J's stuff too.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com) 