making things suck less

Some recognition for the bugsquad: in the last month, there have been 140 more bugs closed than bugs opened, and I would guess that at least a little bit of that is due to the work that they’ve been doing on triaging Konqueror bugs.
Also, thanks to Andreas Pakulat, for going through the KDevelop wishlist bugs [...]

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blog is back. only managed to lose the last post, since i posted it after i did my backup. oh well. not that important anyways
so far so good with fedora on this box. quite happy about that. more stuff to get copied over and reinstalled tomorrow

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I’m sure some of you will be sad, and a few others very happy, but I don’t really have enough material to do daily blogs anymore. What the dailies did do for me though is to get me into the habit of blogging again, so hopefully I’ll start doing more of that.

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Happy Father’s day to me. It’s my first one.
Off to the pool in the morning. S. seemed to enjoy the water more this time, most likely cause it was warmer.
Lunch, naps for the girls. Dad around in the mid-afternoon with (belated) birthday present. My laptop now has a 250GB drive in it, which [...]

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Up, breakfast, somewhat groggy from falling asleep on the couch while coding.
Poked at various bits of code throughout the day, mostly spent finding way to make better use of what little time i have for coding nowadays. Found a snippets plugin for vim that says it will behave like TextMate snippets, so I’ll be checking [...]

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Filled in for the PMO representative on the all SCRUM meetings today. Will do so again on Monday. We keep notes from the daily standups, so that’s what I did.
Spent the rest of the morning after that looking at an issue that’s currently affecting the field. Found a fix (just configuration) and passed that on [...]

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Lots of meetings at work today, in fact, most of the morning was taken up by them between SCRUMs and an interview with a candidate for one of our Linux Application Developer positions. Poked at source code to try to figure out the various file formats and input/output flows of the project that I’m currently [...]

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Work most of the day. Today is my one year anniversary with Pizza Hut. SCRUMs in the morning. Paired with another developer between SCRUMs and planning meeting in the afternoon. Installed OpenSUSE 10.3 on my pilot test box. Got much farther in getting the software to build, but still some issues to work out.
Started on [...]

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Up and off to work. Poked at our software to try to get it to build on OpenSUSE 11.0. Gave up at the end of the day. That box will get OpenSUSE 10.3 tomorrow. gcc 4.3.1 was just not going to work with our 10+ year old code.
Home in the evening, spent a couple of [...]

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Up and off to work. Demo of NX as a remote support tool for the restaurant helpdesk in the morning. Well received. Spent most of the day working on getting OpenSUSE 11.0 installed on a box that I’m using for a pilot project. We don’t work natively on Linux boxes at work (yet) unless we’re [...]

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