There are two things I'd like to see implemented in the industrial engine. As it stands it is pretty much impossible to tell what entry widget has focus if you don't count the blinking of the cursor which depending on your settings can be pretty hard.

The other thing is rather cosmetic. I wouldn't mind giving more visual clue on what tab is currently selected by adding the selection tripe, similar to what XP does.

Oh and once Industrial is in gnome-themes, I'd love to see the sodipodi ruler bug squashed. Pwetty pwueese!

In the last few months, Tambet and I have been working on the successor to rcd called zmd (ZENworks Management Daemon). It is written in C#. I did not choose the name.

Things are going pretty well, and a lot of stuff is starting to work. We have an xmlrpc compatability layer for implementing the old rcd methods (just enough to make the old GUI work), and a remoting layer for the new clients. The xmlrpc stuff is pretty much complete, and you can use the old rug/red-carpet apps with it to install packages, etc. Also we’re writing a new ‘rug’ in C#. You can see it in action here. In that shot, it’s installing some stuff from the ‘funktronics’ aptrpm repository.

I don’t have any code to share yet, but hopefully that will happen soon.

A month or two ago I was watching a (bogus) documentary about M. Night Shyamalan. This was the first time I’d ever seen what he looked like, and immediately, I realized something. I think maybe my boss is making blockbuster movies on the side. Here is my proof:

Tell me those are different people. Seriously.

So, we finally got some wedding photos back. I think this one is nice :)

I really wish they would stop saying things like this:

Red Hat’s software technology is 100 percent open source. If you want to put us in a box, then the most obvious box is that Red Hat only, exclusively sells and supports open source — GPL’d software.

…

Quite frankly, if tomorrow we decided to release a closed piece of software, literally half the engineers would quit on principal that day.

That’s Paul Salazar, European Marketing Director for Red Hat. Can someone please mail me an URL to the source code for Satellite?

I hate Todd.

Kris “released” his whir2il code today. I haven’t tried it yet, but the results he has had with it so far are very promising. PInvoke is great and all, but being able to actually compile existing C/C++ code to bytecode is just so freaking sweet.

I moved today. It went pretty well. Amy and her parents helped out a lot so that was good. Rupert is back online so that made people happy.

A guy (Darren Brierton) has been mailing me lately about rcd on fc2, and eventually he told me he wanted to get rcd into fedora. He totally rules.

9 days till wedding :)

Update: I committed mono bindings for libredcarpet to CVS this week. Ph33r.

I totally wanted to go to GUADEC, but couldn’t for various reasons (time and money, mostly). It was almost like being there, though, when I was able to make fun of Dave during his talk by proxy. Seriously. I think next year each room should have a projector showing a moderated IRC channel where people can ask questions.

Work has been going well lately, finally getting back into the groove after being pulled in different directions for a while.

Wedding plans are progressing, invitations went out last week. Really starting to hit home now :)

There is this intersection near my apartment where quite frequently there will be someone begging for money or something. Usually they have a cardboard sign with stuff like “hungry need food” on it. Now, I’m all in favor of helping people if they really need it, but today there was a guy LISTENING TO A GOD DAMN IPOD WHILE BEGGING FOR CASH. Sigh.

So, I committed my yum support to rcd today. It rules. Snapshot builds will have them soon (tomorrow morning I guess). You can simply subscribe to the ‘rcd-snaps’ channel and do a ‘rug up’ to get it. The yum support works a lot like the apt support, so you need to use something like open-carpet.org to get access to yum repos. If people have some they would like to see in open-carpet.org, mail me and I’ll add it.

I also committed some performance improvements that will help a lot if you’re using a large package repository like open-carpet.org. Yay.