Tomorrow will end my first week as a Ximian employee. So far, I’m feeling pretty useless, having done exactly one productive thing the whole week. I’m sure I’ll get the hang of things eventually, but, you know, I’m impatient.

4th of July is on Friday. My family sort of has standing plans with some friends of ours who live on a lake. So, the girlfriend and I are heading up there tomorrow night. It’s always a great time, and I’m looking forward to it again this year.

Talked with a guy over email about the recent-files spec (he wondered why I was using XML), and then today with Federico on IRC (OO.o stuff). It has been a long time since I touched that code. I need to get it in shape so I don’t miss yet another opportunity to get it in the platform (2.6). Actually, by then maybe I’ll be able to redo it as a set of D-Bus messages instead of specifying the storage mechanism. Seems like it would be far better.

Everyone and their dog is hacking on dashboard. It sounds pretty freaking cool.

I moved into my new apartment yesterday. It was a fairly painless experience all in all. I don’t have any furniture yet (it’s coming this weekend), so that kind of sucks. Sleeping on the floor last night especially sucked.

Today was officially my first day working for Ximian. It went pretty well I think. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get up to speed quickly and start making useful contributions soon. I was able to get a mostly working development version of RCE on my machine today, which was about the only semi-productive thing I did. It’s clear I have a lot to learn, but I’m looking forward to it. Also, my first trip to Boston was arranged today. I’m really looking forward to that too. It’ll be totally cool meeting all the [ex-]gnomies and hopefully getting a good handle on my job.

I have snorp.net now. Hooray. Other than having snorp@snorp.net and this blog, I’m not sure why I really want my own domain. I guess I’ll use the webspace for posting screenshots and stuff, like I did with the IU webspace. Of course, I haven’t updated my blog on Advogato forever so I’ll probably end up ignoring this one too.

So, what’s been happening? I graduated in May. I’m pretty happy about that. I even found a job (!). I was able to land a 10 week contract job the week after I graduated. After I accepted it, though, another job fell in my lap. And not just any job, one at Ximian! I accepted it just when I was planning on leaving for California (the location of the contract job). Luckily, the guy who hired me for the contract was really cool about it (he had told me before that if I found a permanent job, he would have no problem with me bailing). I start at Ximian in a week or so, working on Red Carpet. Red Carpet is very cool, and I’m sure I’ll love working on it. WOO!!

In other news, I have been working on some code which lets users migrate windows to other screens or displays. So, for instance, if you have an app running on another machine you could simply pull it to your current display. A simpler usage might be to move a window between two screens on a non-xinerama multihead machine. I think it’s pretty cool. Nobody has said anything on xdg-list or wm-spec-list when I’ve posted about it, though, so maybe it’s not that cool? Anyway. I need to talk to Owen about it. Maybe he’ll let me put it in gtk+.

I finished the file monitoring system for the school project. It works ok for polling, but the dnotify backend is pretty buggy. If I can find some time to work on it, I think it may be ready in the GNOME 2.6 time frame.

Haven’t done much GNOME hacking generally, which pretty much sucks. I have been totally useless in the 2.4 cycle. I did fix a couple nautilus bugs (Yes Dave, 2 bugs!), so that’s good I guess. Still plenty of bug-fixing time to go, so maybe I’ll get my ass in gear one of these days.

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I started my Linux user with SUSE in 1997, and after a long hiatus in other distributions I’ve been using SUSE again since 2018.