Traveling, Planning, Failing

It is almost a week ago that I left Eindhoven to visit Michael and Daniel and since Wednesday I'm back in Eindhoven, the tuesday was spent in Amsterdam and I stayed in a christian hostel (http://www.shelter.nl). I had planned/expected to be in the north (think of Finland, Denmark, Sweden) by this time but I'm somehow stuck at my family in Eindhoven, no idea if I will leave them before OEDEM, if I'm going to manage it to go to London/o-hand for a day or two as I'm somehow really stuck here.

I have been mostly doing janitor work on WebKit/Gtk+, killing the TemporaryLinkStubs.cpp, moving stubs to separate files, finally did the renaming from *Gdk.{h,cpp} to *Gtk.{h,cpp}, started on working drawing comboboxes and popupmenu support. I'm searching for a nice and easy way to bind GObject to JavaScript but it looks like I have to use h2def.py to extract the public methods. In this regard the Qt Object Model is just better as you have access to signals and slots (specially marked methods). So the moc creates are more pleasant experience in contrast to the m4 foobar the gtkmm bindings requires one to do... but I'm drifting away.

I spend most of the day reading books, publications and try to take care of my cousins, their dog and doing other physical work. I quite enjoy that and it helps me to relax.

I congratulate Trolltech for opening up Qtopia and as I have promised back then I will do the Qt4 dance now. I don't know where, how and if some one is going to record it but some people at OEDEM will be forced to see me dancing.

Oh and btw there is Charon a web browser designed for the Neo, go and check that out.

WebKit, GSoC 2007 at an end prototyping

Officially I'm on vacation. The plan is to travel a bit, prepare for at least one exam and hack on a new OpenMoko application. I hope to not really skip the traveling part but it will probably suffer due studying. I will be at least in Eindhoven on the 15th and in Frankfurt on the 16th of September 2007 but with the goal to go north. Hopefully visiting two friends one in Rostock one somewhere in Denmark and then hopefully going further north (e.g. sweden or finland) and return by crossing this one kingdom located on this island and hopefully to meet some old friends in Cambridge.

Currently I'm still in Berlin. As my flat is still rather empty I mostly hang out in the office. To make a difference I'm sitting in a different room with a different pile of books and papers on it. So my thoughts are divided between what to study, reading old GCC summit papers and other compiler related publications and thinking of a new application for OpenMoko. El, my usability master, kindly agreed to give me a hand in designing the interface and work flow and I hope this works out. I have prepared a paper version of the Neo and already wrote some stuff for the main tasks this application should do. I have a list of actions and settings this application has but as the space of the toolbar is rather limited I don't really know what to do with it. Again I hope my usability master has some thoughts and that I'm, the Kode-Knecht, will be able to realize them.

Oh, I will hopefully be able to emulate Aaron and find a copy-shop and people to try the paper prototype...

What does that have to do with WebKit? No idea but as you are clever you will find that out. On a rather funny note Google asks the GSoC2007 students to create a Gmail Account and to upload the code to a code.google.com repository. Sadly they only allow to upload 20MB and my tarball is 105MB.... I have mailed LH and filed a ticket to request more quota...