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{ Monthly Archives } November 2008

Gnome Zeitgeist status

A lot has been done on Gnome Zeitgeist lately. To sum up Zeitgeist now uses a sqlite database to store: Name, URI, Type, Timestamp, Count, Last usage.
This means all provides write their data into a datasink which forwards them to a DB. When an amount of items are asked for the datasink collects them …

Gnome Jounrnal Update #8

So I managed to do some quick updates! Frequently used is now supported wohoo! I am keeping the post small and wil lget into detaisl later !

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Gnome Jounrnal Update #7

Natan Yellin and I have been organizing a lot in the code. Natan stumbled up on SpiffGtkWidgets and managed to integrate it into the code. Although the display is amazing its pretty slow. Thus Natan and I decided to hack on it and upload our patches :) .

A couple of new features will be added …

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So computer is masculine ?

A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.

‘House’ for instance, is feminine: ‘la casa.’ ‘Pencil,’ however, is masculine: ‘el lapiz.’

A student asked, ‘What gender is ‘computer’?’

Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, …

Gnome Journal Update #6

I managed to get Firefox history at last. After some issues with SQLite locks, copying the places.sqlite and work on it was the solution. Still it takes too long to display them!The good thing about the code is that both UI and engine are seperated. Another cool thing is now automatically when one writes …

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Gnome Journal Update #5

I assume this is update 5 thus #5

So the filters are working pretty well! All functional and every dataprovider will be automatically included into the filters list. I still have to work on the refreshing view thingie but all in all pretty stable. The issue concerning me is that when to much data is …

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Implementing a Gnome Journal/Timeline Filter

As the topic says, I am working on a filter to filter in/out mimetypes into the timeline! As for now I took out Pidgin an bookmarking so i could improve the speed and memory consumption! They will be built back in soon.

I just noticed gnomejournal.org, thus I think the project needs a new name/codename… …

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Some new updates from the Gnome Journal Prototype

After a long day of studying, watchign series, hacking and lindy hoping, I thought it would be appropriate to tell the world (whoever is interested) about the new updates on the Gnome Journal Prototype.
I managed to get some academic and managment bacjup from my former boss and still current mentor Thorsten Prante. To do …

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