Juri Pakaste: Blog

Oh, and: If you are still experiencing character set troubles (like seeing ** (straw:14064): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()) with Straw 0.24, you should probably try to remove the feed a subscribe to it again.

Some pretty cool shit here.

Running imgsizer on my local copy of the HIG made it so much nicer to read.

Four days off work does wonders.

I've had this problem with random crashes with my new-ish computer which I haven't managed (or bothered) to pinpoint.

We're working on dropping the mxDateTime dependency from Straw for version 0.22.

I bought myself yesterday Jak II.

Spent the christmas in Funchal, Madeira.

I didn't really feel like starting work on Straw's subscription categories today, so I was procrastinating playing freecell.

Argh.

Flew to Lisbon early Friday morning with coworkers, saw some sights, got plenty drunk and afterwards a two day long splitting headache caused by neck pain (luckily painkillers helped at least the first day), ate several servings of absolutely lousy food (…

It's true that users shouldn't have to know how things like the X Window System clipboard/selection mechanism works.

I expect Jarno has heard about this already, but just to nitpick a bit: in X Window System, selecting a piece of text does not normally copy it to the clipboard, despite this being a widely-held belief.

Yow.

As you might have noticed if you follow these things, I actually did something about that Dashboard thing and now the changes to Straw are in CVS.

I used AIX today.

As an excercise in pain, I've been installing quite a bit of software on a old IBM ThinkPad 600 running Windows 2000 today.

Mark Watson proposes a change to the Java language, in the form of making it possible to automatically generate accessor methods for class attributes.

Here's a version of 99 bottles written in GOO.

I just went surfing Sleepycat Software to read some documentation (don't ask me why, I just realized I have it all installed locally), when I noticed this: Berkeley DB XML.

DTML is really arse after two months of ZPT.

A Jupiter study — I'm usually highly sceptical of these, but hey, maybe they're right for once — says businesses are often dissatisfied with their content management solutions.

Coolness.

The asynchronous networking rework of Straw is progressing pretty nicely.

XML, despite still having immense momentum, is not without problems.

Christmas is over; read two books — Dead Air by Iain Banks, a decent book if not among his best, and Red Dog by Louis de Berniéres, a fun and fast read — did a couple of jigsaws with my gf, ate way too much, drank some very nice wines — like Masi Mezzanel…

I have this base64 implementation (both decoding and encoding) in Common Lisp available on my web page.

GtkHTML2 is a sorely undocumented widget.

C#. .NET.

Some of Dale Chihuly's work is on display at Tampere.