Juri Pakaste: Blog

I just released version 0.2 (and 0.2.1, now with a NEWS file!)

I put up pgrok ("Project Grokking for Emacs"), a simple Elisp package for project settings and tools, on Launchpad.

They keep on asking their listeners to plug them, so here goes.

Waking the project up, at least momentarily, from a nine-month slumber, I released version 0.6 of AudioFormat, the friendly audio file format converter for the GNOME desktop.

InfoQ carried an article about dependency injection, with the title "Does Dependency Injection pay off?".

Some time ago I wrote in a SSHMenu related blog posting's comment thread that I found the Gnome panel's menu combined with gnome-terminal's profiles feature sufficient for my SSH needs.

In my neverending quest of avoiding actually getting any of my projects ready, I started playing with Factor.

$sudo -u couchdb /opt/couchdb/bin/couchdb couch 0.7.0a572 (LogLevel=info) CouchDB is starting.

Am I missing something here?

We went to see Cirque du Soleil's show Delirium, now in Helsinki on their tour of Europe, yesterday.

This note is here so I can grep or Google for it the next time I spend ten minutes clicking around the Glade-3 window, trying to remember what the trick was: Glade-3 has put the menu and toolbar editors behind an edit button below the the properties noteb…

So instead of just whining about Nemerle, here's a something potentially useful.

Sunday was a whole lot better at Flow than Friday.

First day of Flow is behind.

I've been coding with Nemerle a bit during the last couple of months.

Add this to your .emacs or equivalent to make Emacs' compilation-mode make proper links out of the Nemerle compiler's error messages: (setq compilation-error-regexp-alist (append compilation-error-regexp-alist '(("^\\(.+\\):\\([0-9]+\\):…

Gaphor is the best free UML tool for X I've seen yet.

The GLib mainloop is what you're probably running in your Python program when you are using PyGTK or GStreamer.

From Rails, or more specifically, ActiveSupport's json.rb: # When +true+, Hash#to_json will omit quoting string or symbol keys # if the keys are valid JavaScript identifiers.

After a longish break, released a new AudioFormat when I noticed how aggravating the current version was :-) The new version, 0.4, allows you to add files to the list of files to convert via a file selector or by dragging.

JUGC is a Java library for unit conversions.

If learning a simple, conceptually mainstream language such as Ruby is too high a price to pay to get away from the madness of Ant and Maven, as it seems to be for some people commenting on Raven, I'm inclined to think you are in the wrong line of work.

Loosely translated, he was talking on the phone: Look, Johanna, I'm sorry, but I've got a dentist on Monday, and Hannu has a time for an ornithologist [...]

Two remarkable pieces of writing in the blogosphere today, both ending up in the instant classics section of their respective categories.

Oh man.

There's now a new version, 0.5, of Caboodle available.

I think this was my first complete (well, not counting the cruft in the home directory) reinstall since Debian 0.93, but now I'm running a fresh Edgy installation.

A bit over a week to us moving (back closer to the center of Helsinki, yay) and my computer's power supply decided it had had enough.

Music management applications don't always do what you want when you convert audio, even if they do support it some way, and nautilus-audio-convert can be a bit of a PITA with all those windows popping up.

Even though I've defected to Eclipse for Java coding[1], and even occasionally use Vim[2], there are times when I flee back to the tender loving embrace of Emacs.

I changed employers last week.

Some former colleagues might think I'm reinventing my own wheel here.

Tomboy meets Leaftag.

Right, so we got the utter turd of a new copyright law.

Two new versions of Caboodle: now it has better level generation logic, it caches level images so the whole thing doesn't get redrawn all the time, it includes a randomize level menu command and an option to display line intersections interactively as you…

So I released 0.1 and 0.2.

Caboodle is a puzzle game.

Whee, my first Gtk+ patch — or at least something not completely unlike it — was accepted.

Ian McDonald's River of Gods is absolutely fantastic, it rocked my world.

Florence is beautiful.

Not that I particularly expect this GNOME language issue to be resolved anytime soon, but still: assuming that the choices are Java and C#, do people actually want to standardise/bless/whatever the language, the runtime standard (that is, "JVM" or "CLR"),…

Lukutoukka is a speed reader for the GNOME desktop.

From Charles Stross, on why British SF is these days teh rawk.

I've lately acquired a habit of using ctrl-backspace when editing text.

So we got married last Saturday.

I recently read some old stuff on Phillip J.

GNOME Launch Box is looking sweet.

We've now lived here for one week, and it's slowly starting to look like home.

Reading Planet GNOME recently, I'm reminded of something a co-worker said while we were in Prague: It didn't take more than the invention of the digital camera to turn this bunch of engineers into Japanese tourists.

Went to Prague last weekend on a company trip.