GUADEC!

I had to opt out of GUADEC due to personal reasons. But there are three guys from evolution team Srini (board director ), Akhil and Bharath right now at Gran canaria . You can catch them for any evolution queries

Akhil should love meeting Ara and Eitan and discuss ldtp stuffs!

oneness meditation at oneness temple

Myself and mom were there for the meditation session on 26th and it was extremely nice. The temple now have Air conditioner so we never had to worry about heat. The meditation session included performing some mudras as well. The transportation was good and food arrangements were planned properly. We never had to be in a queue and food also tasted like home food. On the whole, whether to go there for meditation or not, it is a good place to visit for new people.

News -

Oneness meditation has started at oneness temple starting April 26th. People who are interested to meditate or even who wish to visit and see the Asia’s largest pillar-less temple can go there and meditate between morning 10-11 Am or evening 4-5 Pm. If anyone plans to stay there and enjoy the environment for few days, rooms can be booked. AC rooms, normal ones and dormitories are available, contact Ms(or Mrs., I don know ) Kavithaji – 044-65150501 or support@onenessindia.org for specific details .  The meditation sessions are Free, there is no entrance fee. Accommodations obviously would have some maintenance charges.

Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

The last lecture from Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Professor. My cousin thiagu pointed me to a youtube video and asked me to watch it. I just loved watching this video, every moment in this video is filled with fun and insights. The speech is kept very simple for anyone to understand. I felt more attached as my father was also a professor like randy.

I would suggest this one of the MUST watch videos. I have downloaded this video and have it on my disk if someone wants to scp it

Coincidentally am hearing a lot about dreams nowadays, so don blame me

Market share for an opensource software ?

We were asked by one of the members in our company, how much is the market share for the open-source software which we work on,  Evolution. This was the second time, same question appeared when I was present. As Evolution is the default mail client in GNOME and shipped in many major distros like OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian etc., we said it should high enough.

But how does one estimate the market share for an opensource software ? Any statisticians who are putting those data somewhere for some popular softwares like firefox, evolution, banshee, open-office etc. after survey?

accessing websites using embedded mono

I have embedded mono into my app (evolution-mono-providers) where I was trying to authenticate to google calendar. Though I had the certificates imported using mozroots, access to website failed.  But then I was able to authenticate through a standalone mono program.

After some debugging with ankit, posted the query on the mono-devel mailing list. Robert’s quick response helped me solve the issue Calling mono_jit_exec with the assembly compiled as an executable fixes the issue. So one has to call mono_jit_exec for certain defaults to be set correctly in the embedded environment.

Here is the mail thread http://go-mono.com/forums/#nabble-to22617142|a22666273 .

Thanks a lot, ankit and Robert!

GObject skeleton generators

Just searched for the skeleton generators for GObject. Got couple of useful links,

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2003

http://burtonini.com/cgi/gobject.py

Can we mention these links at http://live.gnome.org/DeveloperUtilities ?

oneness webcasts

Just found some webcasts at http://www.onenesswebcasts.org/webcastsarchive/index.html

First GroupWise mailer patch

I just completed my first gw mailer fix for bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480091  this week and got the following comment from Dave,

‘Mark reported that for the first time ever he ran all day on Evolution with Chens latest stability patch.  Please, let’s get that merged into the the build so that it’s available in all future released.  Excellent work.’

It fixes some crashes in folder operations such as refreshing folders/moving mails across folders etc. Such a comment, makes me happy to provide more fixes.

keep dreaming the future

‘It is good to have dreams. In fact to achieve something we must have dreams and when dreams do get shattered know that only a dream got shattered. Go ahead and create fresh dreams. We cannot keep weeping on a lost dream.’

Heard this as an answer for a question in one of the recent oneness programs. These keep me motivated.

banshee – first patch

My first patch to banshee got committed today.  I have been using it for a while.

svn – http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/banshee?view=revision&revision=5126 .