Wed, 15 Feb 2006
FOSDEM
I'm leaving soon for FOSDEM and getting all my stuff in order. (Unfortunately due to my lame setup I won't be writing any blog entries while I'm away... I really need to fix this. I've been eyeing bluehost, since that is what Elyn uses.)
At FOSDEM I'll be giving a demo on using Eclipse to develop Classpath. Not super deep, but something I'm passionate about. This switch gave me a a major productivity boost, and I think this is something that most Classpath developers can benefit from.
In fact this boost is one reason I'm interested in changing g++ to be better -- moving from the Java world back to the C/C++ world is amazingly painful, and not for any good reason. One way that GCC's relative dominance is a bad thing in that there's no competition to force it to improve quickly. That is, there is competition on the back end from things like icc, but nobody is carrying the flag for developer productivity and front end improvements.
Medi8I've done a little Medi8 hacking lately. I have thumbnails working better and it can now turn its internal model into Westley XML. This means we're a big step closer to, you know, actually doing useful things like playing or exporting the resulting movie.
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