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There was some discussion this week on desktop-devel about turning ‘Assistive technologies’ on by default in Gnome. See Willie Walkers original e-mail. Rob Taylor and I had discussed this previously, and at the time I didn’t have much of an opinion either way. After reading Willie’s e-mail though I was firmly in favor.
However Willie […]
I had the pleasure of attending my first GUADEC last week. I doubt I’ll have a more enjoyable, tiring, embarrassing, or geek-filled time for the rest of the year.
I started the week locked up in my hotel room. Rob Taylor, John Carr and I were desperately trying to finish a demo that did not make […]
Work is starting on the port of the AT-SPI framework to D-Bus. Codethink are, graciously, being funded by Nokia to undertake the work. Mike Gorse is working on the project full time, as part of his work for Novell.
Mike has got alot done and there are some initial D-Bus specifications, as well as alot of […]
It seems that the posts by Mikkel and Daniel were April fools jokes. My sense of humor was broken by about midday so I missed the gag. Next year I will avoid the internet all together on the 1st of April.
A few years ago I had an unpleasant experience with the police over here in the UK. My mum was contacted about a car accident that had taken place in the car park of a fabric store. She had no idea what had taken place, apparently a car had been damaged while someone was maneuvering. […]
I’ve taken part in a couple of phone calls this week, a quick conversation with Michael Meeks and a conference call with the open a11y group. Both about AT-SPI D-bus. There was a week of silence after my initial e-mail to lots of accessibility lists, and after that something of a storm. It was […]
I really enjoy profiling and optimization, mainly for those WTF moments when results pop out the other end. Systems rarely behave the way anyone expects, and I doubt anyone would have expected this:
Wierd D-Bus performance
The graph is showing time taken to pass many many messages of different size fixed arrays over D-Bus and ORBit. At […]
As part of work we (Codethink) are doing for the Mozilla foundation I have been looking, at the performance of D-Bus vs ORBit. Its a well traveled road with Ross Burton, Havoc Pennington and Frank Dunigan all having posted results before. As far as AT-SPI is concerned though its Frank’s results that are quoted on […]