http://mark.doffman.com Mark Doffmans web log Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:00:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en More than a year ago now Codethink moved to a new location in central Manchester. Its become a comfy home, but I don't think we have ever introduced people. So without further ado here are some pictures of the 'new' Codethink offices. I'll hand out a prize of 20p and a ... http://mark.doffman.com/index.php/2010/04/30/swanky-codethink-offices/ I have spent time on-and-off the past week looking at the performance of the Tracker RDF database. Tracker, I believe, started out as a desktop search tool for Gnome. I never used it in this incarnation, and it has only come to my attention  since version 0.7, when the developers ... http://mark.doffman.com/index.php/2010/04/15/tracker-rdf-database-performance/ As many of you may have heard, from blogs by Eitan, Mike and Joanie, as well as an e-mail to the gnome-foundation-lists by Fernando, the Gnome a11y community is having a tough time. I have been interacting with the a11y community for over two years now, and in that time the ... http://mark.doffman.com/index.php/2010/02/08/funding-gnome-a11y/ Every tech company under the sun seems to be pushing new variants of the computer experience on us at CES this year. Smartbooks, Tablets, E-Readers, Smartphones, Netbooks and Notebooks, by the end of 2010 there will cease to be a segmented computing market and consumers are going to have a ... http://mark.doffman.com/index.php/2010/01/07/will-superphones-make-us-more-productive/ Rob and I took a trip to Grenoble this week for the Embedded Linux Conference Europe meeting. All-in-all a very good couple of days for us. We showed off our research project (daily-catchup) in the demo room on Friday afternoon and got to attend some fantastic talks. Travelling wasn't so ... http://mark.doffman.com/index.php/2009/10/19/codethink-at-elce-2009/ Its been a long time coming, but about a fortnight ago we did the first release of AT-SPI2, the D-Bus port of our Linux accessibility framework. As mentioned in the notes the release had a warning label. 'DANGER: Development release - may cause psychological harm' Overall though I've been very pleased with ... http://mark.doffman.com/index.php/2009/08/22/at-spi2-first-release/ Thank-you to Felix Kaser for pointing out Mark Shuttleworth's interview with derStandard.at. It was an incredibly interesting read. While at the GCDS this year I made many guesses about the Ubuntu opinion on Gnome Shell and the plans for 3.0. They, as the largest distributor of a consumer linux desktop, have the most to lose ... http://mark.doffman.com/index.php/2009/07/14/file-organization-gnome-30/ http://mark.doffman.com/index.php/2009/07/10/28/ Last week I attended a week-long meeting at the Sun offices in Dublin. The purpose of the trip was to hammer out issues with the D-Bus AT-SPI port, so that everyone can feel more confident about its readiness for Gnome 3.0. What a great week we ended up having. I should ... http://mark.doffman.com/index.php/2009/04/29/accessibility-30/ Many thanks to racarr for posting about this earlier today.  I had seen posts on the 'Do-ifying' of GTK but they had passed me by. 'Do-ifying' applications is a fantastic idea. We shouldn't limit ourselves to GTK apps though. The bit that caught my interest was that racarr was thinking of ... http://mark.doffman.com/index.php/2009/02/03/do-ifying-gtk-and-other-applications/