http://mark.doffman.com Mark Doffmans web log Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:25:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ Congrats Mono A11y Many congratulations to Mono Accessibility, team for getting their first release out into the open.  The Mono A11y team must be one of the largest open-source A11y groups out there and I'm really excited about the work they are doing. WinForms and Moonlight are not yet my ... http://mark.doffman.com/index.php/2008/11/26/gnome-kde-mono-a11y/ I like this meme, its a fantastic window into how depressingly geeky we all are. Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick ... http://mark.doffman.com/index.php/2008/11/13/the-book-meme/