ZHONG GUO REN

This morning, Mike came up with a plan to restructure the NodeSelection / NodeView work I did awhile ago and I spent the early afternoon implementing it. The patch is now attached on bug 69288.

We still have this ongoing issue, though — as Peter pointed out in 50975 a year ago (!), Gtk.NodeStore should implement Gtk.TreeModel (69287).

Mike has been working hard preparing the upgrade to 2.4 bindings. There will probably be a devel release of the Gtk# later today. The NodeSelection / NodeView patch will not make it into today’s release, but I’ll commit it to CVS immediately after the release is out.

The patch will probably need some more loving, particularly the bit that handles the CellRenderer attributes (see TreeNodeValueAttribute.cs). I’m also looking forward to some API review, I think there are definitely some bits that could be better polished.

On another note, my order of new trackpoint caps arrived this morning (Mr. UPS woke me up at 8). Now I’m using the new “soft dome cap” on both my X24 and X31. The new style cap is so much better than the old style.

After reading Don’s blog on Media Center 2005, I went ahead and installed the new Royale / Energy Blue theme on my XP laptop. More and more, I can’t tell my NLD laptop apart from my Windows laptop.

My moment of fame (for 0.5 sec): On the NLD announcement page, if you click on the Gaim Icon (in yellow) and pay attention to the content of the Buddy List, you’ll find me there.

Sigh.

I’ve been doing release and packaging work for Mono for about two years now, yet things are still a bit of a mess:

Mono: Dead on Arrival.

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My summer internship will be ending in two weeks. I’ve been trying to implement System.IO.Compression but haven’t made a lot of progress. I think, if there is one thing I’d like to fix up before the end of this summer, it should be this every continuing packaging and installation mess.

Wish me luck.

I’m here at the office, working on the Mono release. I got in at 10 in the morning, Erik gave me a ride on his Porsche.

We’re all pulling our hair out, working really hard fixing all pending issues. At 1:00pm, the power suddenly went out. The entire Kendell Sq. area. The network equipment has back-up power, so we still have net connections going out, but all our desktops just died. The lights are all off, I turned on my ThinkLight.

It’s so dramatic, it’s just like the movies.

Update #1: Hrm. 1:30pm, power just came back on. Back to work.

Update #2: 2:30pm. Power is out, again. SO MUCH LOVE.

Update #3: 2:50pm. Power is back.

Last update: Erik woke me up at 8:50. We got to work by 10:00. I got home before midnight. At 3:30, I’m going to sleep now. I got this done.

It’s past 2:30 in the morning. I’m still at the office. I’m getting ready to leave though. It’s been a long day.

We will be shipping beta 1 of our product on Tuesday. I just finished putting it together tonight. Tomorrow, we will be testing the packages I put together and make sure there are no major flaws in them. After that, I’ll be making the set of final packages for this beta release. If all goes on schedule, we will meet the beta 1 milestone.

There will be beta 2 next. After that will be the grand finale — Version One Point Oh

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I believe the glory that I will feel when we finally ship 1.0 is worth the amount of time I spend in the office. I hope I am not wrong.

I met David A. Smith and David Reed at XDevConf this afternoon. I got to see a live demostration of Croquet.

This picture to the right is a snap from a movie called Workaholic. I haven’t seen this movie yet.

First day of work. I wanted to wake up early, but ended up getting up at noon.

As I was heading out to work, I saw that I got all these mailings in my mailbox — two Ivy CDs I got cheap from Amazon Marketplace and Greencine also sent me 3 new DVDs.

Had dinner with my faux-Australian co-worker Mike at the Asian food court in Allston tonight. The Bulgogi Bibimbap

was tasty. Their language may sound harsh, but their food is damn tasty.

Started watching So Close after I got home, one of the DVDs I got in the mail. It’s supposed to be pretty good, but I just can’t concentrate: Shu Qi and Zhou Wei, two of the leads in the movie, spoke Mandarin, which makes sense because they’re from Taiwan and Mainland China. Karen Mok, on the other hand, is from Hong Kong, so she spoke Cantonese. If I watch the movie in Cantonese, then I get the horrible Cantonese dubbing when Shu Qi speaks; if I go for Mandarin, then it’s the other way round. I really don’t want to watch it in English, either. Maybe French?

p.s. If my last few postings were an indication of any sort of trend, it looks like I’ll be posting photos of beautiful Asian dark-haired women everytime I write here. Not that doing so is a necessarily bad thing…