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MJHammel’s Projects

I completed the port of the Graphics Muse Tools to GIMP 2.2.3 and GTK+ 2.6. The former required only a few minor changes to the use of layer and image menus (primarily) while the latter was more involved. Fortunately, most of this involved changing things like gtk_signal_connect to g_signal_connect. And […]

GIMP, porting, and XSane

Thu February 24, 2005 in Art and Graphics / Linux / Software Development tagged GIMP / graphics / GTK+ / ximba (updated 7372 days ago)

I’ve finished XNotesPlus 3.7.0, which is the last in the GTK+ 1.2 line of releases. I’ve posted the release and updated the web site but haven’t announced it on Freshmeat. I guess I should do that soon. The next step for XNotesPlus is to port it to GTK+ 2.x. This […]

On porting…

Fri January 28, 2005 in Linux / Software Development tagged GIMP / graphics / GTK+ / xnotesplus

Since mylast entry RLXTechnologies has folded, leaving me (yet again) on the job hunt. They aren’t actually shut down but they cut 80% of the staff. The hardware guys up in Portland got picked up by Intel, so I’ve been told. I’m not sure how manyfrom my group are left […]

As the stomach churns…

Thu January 13, 2005 in General / Linux / Software Development tagged dell / epia / graphics / holiday / intel / Linux / linux format / mysql / MythTV / Open Source / Writing (updated 7413 days ago)

This past weekend marked the official start of the holiday season in the US. We call it Thanksgiving but it’s really just a 4 day weekend to prep for the craziness of the end-of-year festivities. My family celebrated with dual Thanksgiving dinners – one on Thursday with my inlaws and […]

Holidays and projects

Sun November 28, 2004 in General / Linux / Software Development / Writing tagged GIMP / graphics / holiday / Linux / rpm / ximba / xnotesplus (updated 7459 days ago)

I found some minor one-off bugs in xn-todos.c last night and fixed them. I also had to do a uniqueness test on the XNotes categories I pulled from the note fields. But after that the program worked as expected. I tried it integrated with XNotesPlus’ Pilot Manager and it worked […]

Category edit support complete

Thu November 25, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged xnotesplus

Well, it’s not actually hell but it is more work than you might expect. When I recently tried to build GIMP 2.0 I found that the configure script said I needed fontconfig v2.x, whereas my RH9 system has fontconfig 1.x. After waiting around while the fontconfig host site (freedesktop.org) was […]

GIMP 2.0 building and dependency hell

Tue November 23, 2004 in Art and Graphics / Linux / Software Development tagged Fedora / GIMP / rpm (updated 7464 days ago)

I’ve fixed the read_file() bugs so now xn-todos will correctly stuff Todos with unknown categories into Unfiled and stash an XML tag with the XNotes category in the Notes field. This works well on the outbound data. Now I have to muck with the inbound data. And therein lies a […]

xn-todos: write_file() issues with categories

Sun November 21, 2004 in Linux / Software Development (updated 7465 days ago)

I finally got a chance to test the changes to xn-todos. Somehow they’ve broken something. I get a segfault on todos.description in the read_file() function, line 487. I may look at this at work, but I can’t test it till I get home.

xn-todos broken

Fri November 19, 2004 in Linux / Software Development (updated 7468 days ago)

The generic.c module has been udpated to process menu bars along with button bars. It’s now in use with the CVS version of the Todo Manager. The Todo Manager also now has the Category Editor enabled. The editor can modify the categories for the current manager (only Todos are using […]

XNotesPlus – modifying categories

Mon November 15, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged xnotesplus

Iâ€™ve been looking for something like â€œlargestâ€ for some time now. â€œLargestâ€ was a command line tool, for Solaris I believe, that would tell you which were the top 10 largest files on a system. I could easily write a tool like that but I knew someone would have already […]

Cool Tool of the Day: Filelight

Wed November 10, 2004 in General / Software Development tagged Wordpress / ximba (updated 7477 days ago)

Chocolate Fountain Creations is now online. This is the web site I rewrote for a client of my wife’s. The original site was down with some template generator and looked awful. It simply wasn’t designed with the clients product focus or intended audience in mind. It took about 8 hours […]

One project down…

Mon November 08, 2004 in Art and Graphics / Software Development (updated 7479 days ago)

I’m setting up a section on XEUS to post source and examples from articles I write for magazines. I wanted to make it somewhat automated so I didn’t have to regen pages for each article. I just wanted to drop a tarball in someplace and let my system take care […]

Mod Rewrite rules

Mon November 08, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged Writing (updated 7479 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…