Back in January 2011 I wrote a GNOME-Shell extension allowing Gajim users to carry on with their chats using the Empathy infrastructure and UI present in the Shell. For some time the extension was also part of the official gnome-shell-extensions module and then I had to move it to …

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Last week I attended the Web Engines Hackfest. The event was sponsored by Igalia (also hosting the event), Adobe and Collabora.

As usual I spent most of the time working on the WebKitGTK+ GStreamer backend and Sebastian Dröge kindly joined and helped out quite a bit, make sure to read …

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Time for a change! Almost 10 years ago I was starting to hack on a Blog engine with two friends, it was called Alinea and it powered this website for a long time. Back then hacking on your own Blog engine was the pre-requirement to host your blog :) But nowadays …

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So for the 5th time I attended the WebKitGTK+ hackfest and as usual I spent most of the time working on Multimedia-related tasks, well just one this year actually, WebRTC.

I think WebRTC is quite an important HTML5 specification, we all want to get rid of Skype and embrace the …

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I spent Easter in Milan, attending the second official GStreamer hackfest. It has been a productive event and, as always, a pleasure to hang out with some members of the GStreamer core dev team fame :)

I focused on a few GStreamer bugs that were blocking some other WebKit bugs related …

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There has been some media coverage of the hackfest already so I’ll just focus on one area, Multimedia!

I think this fourth edition of the event was the first with so many hackers focusing on Multimedia:

• Xabier and Zan worked on the media controls and finally landed the GStreamer …

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In a previous post I was explaining how the WebAudio GStreamer backend is implemented in WebKit. What was missing was a nice screencast demonstrating the feature in Epiphany. Thankfully the valiant Mario Sanchez took up the challenge and the result is quite nice:

If the youtube embed code doesn’t …

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WebAudio is a JavaScript API for processing and synthesizing audio in web applications. It has been implemented first in Google Chrome and later on in Safari. The intention behind this blog post is to explain how other WebKit ports can support the WebAudio APIs using GStreamer. The WebKit GTK+ port …

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I gave a lightning talk at the Desktop Summit about integrating media lookup features in the Shell. It’s a little experiment I worked on during my Igalia hackfest time. The integration is done via a simple Shell extension that hooks new Grilo based search providers in the Shell.

Here …

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The IM integration in the GNOME3 is interesting, but only for the people using Empathy :) Because my personal preference goes to another client called Gajim I wanted it to fit more in the Shell. To reach this goal I worked on 2 small projects partly during my Igalia hackfest hours …

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