Heh no news since 2007 fall, something went wrong! In fact it was due to holidays, work overload and some unintended days off I had to take. Anyway, sorry about that, let’s move onto EWN #4!

So, since christmas the Elisa team achieved good work, polishing Elisa and Pigment …

During this pre-holiday week the Elisa team has been busy working on the new user-interface…

Florian hunted a bunch of memory leaks in the MVC and Observer/Observable frameworks. He also found some inside Pigment. This will lead us to a lighter (memory wise) Elisa application. Christophe is hidden below …

Welcome to this second edition of the Elisa weekly news :) So what have the Elisa team been up to this week?

Florian and I continued on the new frontend. It is in better shape, more usable, a bit less buggy but still has some memory management issues. The vertical list …

This is the first post on Elisa news, I’ll try to make one per week and cross-post it on the mailing list too. So, what’s going on these days in Elisa world? Let’s see… :)

Florian, Christophe and I are currently working on a new user-interface (yeah yet …

Google has been providing a GData API to Youtube since a few months now, this is quite cool because it allows applications like Totem to access videos stored at Youtube.

So I wrote a little Python wrapper using python-gdata to ease access to that nice API, especially video thumbnails and …

So I attended GUADEC for the second time… Was quite nice, interesting talks about the GNOME desktop, Online, or not. It was also good to see people I often discuss with on IRC, Jabber or by mail :)

The Elisa talk went fine, but afterwards many people kept asking about our …

Being a project developer, maintainer or both is not easy every day when you want to automate some tasks. Ian and Jeff Shell have been blogging about that topic lately.

I agree that some extend distutils can provide some solutions, I never used Ruby’s Rake tool so I won …

In Debian it’s really easy to upgrade to a new version of the distribution:

• replace old distro with new distro in /etc/apt/sources.list
• run apt-get update
• run apt-get dist-upgrade

This used to work fine for me in the past. Now I’m using Ubuntu and I have …

So I was at FOSDEM 2007. Nice conf, many people and interesting talks. I crashed at Thomas’_ place for the week-end, thanks dude :-) Of particular interest:

• OLPC : laptops for children
• OpenMoko : open-source phone
• Metisse : not a 3D desktop!

I wish I could attend to OneTeam and Telepathy talks. Thomas …

I’m more and more using Last.FM these days to find fresh artists, track gigs in the city I live in and find people with similar music tastes as me. The Last.FM webradio streaming service is really nice, but not (yet) well documented. So I digged existing clients …