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Controlling GNOME with Leap 9 Aug 2013 | 04:16 pm
When I explained how the Leap Motion device could be used on Fedora 19, I mentioned how I had one of those early prototypes. Well, Leap Motion was extremely kind and sent me an actual device as a than...
Wacom’s fresh button assignment and GUADEC 29 Jul 2013 | 12:37 pm
In what comes to assigning buttons’ functions for the Wacom tablets in GNOME, the approach in the GNOME Control Center was the traditional tree-view: one button’s label per row, allowing to choose the...
Leap Motion on Fedora 19 22 Jul 2013 | 05:24 am
I was one of the fortunate developers who got one of the first Leap Motion development units. Unfortunately the SDK was only available for Windows and Mac OS so, since I couldn’t use it, I started a t...
Skeltrack 0.1.14 released 27 Jun 2013 | 01:35 pm
The first release of Skeltrack in 2013 is out! This is also the first version I release without being associated with Igalia but the company agreed that I keep maintaining the project. That’s one of ...
Two Weeks in Japan, Part 3: Kinosaki Onsen 23 Jun 2013 | 08:56 pm
This article is part of the “Two Weeks in Japan” series and follows Two Weeks in Japan, Part 2: Kyoto. It’s been a while since I wrote the previous article in this series but I’m determined to contin...
Upcoming Wacom Features in GNOME 8 Jun 2013 | 09:46 pm
I had previously mentioned that, as part of my job at Red Hat, I was taking care of the Wacom tablets support in GNOME. To show you a bit of this, straight from the nice Atopia Kaffeehaus in Prenzlaue...
Red Hat’s New Hire Orientation 20 May 2013 | 06:46 pm
A quick post to say that two weeks ago I went to Red Hat‘s New Hire Orientation in Munich. This is an event for (guess what) new hires in order to show how the company operates, etc. with great focus ...
SeriesFinale for BlackBerry 19 May 2013 | 02:51 pm
I would like to share with you this port of SeriesFinale for Blackberry. Unlike the other versions, I was not involved in the development of this one. It was developed by Micke Prag, who also started ...
About the GNOME 3 Application Development book 23 Apr 2013 | 01:38 pm
Yesterday I read Danielle’s review of GNOME 3 Application Development: Beginner’s Guide and I would like to write some comments about it because my name figures in there. I was involved in the book as...
Working for Red Hat 7 Apr 2013 | 06:14 pm
Since last week I have been working for Red Hat! After I started looking for a new job, I had two intense months full of interviews and travelling (I traveled to different countries, including the US ...
