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Poor review with heartwarming community response

Whoa, been quite a long time since I’ve blogged last time now and the longer it’s been, I’ve felt that I’ve needed to come up with something of more interest to blog about once I finally do some blogging again… ;) Well, I read this poor review of Mandriva Linux 2010 (the only poor review I’ve [ READ MORE ]

Desperately looking for a job

A couple of weeks ago I broke up with my girlfriend over four years.. Considering that I'm unemployed student, she'll be moving out soon and that I don't get any scolarship for the summer, this leaves me in a pretty desperate situation. So these days I'm looking for a job, but the job marked isn't all that great right now, I've spent today applying for several jobs, but not much promising nor interesting so far.. I figure that I might as well announce my search here as well in hope of someone picking it up and offering me some cool (or at least not too crappy;) job after reading it. :D So short about me, I'm at the end of my master degree in computer science with only my master thesis left to complete (thus no other courses occupying my time, leaving me available for near full time employment) and I've been heavily involved in the development of Mandriva Linux (in about every aspect at various stages) since 2001 and several other free software projects since. My favourite programming languages are C, C++ and Python, I'm also experienced with Assembly, Java, PHP and Perl. (Some of the projects I'm currently involved in might give some idea about my background and fields of interest.) While I'm preferably looking for a local job, I'm open for remote jobs as well, so feel free to get in touch wherever you might be if you have a possible job available for me. :D I'm also maintaing a LinkedIn profile for anyone who'd like to see, feel free to connect, for anyone who'd like I'd be happy to provide you with a more complete CV, grades and any other info you'd like as well. So if you're a hot chick eager to pay my rent or a potential new employer, be cool and send me a mail![ READ MORE ]

Interviewed by MAGNUM

The french Mandriva Linux community magazine MAGNUM has just published their 06 issue where they’ve started a series of interviews with open source developers, and at the end of last year I had the honour of being their first to interview for this. :) The interview were conducted by mail, and since I was running late, [ READ MORE ]

PylibLZMA 0.5.2 & some Gdium / mips cooker work

I’ve had it lying around without no changes taking place for almost a month now, so I figured that I’d just go on and release pyliblzma 0.5.2 as I never updated the cooker package to 0.5.1 (which fixes some nasty bugs) because I was planning on releasing 0.5.2 right away anyways.. I never got that far [ READ MORE ]

post-FOSDEM

It’s been over a week since I got back from FOSDEM, so about time I should blog a bit about it. :) So coming back from FOSDEM last year I was a bit disappointed about Mandriva presence, this year we had our own booth at least and I must say that it was quite succesful! :) I hung [ READ MORE ]

My new Gdium

I just returned to my hotel room from the FOSDEM Beer Event with my new Gdium which Patrick brought me, it looks very sweet and all, but when after spending a couple of minutes trying to plug it in the eletrical outlet I realised it was for US outlets. :( D’oh! I hope I’ll get the [ READ MORE ]

Leaving for FOSDEM

I’ll be arriving in Brussels as early as 9:55 in the morning, if anyone wants to help me kill time before the Beer Fest, feel free to give me a call at +47 41681061. :D [ READ MORE ]

pyliblzma 0.5.0 released & FOSDEM Mandriva stand

I’ve finally gotten around to spend some time on updating pyliblzma with xz support and some other improvements and a lot of fixes and cleanups. I ended up spending way more time on this than I was expecting since it was quite a while since I last time messed around with the code or even the python C [ READ MORE ]

FOSDEM attendance & some Doon Lunacy

Despite not really having any money to afford it, I finally got around to buying a plane ticket for Brussels a couple days ago, so I'll be attending FOSDEM this year as well. My new years resolution for this year is to get out more, so I figured that I could charge the whole thing to my credit card with good conscience (I just love to make up excuses that I can even make myself find valid;). :D There also showed someone up on irc with the interest contributing to my totally free and improved clone of the Dune 2 engine (which in contrast to all the other clones out there is totally free of copyright violations as well!) Doon Lunacy yesterday, so I got around to doing some work on it again after not having touched it since the summer. First thing I started with now was to migrate our libeastwood library (which does the reading of the native game data) and doonlunacy from scons to cmake to make it easier to deal with for myself and others, this turned out to take more time than I expected, but it also was a very nice occation to actually get to really learn cmake, now I'm growing more fond of it than I used to be. :) Most parts of the game should be in place (ie. here's a screenshot of the menu gui, notice that's it's drawn in memory from the original game data, no modified graphics shipped at all! :D), although the most fun and important part is left though - gameplay! Maybe 2009 will be the year where I'll finally get a playable release of the new branch done, when it does it'll be sure to hit cooker before any places else! I'll look forward to met all you sexy cooker people again at FOSDEM and also those other sexy, non-cooker people out there as well! Cya at FOSDEM soon![ READ MORE ]

xz (formerly known as lzma utils) has gone beta!

As Lasse Collin, the author of xz & liblzma promised, xz went beta before the end of the year and he release the first beta a few hours before midnight. This means that the API is now final and that the format is stable and ready for use! This is great news as this new format, library [ READ MORE ]