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Mr. Sun: Wait Up

2008-07-28T18:52:32+00:00

I've been having problems playing some of the YouTube videos, which "stuttered", as in "paused", for a second here and there usually at the beginning. During "Replay", however, it went smoothly. I went to the YouTube community forum and found out that other people have had the same problems. In any case, this is my latest video (standard; high-quality), which uses Schubert's Symphony No. 4 as the background music:

Mr. Sun: Water Ballet

2008-07-25T12:28:44+00:00

The beauty of YouTube is that you are shown videos related to the one you are watching currently, so you get to view even more videos of similar subject. In this video (standard; high-quality), I use Tchaikovsky's "Spanish Dance" from the ballet "Swan Lake" for the soundtrack, and, sure enough, dozens of videos of "Swan Lake" stage performances show up in the "Related Videos" column on the YouTube page of "Water Ballet":

Kevin Turner: leftovers from Sunday's potluck

2008-07-24T02:25:02+00:00

Hi Internet,

I am going to be at FOSSCoach at OSCON on Thursday the 24th. I'll have little to no email or IRC connectivity, but I'll likely be findable in room E143 or E144. I hope to be coaching people on Open Source skills. Or be coached. See some of you there?

Federico Mena-Quintero: Wed 2008/Jul/23

2008-07-24T00:03:00+00:00

I'm writing a little utility that generates Git repositories from some unpleasantly-formatted data. The test suite for this was really simple to write: you can simply ask git, "give me the SHA-1 hash that you have for the content" at the end of the test run (i.e. "git-cat-file -p HEAD" and parse out the "tree" hash from there). If the obtained hash matches your expected hash, then you know the test succeeded. This is much easier than comparing all of the expected/obtained content by hand.

Federico Mena-Quintero: Tue 2008/Jul/22

2008-07-22T17:19:00+00:00

Document-centric GNOME

Here is my presentation from GUADEC: Document-centric GNOME (ODP).

The code for document-centric Nautilus consists of the journal view and the Nautilus extension interface for journal providers. This code is not finished yet (nothing gets displayed to the screen; it's all engine code), but you can take a look here:
```
git clone git://gitorious.org/nautilus/mainline.git nautilus-document-centric
```
The master branch contains the document-centric code, which is built on top of nautilus-2.22.2. You can also visit the Gitorious repository for document-centric Nautilus and create your forks there.
John Anderson has posted a great little tutorial on Nautilus tips and tricks. Life-savers for me: the list of keyboard shortcuts and enabling the "advanced permissions" view.