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Pissed of SourceForge

Let’s cut a long story short: On August 23rd, I wrote an E-Mail to the SourceForge-Support: Dear Sir or Madam, some years (now already ago, I registred on SourceForge.net (Username: devilx) and uploaded some OpenSource-Projects of mine. After a while, … Continue reading

Lickable New Dwarf?

Today a colleague of mine told me about a new OSS-project within the community around GNOME, called “GNOME Shell”. GNOME Shell is… err… well, let’s just use the developer’s words: The GNOME Shell redefines user interactions with the GNOME desktop. … Continue reading

OpenSource needs Quality – not Quantity!

I was just stumbling through art.gnome.org, after reading the “What’s new?“-page of GNOME 2.26 and I was wondering why the control themes I’ve submitted some years ago are still on page two of seven. I remembered the time, in which … Continue reading

Ubuntu copying iTunes?

Hm… I can recognize some similarities there. (and yes, installed Ubuntu 8.10 on VMware Fusion. Now I’m just building the VMware Tools for the Guest.)

My first Dashboard Widget

So, I’ve just played around a bit with Dashcode, Apple’s IDE for Dashboard-Widget development, and I have to say that it’s pretty cool. It’s quite easy to use and provides excellent WYSIWYG features. I just started a default RSS-Reader project … Continue reading