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(Gst)Discovering Vala

By Arun | Published: January 16, 2010
My exploits at Collabora Multimedia currently involve a brief detour into hacking on Rygel, specifically improving the DLNA profile name guessing. We wanted to use Edward’s work on GstDiscoverer work, and Rygel is written in Vala, so the first thing to do was write Vala bindings for GstDiscoverer. This turned out to be somewhat easier [...]
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GNOME Day @ FOSS.IN/2009

By Arun | Published: December 29, 2009
Yes, yes, I know this post is a tad late, but hey, it’s still the right year. ;) As Srini had announced, Dec 5th was GNOME Day at FOSS.IN this year. We kicked the day off with Shreyas giving a developer’s introduction to GNOME 3.0. This was followed by another well-received talk by Srini on the [...]
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The times they are a-changin’

By Arun | Published: November 21, 2009
Yesterday was my last day at NVidia. I’ve worked with the Embedded Software team there for the last 15 months, specifically on the system software for a Linux based stack that you will see some time next year. I’ve had a great time there, learning new things, and doing everything from tweaking bit-banging I²C implementations [...]
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It’s pronounced Gwahdec

By Arun | Published: July 12, 2009
I’ve been terrible about it, but here’s the big update — I just got back today after spending the last week at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, location of the first co-located GUADEC and aKademy. It’s been amazing, and I don’t know where to start. Let’s try the beginning. The GNOME Foundation has funded a [...]
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