GUADEC Day 2
The main lessons I’ve taken from the conference so far:
- Developing a “Hello World” XUL app looks fairly straight forward and we can do swish UI in SVG. From the talk by Ian from Songbird
- For profiling memory usage of an application Exmap is the canine testes. Talk by Tomas Frydrych
- Buying an ATi graphics card is bad if you’re using Linux. There have been a number of example of problems with their drivers on speakers’ laptops. In contrast, Intel have people here explaining the cool stuff they are writing for Linux
- Goocanvas looks like it’s quick and easy to use and I’ve been writing some code with it in the gaps here
What I suspect I’ll remember most though is realising I’d slept through a very important phone call from my pregnant wife. The first thing I knew about it was waking up for a second phone call, hours afterwards. Em had been experiencing horrible pain and an ambulance had been called. The doctor thinks it was a trapped nerve and the baby is safe though so it could have been so much worse.