News

Well, today we released EWL 0.5.3, as its been 13 months since the last release.  According to my best estimates, 53241 lines of code were changed, and that isn’t including the massive formatting change that dj2 committed.  In addition, there were 85 bugs fixed.  Here is the release announcement:

I'm pleased to announce the release of EWL version 0.5.3. This release
has some extensive changes, including the following highlights:
       * Version 0.5.3:
         - Fixed compile warnings on 64-bit systems
         - Improved entry selection and cursor handling
         - A variety of bug fixes and type corrections
         - Formatting improvements
         - Normalized widget realize/unrealize and show/hide
         - Cleaned out private headers to reduce build times
         - Rewrite of paned widget
         - Addition of constructor unit tests
         - 'Create Directory' button added to filepicker
         - Kinetic scrolling added to the scrollpane
         - Stop building unneeded static libraries to reduce build time
         - The ewl_password widget is now part of ewl_entry to reduce code duplication
         - Various feature additions to the filepicker family of widgets
         - Better robustness of ewl_progressbar widget
         - Split flags into attributes of the ewl_object and ewl_widget objects
         - Internal XDND support
         - Improved MVC selection handling
         - Addition of a SHRINKABLE fill policy
         - Improved container behaviour
         - Keybinding support for the ewl_text widget
         - Addition of an ewl_icondialog widget
         - Improvement of model terminology
         - Add an UNMANAGED flag to improve container behaviour
         - EWL is now Evilized!
         - Addition of a alpha channel slider to the ewl_colorpicker widget
         - Autofoo improvements
         - Expanded support for config key removal
         - General window management hint improvements
         - Improved robustness of the ewl_grid widget
         - Improved widget signal handling
         - Use merged software X11 engine
         - Various code cleanups thanks to LLVM static analysis
         - Removal of original ewl_tree, rename ewl_tree2 to ewl_tree
         - Moved tutorials from the test files to seperate directory
         - Creation of coverage report with gcov and lcov is now supported
         - Addition of ewl_freebox_mvc widget
         - ewl_embed now inherits from ewl_cell instead of ewl_overlay
         - Expanding of the ewl_tree widget API
         - Various fixes and feature additions for the ewl_text widget
         - Allow the ewl_label widget to be trunctated with '...'
         - Improved the cosmetics of the debugging macros
         - Revamped ewl_combo MVC API and implementation
         - Split widget tests into GUI and unit test cases
         - Fixed widget reparenting

Thank you to the following contributors for making this release possible:

        Peter Wehrfritz
        Jaime Thomas
        Teodor Petrov
        Dan Sinclair
        Vincent Torri
        Stephen Houston

This release can be checked out from:
        http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/tags/ewl/ewl-0.5.3/

Of course, Nathan Ingersoll should also get some credit for this release, seeing as he is the main author and did the actual releasing.

On a completely unrelated note, I’ve just finished moving into my house in Kanata.  I’ll be starting work tomorrow, but getting to work is a bit of a pain with the transit strike.  I’ll take a cab tomorrow morning, and hope that someone there is nice enough to offer me a ride home.  I guess I’ll see how that goes.

Update

Its been a while, since I’ve written on here, so I guess its time for an update.  First off, I finally got a co-op job for this winter, at COM DEV International as a software developer.  I’ll be working on control systems for some parts of the James Webb Space Telescope (replacement for the Hubble Telescope), which is the best job I could hope for (although the ones for Xandros looked pretty cool as well).  I even need security clearance for it!  Anyways, I’ll be moving to Ottawa in a while for the co-op, and although its not Europe its still somewhere more interesting than here.

On an unrelated note, I’ve very slowly been working on ECDB.  I think that I have the erasing part working the way I’m happy with, although I haven’t tested it yet (don’t have an eraseable disc).  I need to ask pygi about how to simulate this.  Anyways, heres a screenshot (there is actually no EWL being used in this picture – all edje and embryo):

Procrastination at Job Time

The past week was pretty terrible.  My computer crashed over the weekend, so I was trying to get that working again, and then I ended up procrastinating way too much with my homework.  I ended up doing calculus until 1 in the morning a couple days in a row, and then was up late again last night with a communications report.  Anyways, I guess thats over now.

One of the highly touted aspects of my university is the co-op program, and its job application time.  I’m sure its a great system for later-year students, but for us 4-stream first years its a pain.  Since we have only two months schooling by the time applications roll around (with absolutely nothing practical), we are reduced to jobs like Assistant Computer Administrator, where one of our main tasks is to compile “a repository of documentation”.  While the vast majority really suck, I did apply for some interesting jobs.  AMD had a position for working on the Linux drivers for ATI cards, but I’ve already been turned down for that (it was a senior position).  Most of the other jobs I applied to were more in the computer science category, but whatever.

On a somewhat related topic, I’ve joined the robotics team.  The first project for all first years is to fabricate a mini-sumo bot, which is apparently pretty easy.  I’ve also joined a more advanced project that plans to build a mars rover to compete in competitions somewhere around Ontario.  In conclusion, I have to hand in a report now.