Flavio Castelli

Last week two new entries entered my life.A shiny brand-new Macbook pro arrived on Thursday. I’ve always dreamed of one of this wonderful laptops (I’ve been an happy iBook user for a long time). Two weeks ago I finally surrendered (I’ve always been scared of the high price) and I’ve ordered this new toy. Now, after one week of usage I’m really happy about it.

Currently I’m using Linux as primary Os, but I’ll give a try also to KDE4 on Mac

The other new entry is Baguette, a three-months old dachshund. She’s really lovely, running around the house eating random things like shoes (I think it’s a must for all pets) and usb cables (she’s already a geek-dog).

I think I’ll have to keep an eye on Baguette, otherwise I’ll find another bite on my Macbook pro apple

Usually I write blog posts announcing what I have done, but this time it is useless. So I’m going to blog about what I’m going to do.
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Just giving more voice to original announce:

Tomorrow, Saturday 12 January, at 17 UTC an irc meeting will take place on #strigi channel (it’s on freenode if you don’t know).
During the meeting Strigi developers will discuss about the future developments of Strigi.
Special guest: Aaron Aseigo.
You’re all welcome.

As you may know, KDE4 will use Strigi for meta information extraction instead of the old KFilePlugin classes.

Since Strigi’s analyzer work in a different way, lot of code has to be ported. Unfortunately, after a good start, some relevant analyzers were still missing.

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Last Monday I submitted lot of changes into Strigi’s trunk. I’ve heavily refactored some classes in order to obtain a more flexible file system notification infrastructure.
Thanks to this work now it will be easier to add support for new file system notification facilities.
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Maybe someone has already experimented this situation:

You’re hacking on your local working copy and you want to keep it up-to-date but, since you have some uncommitted changes, git-svn rebase cannot be executed

I was just thinking to write something about this problem when I read a post on digikam blog.

In this post Marcel proposes a workaround using a bash function. In fact there’s a “cleaner” solution, if you’re interested read the last part of my git-svn howto.

Last Saturday Linux day 2007 took place.

Linux Day is an Italian manifestation that promotes Linux and FOSS.
During this day different organizations (mostly Linux User Groups) arrange events with speeches, installation parties and more.

Since lot of people requested it, I gave a speech about KDE 4 during the Linux day organized by my LUG (BGLug).

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In these days I’ve heard lot of rumors around Git. After reading some manual/tutorial/guide I discovered that it can be really useful, especially if you spend lot of time coding off-line (that’s my situation).

This is a really small howto that describes how to work on a project versioned with svn (maybe taken from KDE repository ) using git.

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As I said in this previous post, Strigi’s Xesam support was half-done since XesamUserSearchLanguage wasn’t yet handled. Well, this is no longer true…
In these weeks I’ve been working on XesamUserSearchLanguage support. Ehm… to be honest, I’ve been fighting with Bison.

But in the end I tamed the beast and now Xesam support in Strigi is full.
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Yesterday morning I was quite arrived at work when Laura (my gf) called me. Something went wrong in our bathroom and water was everywhere. She closed the main water tap and I took the first train for home (yes, since I’m an outlier I take the train two times per day).
Once arrived at home I performed some hacking on the guilty washing machine, checked some pipes and than took the next train for office.

In the end yesterday I spent approximately four hours on the train. During this elapse of time I started the Xesam User Language parser
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