Although I’ve been a happy Blackbox user for a long time, I decided to check out a recent version of Openbox yesterday. While I’m not fully convinced yet, there was one thing I really liked: the split gradients. So I made a little patch to implement the same functionality in blackbox. The result looks like this (also using the text shadow patch I made a long time ago):

Thanks to David Barr who wrote a similar patch for openbox, which I used as a starting point.

So I decided to switch my website to wordpress. I did my best to import the old entries, but some formatting might got lost. This will also allow me to post from one of the gadgets I bought recently…

So I managed to write exactly one blog entry in 2006… I’m pretty confident
though that I can do better this year (where better means “more post” - not
sure if that’s better for anyone ;-)).

New York City, March 2007	|	Sweden, September 2006

Hi there, it’s been a while, and a lot of things happened lately,
including lots of moving. Here’s a quick summary:

• I moved from Bern to Zurich
• I changed jobs, going back to engineering
• I moved website and mail to a new domain

I also revoked my PGP key for the old address, ID 1F93BC8B; please
grab the new one on the right (ID 7E36A6D7).

Last week, we had our second annual CRUX developer meeting. We met in New Bedford, USA, which is close to Boston. During this week, we finalized the merge of the CRUX and CLC projects but also moved most parts of the existing server setups to a new machine. At the same time, we discussed various things and implemented some of them already.

Check out some of the pictures I’ve taken (sorry for the blurry night shots…).

I played around with google’s map api and started a map of CRUX developers; check it out here.

I also added a third comic to my daily comic routing: On the rocks.

I managed to work some more on SiMon, and figured I could upload another screenshot:

Screenshot:

As you might know I’ve joined the conky development team some while ago, and spend some type to write prototyping code for the coming rewrite in C++. After a few iterations of both the conky2 and my prototyping code, the differences were large enough for me to create a separate project, which is called SiMon.

There’s a website for SiMon now, which lists some of the goals and plans for it.

Screenshot:

Might take a while until it’s useable for the masses, but already now an intersting project to work on

I’ve just updated, uploaded and linked my Curriculum Vitae, which - as you might have guessed - means that I started to look around for a new job. I’m looking for a position as software engineer (in C++/C,
Python, Ruby, Perl, Java), preferable on an open source OS. I’m mainly looking for jobs in Zurich right now, even though Bern is still an option. Earliest date to start at a new place is January 2006.

If you happen to know a position which matches the few requirements outlined above, I’d appreciate a quick notification to jw@tks6.net.

P.S.: A PDF Version is available here.

Some time ago, I switched away from gkrellm and started using torsmo to free some space on my desktop. Soon, I made some patches to fix some things which were broken on my setup; unfortunately, the projects
seems to be stalled.

Luckily, Brenden Matthews forked it and created conky , which not only contains a lot of fixes, but also adds lots of new features such as graphs, and SMP support. And finally, my patches found their way upstream. Yesterday now, I joined the development team of conky, after annoying the maintainer with patches for two days :-).