Hey Everyone.
Trying to live blog from the gSouth Africa event here in Camps Bay. Reason it is not happening LIVE live is that power is a bit of a challenge.
Currently I am in the “Chill Out and Recharge” room, getting some content online for you to read.
(If you are jumping into this series a little late, have a read from the Introduction HERE.)
Day Seven.
I know it is late, apologies for that.
Here it is though, a partial Day Seven, and the finale to this series.
(If you have not followed this series from the introduction you may start reading it HERE.)
Day six.
Today I will tackle one of the areas where Unity irritates me a bit: Notifying me of actionable windows/programs.
Since I have already managed to custom skin my Unity, I will go that direction and see if I can customise the notification triangles a little to make them more visible. They tend to disappear a little when the Unity Launcher has a pattern to it, like is the case with my snakeskin launcher.
Also some other thoughts as the day continues…
(The introduction to this series can be found HERE. Have a read.)
Okay, so today is Sunday, so I am not spending a lot of time on the laptop. I decided to test Unity with the SaGeek 25 Part test to see how it fares.
Let’s see how it did?
(If you want, you may read from the introduction to this series HERE.)
This day is starting early. We are going to a family get together in a few hours (why is the end of the year always to crazy!?) and I want to get something readable for you guys who are following this series before I am Internetless for a few hours.
I have something interesting for you folks – a custom unity launcher…
(If you want to know why I started this series, start reading HERE.)
Day three, and now there are problems in paradise.
Mutter has started misbehaving under load, and I need to killall – HUP mutter once in a while to get it back to a sane resource profile.
RAM wise Unity is awesome, but the spikes in CPU usage tends to kill the interface, and often you need to wait for ten or more seconds between clicking a launcher and actual response. But there is hope…
Elzje and I really enjoyed spending time with Bridgette. What was intended to be a interview for the blog ended up being one of the most enjoyable lunches we had in a very long time. Bridgette is one of those interesting and engaging people that make you want to explore new ideas and possibilities.
Google has a reputation of only employing the best and brightest, and Bridgette is proof of that.
For the better part of two hours we chatted with Bridgette, and afterwards I realized that I have very little interview wise to work with, but a wealth of information. And excitement for geekdom in Africa.
Below follows a loose transcript of something every aspiring geek should do at least once, lunch with Bridgette:
Today started well.
When I woke up I had that familiar numbness behind the eyes that goes with pushing out a blog post in the early AM’s before diving into bed next to my less-than-impressed darling wife.
On the upside my 3year old son was cradled in my arms, snuggling in best he could, and my daughter lay stretched out next to Elzje. Yep, today started well.
Then I got to work…
The second session is getting underway. I am nursing a dodge Internet connection and munching a sammich Elzje made for me. Single geeks, eat your heart out. (Dankie Love)
I have a feeling this session will be realy cool. Can’t believe two hours are gone already.
Today I am live at the Zacon hacking conference.
I will be live blogging from here, don’t know yet if I will be remaining for the whol day (it will be going from 9am to 8pm.)
If this writeup seems ugly – it is. I am typing as the presenters speak so I might miss a lot and spelling will predictably be a mess. I will add and clean up as I have time.
Let’s dive in. continue reading…
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