Etteyafed
Welcome
Welcome to my wiki. Be advised that this page is still very much a work in progress. Feel free to send me any questions, comments, or advice at the address below. Email: MailTo(gdefayette@gmail.com)
Me
Hello, I am a pretty new in the Ubuntu developer community but I have been using GNU/Linux for several years. I live in New York state, USA and work at a toy factory. Its very non-technical and I am working on changing that, but for now its just a job. My technical knowledge is mostly self taught, but I always try to learn from others. I began using GNU/Linux in 1999 With Red Hat and never looked back, even though it needed a great deal of work at the time. At age 8 I learned to program in BASIC on an Apple IIC but never learned C/C++ until I was in high school. Still, I don't know why I haven't gotten involved in the community before now. I hope to improve my skills and contribute to the improvement of FOSS available to the world.
What am I doing?
I am testing the water, so to speak, by working on a few Desktop bugs. They are not much but I have very limited computer resources ( I am running on a PII 350Mhz w/224MB ram) so just doing what I am doing right now is quite a stretch. Now my old ceder mill celeron system doesn't seem so slow. No worries, I will be getting a new Core 2 laptop in a month or two. After the upgrade I hope to get more heavily and efficiently involved in the development process. On the good side I am finding that all my tinkering and recreational coding paid off as my current skill set seems to be adequate for solving the bugs that I am working on. I think that if my system weren't so slow ( I can't compile things quickly or load some required tools ) there would be fixes for one or two of them (there are only three right now anyway).
Right now.
Right now is a bit unproductive for me. I have almost given up on trying to do any serious work on this machine. I wish my other computer was still alive. Right now I am just saving the cash for a new high end laptop for mobile development.
Projects
I am starting a small project called KernelGUI. It will be a small and friendly but hopefully very helpful kernel module management utility written with both GTK+ and QT4. I am going to start on the classes and the GTK+ version first since Ubuntu uses Gnome but the QT4 version will be developed in parallel. The code will use the C++ STL as much as possible to make this easier and more practical. The classes I have so far all refrain from using toolkit specific code. I think that I might be able to get away with just having two main.cc files as the extent of the duplicity. If I keep the UI simple the different I might even be able to use one main.cc with preprocessor directives to sort out the proper includes and UI related code. This very speculative at this point. The development process in the future holds the answers. How quickly this gets going depends on how fast I can learn the GTK libs. All of my previous GUI experience has been in QT and VB. See https://launchpad.net/kernelgui/ for more information on this subject.
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This is all for now, but there will be more at a later date.
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