'university' Category

• Aug 29
  2011

  Looking for a full time job in Open Source

  Two years ago I was really close to canceling my studies and looking for a job instead. In the end I continued studying, passed the final exams of my Diplom (the German old-school equivalent to a Master’s degree) with excellent results and st…

  posted in community, diplom, studies, university, work, Xfce by Jannis Pohlmann

• Jan 10
  2011

  Attending FOSDEM 2011

  Today Nick and I booked hotel rooms for FOSDEM so now it’s official that the two of us will be there. I’m very much looking forward to it and I’m hoping to meet some of you at the FOSDEM Beer Event on Friday! Still need to think …

  posted in community, conference, fosdem, studies, travelling, university, Xfce, xfce48 by Jannis Pohlmann

• Jul 17
  2010

  Final exams, diplom thesis and thunar-volman

  I guess it’s time for an update.

  This week I passed the last of four final exams in computer science and human-computer interaction at my university. Not only am I pleased that nine months of learning are over; I am also blessed with excell…

  posted in diplom, exams, gio, releases, studies, thesis, thumbnails, thunar, thunar-volman, tumbler, udev, university, volume management, work, Xfce, xfce48 by Jannis Pohlmann

• Jan 26
  2010

  Xfce 4.8 Schedule Changes

  As the Xfce release manager, I’d prefer to be the bringer of good news. Unfortunately, we have to make some adjustments with regards to the Xfce 4.8 release schedule.

  You may well remember last year’s chaos with the 4.6 release date. …

  posted in community, DeviceKit-disks, exo, gio, HAL, identica, libxfce4menu, libxfce4ui, releases, studies, thunar, thunar-volman, udev, university, volume management, work, Xfce, xfce4-settings, xfce46, xfce48 by Jannis Pohlmann

• Nov 25
  2009

  News From Busyland

  This is just a short heads up concerning Tumbler. I just merged Philip’s last critical commit to complete support for specialized thumbnailer services into master. We’ll have to give this some testing but I’m quite optimistic that…

  posted in conference, fosdem, gio, releases, studies, talks, thesis, thumbnails, thunar, tumbler, university, Xfce, xfce48 by Jannis Pohlmann

• Sep 07
  2009

  Long Overdue Update

  I haven’t posted anything in a while, but I’m not complaining. The last month I’ve been mostly busy pretending to be busy. Ok, to be honest, that’s not entirely true. Over at Xfce, we have achieved a lot in August:

  We’ve moved all Xfce repositori…

  posted in buildbot, community, gio, hardware, releases, studies, thesis, thunar, transifex, translations, university, Xfce, xfce48 by Jannis Pohlmann

• Jun 04
  2009

  News Update

  A lot of things are going on lately and it turns out I’m way to busy to update my weblog on a regular basis. So, this is just a short post to keep you all updated.

  Last two weeks

  I took a new student job at the university, at the Institute of T…

  posted in buildbot, conference, maemo, releases, ristretto, thesis, thunar, transifex, translations, travelling, tumbler, uds, university, work, Xfce, xubuntu by Jannis Pohlmann

• Apr 07
  2009

  Writing Your Own GIO Jobs

  After having moved into a new apartment I’m now back at working on my thesis about Thunar. There are a few things which are solved very differently in GIO than in ThunarVFS. One of them is the way jobs are handled. A job basically is a task which m…

  posted in gio, thesis, thunar, university, Xfce by Jannis Pohlmann