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Why the title...?
Well, I got in. GNOME Outreach Program for Women, GOPW if you like acronyms.So, now: a blog! A technichal blog!But before getting to the technical stuff: why the title, you might ask? That is why I...
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So...
Let's start! Hi, I'm Marta, I am a OPW intern. I want to write a "0 Beginners Tutorial" for using Gtk+ in Python.How did I end up here? I wish I knew... no, wait: I know! It was something along the...
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New examples (they know where their towel is).
Yesterday I managed to write the example of a GtkScale and the one of a GtkSpinbutton. Yesterday was Towel Day. Guess at which value the screenshot showed them?SpinButton......and Scales!(Both examples...
View ArticleYet another OPW update!
What, more than ten days have already passed from my last post? What was I thinking? What was I doing?Oh, yes: I was writing! Code and documentation pages!First look at the "samples needed" section in...
View ArticleWhat's in a page?
A page of the O Beginners Tutorial for Gtk+ in Python, I mean...First of all, there is an image of a window with the widget "in action".Then there is the code to get exactly that example. Heavily...
View ArticleTheory and practice are always the same thing. In theory, not in practice.
Ok, I said: "The main idea: one page, one widget; one widget, one page." in the last post about the 0 Beginners Tutorial, two weeks ago. (My, how time flies and all that sort of things!)Of course,...
View ArticleGreetings from A Coruña.
I am getting used to eating dinner at 9:30pm (as opposed to 7:00pm, like we usually do in London). Now I am waiting for the pre-registration event, for my mentor to arrive, for the conference to...
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Last day of GUADEC ahead...
After three intense days, which feel as full as a week and quick as a minute; after beautiful talks (not as many as I had hoped to have time or strength for), addictive chats (I did not expect as many,...
View ArticleGUADEC + 1 (actually: + 2)
OK, I got it wrong. GUADEC did not really end on Sunday.On Monday, I went to my first hackfest - the PyGObject hackfest. It was fantastic. Thank you to Martin Pitt and Paolo Borelli and John Palmieri...
View ArticleNear the end, a cliffhanger.
(As in every half-decent movie!) The time of my internship in the Outreach Program for Women is almost over! A GIGANTIC THANK YOU to Marina, Tiffany and everybody that has given me the opportunity to...
View ArticleSo, how did it go?
The ButtonBox had some problems. Namely: it was a calculator... that did not work! At least, not if you tried to do something along the lines of "2 + 3 - 1".I spent half a day re-writing the methods...
View ArticleLong time...
...no blog.Sorry. I was taking a holiday (it went very well), then trying to resuscitate my Java (it's feeling a bit better, I should learn to use github well and put what I did there soon), then...
View ArticleTrying to wake up.
It didn't go as planned.Too many things I wanted to try? Maybe.The result, anyway, has been quite a disaster.I still haven't learned C (or Go, for that matter); I tried but miserably failed to read...
View ArticleAnd I also saw a kangaroo in the wild.
Hi, I am in Australia.I am at linux.conf.au in Canberra, to be precise. Always trying to learn something new - I cannot wait for the talk about Git for Ages 4 and Up, by Michael Schwern, today...
View ArticleMore kangaroos, children's games, and I cannot make the title too long.
LCA2013 closed this afternoon. My intellectual batteries feel so recharged they could light a medium-sized city.The children's game is none other than... our old friend Git, as presented by Michael...
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California! (Help! I need somebody!)
Let's go back a few months - let's say, September. Marina Zhurakhinskaya writes me an idea: Tiffany Antopolski and/or I could present something at PyCon about the tutorial for GTK+ in Python I wrote...
View ArticleReady for Brno? I hope so!
In the last week I revised as much Python 3 as I could, and I tried to teach myself the basics of JavaScript. And let's not forget Mallard!The (Not So Evil) Plan:To give a closure to that Python...
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Planning... in Brno.
So, how did the Documentation sprint go? Not bad, not bad at all. I wish I would have been feeling better (I was quite under the weather, I don't know why) - and that I could have been a bit more...
View ArticleSo: PyCon!
I should have probably written something in the last days, but I was, well... overwhelmed.I arrived in Santa Clara (after about 12 hours on a plane, and that was just to San Francisco) on the 12th - in...
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