Awesome Gnome Book

I have been playing around with Gnome and writing some applications for it and I always found the documentation out there to be kind of hard to take in as a newbie to the Gnome ways of development. I have been on the lookout for a good introduction type book or document. And today one was published on the web. http://www.gnome.org/~newren/tutorials/developing-with-gnome/ This tutorial rocks!! It answers so many questions I had about different things that I feel I should pay for it. Maybe it is time I donate to the GnomeFriends foundation. This blogger gives this document two thumbs up...

Going to the races

Tomorrow morning I will be on the road to Michigan International Speedway to watch the NASCAR race there. It should be pretty fun. I have been there to watch Indy racing which is pretty fun but this should top that. Hopefully Ryan Newman will pull out another win at Michigan.

A feature I want in Gnome

There is a feature that I want to be in gnome. I think it needs to be at the GTK level but I have no clue. I started to look into it but I don't know what to call it. The feature I want is something you can do in MS Windows. If you have a window open that has a list you can select a file (or directory or any value in the list) and start typing the one you want. The list will then refocus to the location. Example: I have a list of 500 directories. I know there is a directory in there call "orange" so I click the first directory named "apple" and I start typing "ora" now the list has refocused on orange I hit enter and use this value.

usbautocam for Linux

I found this link a while ago and I think other people might like it. http://warmcat.com/usbautocam/ It sets up Linux to accept all sorts of USB storage tools like cameras, MP3 players, etc.

This would be something that I would like to see in Fedora Core in one shape or another. Maybe setup a GUI tool that does this when a new USB device is added then configure it the first time. Then after that it would already know what to do with it.