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Desktop Summit 2011

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Not loading a file’s DTD when doing an XSL Transformation in Java

This has hit me in the face two or three times already in the same project, and last time I solved it by calling /usr/bin/xsltproc –html from inside the servlet. Finally I’ve found a way to tell the underlying levels not to bother loading the DTD as it’s useless and doesn’t even live where the [...]

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Using mono’s WCF

Meebey uploaded the Mono 2.6 packages to his repo today, so I decided to finish porting blam to WCF and the supposedly perfect SyndicationFeed class, which should make the underlying feed format irrelevant. Big mistake, the code hasn’t been touched in six months and there are some pretty big bugs in it. First, when reading [...]

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Using libindicator-application for fun and profit

After spending two days fighting with DBus, GLib and the several libraries provided by the Ayatana project, I am now confident I know how to proceed implementing support for application indicators and DBus menus in GNOME Shell. The first thing you have to do is connect to indicator-application-service (the process that). You do this by [...]

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