I’ll be attending and giving a presentation at Libre Graphics Meeting this year in Wrocław.

Title: ”Programmer’s hell: working with a UI designer”.

Time: Friday, 14:25.

Lot’s of fun guaranteed, come to feel some hot flames.

I rarely feel like blogging about personal stuff but today my patience finally went off. Since I switched from Finnish Nordea (which provides excellent service BTW) to a Polish one I’m having only problems. Not the only one being that for two months now they’re unable to send me a banking card for my account.

Today, however, something much more scary happened. When trying to send them email (using their own banking account messaging system) I got this nice failure:

Warning: pg_exec() [function.pg-exec]: Query failed: ERROR: syntax error at or near 
"u" at character 2101 in /www/pglib/libs/c_db_postgres.php on line 106
error: query(): ERROR: syntax error at or near "u" at character 2101 
INSERT INTO cms.tabmail ( sto, ssubject, scontent, sheaders ) VALUES 
( 'solopl@nordea.com', 'produkty i usługi bankowe', 
'Temat: produkty i usługi bankowe...

As garrett pointed out – of all the places you want to see this kind of error, your bank is not one. For those unfamiliar with the problem – it’s esentially an Sql injection bug which, in short, means that your system security is a piece of shit.

Miguel has a good status update on Moonlight. Complementing that I recorded a few simple demos presenting current state of our Moonlight trunk.

While talking to friends at FOSDEM I noticed that while everybody pretty much heard about Moonlight/Silverlight, not so many people have actually seen it in action. This is understandable – at the moment building Moon from source is not trivial. Hopefully those little videos will help a little.

Microsoft showcase – a website collecting links to various Silverlight-enabled pages and web apps. Users can browse sites and rate them. Built with Xaml and Javascript. Watch demo / Download high-res avi.

Podium – A dynamic mashup of various news related to US election candidates. Shows some more advanced text-flowing and formatting capabilities. Again – Xaml and Javascript. Watch demo / Download high-res avi.

Surfaces – A very simple surface manipulation/D&D example. Clutter has a similiar demo. Watch demo / Download high-res avi.

This is only a small selection of Silverlight-enabled sites which was easier to record (ie. not using media playback). A bigger list we use for testing is available at Moonlight 1.0 test sites.

Just a small status update: I recently quit Nokia and joined the new old faces at Novell for a brighter future. Cheers guys! Helsinki folks – don’t despair, you still have Meritahti.

Also, like last year, I’ll be coming to Brussels for FOSDEM this year. Let’s meet!

Murray writes about GNOME mobile:

The is currently most obvious in the GMAE (or GNOME Mobile) group, which Jeff insists on controlling, which the board allowed despite knowing what would happen. After almost two years it has produced nothing more than a press release announcing its existence, and that happened six months later than the members wanted.

I don’t think Jeff is to be blamed here first. I don’t know about other players involved but I personally feel that we at nokia simply didn’t put enough effort into GNOME mobile.

This is to be read carefully. We did put a lot of serious work (directly and indirectly) into GNOME and various GNOME mobile components. A lot of those efforts are invisible. Where we so far failed is to make this work standardized, reusable and transparent – what (if I understand correctly) was the original goal of the GNOME mobile.

Hopefully this can be changed. But I don’t think it’s fair to blame Jeff for this particular issue.