Monthly Archives: August 2010

Shotwell 0.7.1 Released

Yorba has released Shotwell 0.7.1, an update to our digital photo organizer.  This release includes: * Fix for a critical bug that caused Shotwell to crash when deleting the only photo in an event * F-Spot import now correctly interprets older databases

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Contributing to Shotwell

Jorge Castro asked for our thoughts on a recent (and highly active) contributor, Bruno Girin.  Bruno provided a mountain-load of energy developing the F-Spot migration code for Shotwell 0.7.  Here’s Jorge’s report as well as Bruno’s story about how he

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Shotwell 0.7 Released!

Yorba has released Shotwell 0.7.0, a major update to our digital photo manager. This release includes a host of new features, such as: Migration support for F-Spot users: Shotwell can import photos directly from your F-Spot library, preserving tags and

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Synchronization in Vala

When I first began working with threads in Vala, I was happy to see its lock keyword.  Compare that response to when I wrote my first Java program (wa-aa-ay back in 1996).  I was a bit put off by the

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