After spending few years using WordPress, MODx, PHPnuke I found out those systems getting more and more complicated, well yes sophisticated too, but first of all complicated. Anyway, feeling that this is not right direction I have decided to rewrite something by my own; simple, but powerful enough to provide functionality that you expect from most of the modern sites – blog, forums, RSS feeds.

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Today I got assigned to two GNU projects: GNU IDN Library & GNU SASL Library. As jabberd2 relays on both of them and I am the one responsible for making it running on Windows, I had to make few patches, that were gratefully accepted by Simon Josefsson – maintainer of those GNU libraries.

Recently I’ve received two papers from GNU (originated from U.S.) and few great stickers with gnus I had to sign it back after carefully studying them. And now I am officially assigned and my changes went to the official repository.

Can I call myself genuine OpenSource developer now !?

Update: Steve King has patched my Vista GDI+ based menus with pure GDI method at TortoiseSVN revision 14191 as described lately by Microsoft. Pure GDI method no longer requires GDI+, which is not present in Premium versions of Vista, maintaining full compatibility with older versions of Windows.

I’m an author of few patches for both Tortoise SVN and Tortoise CVS that makes them display the explorer’s context menu icons nicely on XP and Windows 2000. Both programs are implementing IContextMenu and using QueryContextMenu function to create items of popup menu of explorer. Briefly the called extension must fill menu items with InsertMenuItem using suplied HMENU hmenu parameter.

During development of those few patches I’ve learnt some few new things about way we make icons displayed next to menu items I want to share with you… (more…)