I started using Twitter last week. My interest was triggered by a very cool workshop on programming in Scala that was given at the company I work for. Twitter has a nice API which is very easy to use from Scala or any other programming language. I still try to figure out what the business case could be for using Twitter, but for the moment it’s quite fun to do a few daily updates on what keeps me busy and/or interested.
My Twitter ID is @mauritsrijk (direct link). I probably am going to use it to give more frequent updates on my GIMP# activities.
GIMP# with Mono 2.4 and GIMP 2.6
June 8, 2009 at 1:38 pm | In C#, GIMP | 3 CommentsI finally took some time to get GIMP# up and running with the latest Mono and GIMP releases. Not sure how I’m going to continue from here, but I will probably first update the code with the latest C# language features. Also since GIMP 2.6 has been out now for more than half a year, I will only support this version. Stay tuned for a maintenance release soon!
Writing GIMP plug-ins in Object Pascal
October 23, 2008 at 2:46 pm | In GIMP, Programming | 5 CommentsI slowly picked up GIMP# development again. To get my brain in the right mode I added a plug-in in yet another .NET language: Oxygene which is a kind of Object Pascal. From what I’ve seen it is a pretty decent language although I never understood why people would like to type 10 characters (“begin;” and “end;”) instead of 2 curly braces just to open and close a block 
For those interested: currently I run Mandriva 2009 with VirtualBox 2.0.2 on my loyal MacBook Pro for development. The fancy IDE I use is called Emacs.
IronRuby and the Fan Programming Language will probably be my next targets.
GIMP# 0.15 released
May 12, 2008 at 9:05 am | In C#, GIMP | 23 CommentsFinally a new GIMP# release. Major highlights for this release:
- Many improvements to get the Photoshop actions plug-in usable: 10 copyright-free actions are now verified and can be downloaded from SourceForge
- An abandoned plug-in to load GEM image files was ported
- The Russian translation was updated (thanks Alexandre!)
The next GIMP# version will be released as soon as I’ve got 20 correctly working Photoshop action files.
1000+ GIMP# downloads this month
February 25, 2008 at 7:36 pm | In GIMP | 4 CommentsA new milestone: in February the number of monthly GIMP# downloads surpassed 1000 for the first time. A big thanks goes to Ivo Rytir for the win32 installer and the patches he has submitted. His installer accounts for 60 % of the downloads. I happen to be in his hometown Toronto for the Agile 2008 conference this year and I will certainly buy him his favorite beer: Pilsner Urguell. Cheers Ivo!
Porting old GIMP plug-ins can be fun
December 15, 2007 at 11:32 am | In C#, GIMP | Leave a CommentI just ported an older GIMP plug-in to GIMP#. It’s the Sky plug-in which is part of the PhyModMedia plug-ins. First result:
Now I only have to clean-up the UI a bit, optimize the code somewhat and release it as part of GIMP# 0.14.
Btw, this plug-in was chosen as a result of this poll which asked for your favorite abandoned GIMP plug-in. You can still vote for yours!
F# and GIMP#
December 2, 2007 at 10:04 pm | In GIMP, Programming | 4 CommentsI almost got my first F# plug-in running on GIMP#. It took me some time to get used to the syntax even with a background in functional languages like Lisp and Scheme. Only thing left to figure out is how I can override a C# function that returns an IEnumerable. What I’ve got sofar is:
override x.ListProcedures() : seq<Procedure> =
let procedure = new Procedure()
procedure.MenuPath <- “<Image>/Filters/Generic”
// And now what?
The C# signature of this routine is
protected abstract IEnumerable<Procedure> ListProcedures() ;
Hope to find an answer pretty soon.
Update 3 December 2007: seems that returning an IEnumerable is quite easy (many thanks to Robert Pickering):
[procedure] :> seq<Procedure>
Bah!
November 29, 2007 at 10:39 pm | In GIMP, Programming | Leave a CommentAfter Boo comes bah. I’m probably going to burn in hell forever for having done this, but I actually created a Visual Basic plug-in for GIMP. The code is currently in CVS at the GIMP# Sourceforge page. Don’t look at the code unless you have a very strong stomach. Promise to myself: I will never ever create Basic code again. On a more serious note: the performance of the Visual Basic plug-in is comparable to the C#, Boo and Nemerle version!
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