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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
 June

June 18th was my last day at Red Hat.

I spent last week road-tripping to Eastern Canada with my friends.

In a couple of weeks I will start working for Google Canada in the Waterloo office. I will be working for a large part on HarfBuzz as part of the Chrome / ChromeOS team.

Unfortunately the setup also means that I have to skip this year's GUADEC as I can't get a visa on time :(.

I will keep my current GNOME duties, namely maintaining the text stack (fribidi, fontconfig, harfbuzz, pango, etc) as well as vte. The break may give me some time hacking on things I couldn't get the time to hack on before even. We'll see.

That's all for June.

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More webkit hackers, great! :). Spread that love to the gtk port too.

Best of luck in your new job.

diegoe
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : July 01, 2010 12:36 AM
 
s/hackers/hacking/ to be more precise.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : July 01, 2010 12:37 AM
 
Al the best for your new job
# posted by Blogger Sankar : July 01, 2010 12:58 AM
 
Good luck with new job.
# posted by Blogger امیر : July 01, 2010 2:00 AM
 
Congrats! I only know a few of the Chrome / Chrome OS guys but they're all really awesome.

Also, they all keep muttering about text rendering on Linux so you'll have your work cut out for you...
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : July 01, 2010 3:23 AM
 
Congrats on the new job!
Congrats to Google too.

I've added you to the list of Google Open Source stars
# posted by Blogger Pádraig Brady : July 01, 2010 7:58 AM
 
Will this stuff be possible on Chromi too?

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/font-control-for-designers/
# posted by Blogger clavicymbel : July 01, 2010 8:02 AM
 
Good luck behdad!
# posted by Blogger jorge : July 01, 2010 8:53 AM
 
Congrats and best of luck, Behdad!
# posted by Blogger Sandy : July 01, 2010 8:55 AM
 
Congrats, Behdad!
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : July 01, 2010 9:38 AM
 
It would make me so happy if you got the chrome guys to support the lcdfilter parameter in fonts.conf
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : July 01, 2010 10:43 AM
 
Goodbye Behdad! It's been nice having you around GNOME, I am sure you'll do very well in Google.

It's not that I don't trust you, but hackers going to Google have a long history of dropping off the planet (or almost).

I wish you all the best!

Cheers,
Dave.
# posted by Blogger Dave Neary : July 01, 2010 11:28 AM
 
Thank you everyone.
# posted by Blogger behdad : July 05, 2010 7:50 PM
 
Congratulations on the new job! I'm sorry we'll miss you at GUADEC.
# posted by Anonymous Stormy : July 06, 2010 12:27 PM
 
congrad on the new job. Hope proper RTL rendering for persian/arabic gets some spot in the official release line of android production releases soon...
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : July 28, 2010 5:34 PM
 
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