Grid wiki now open

http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/Plugins/Grid

So far I’m just using it to keep track of interesting feature ideas.

Beware of future creep

Nice article which puts a name to the way your junior programmers try to justify their 11 callbacks, all methods virtual and factory singletons when all you need is a single C function with the right parameters.

http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1324-beware-of-future-creep

It’s certainly a grey area, but it’s the mark of a seasoned programmer that they can make the correct call.

Personally, I see a dividing line between public api (the api which covers 85% of customer needs) and the “implementation” api which is notionally public but actually very few people use.

I can tolerate a little baggage in the public api if it becomes more robust to future refactorings (especially a class of refactorings, not just a single one). There’s no place for cruft in your implementation api however because that usually contains the difficult stuff and the interfaces reflect to a much greater extent the underlying implementation which may be changed any time.

New grid release adds “middle resizing” & xinerama support

Keys 2,5,8 now resize to the middle third on the second press. Thus it’s now really easy to create a 3×2 grid.

I now consider grid to be feature complete. The only things left are polish – respecting window minimum size hint and window size increment (for terminals). Animation would might be a nice option if somebody would like to submit a patch.