NON irc way of contacting a Blender Developer?? (need to debug 3d view)

Does anybody know of an incantation that can be used to get a hold of an actual Blender Developer??

In any recent (post cloth sewing patch) build i can not get materials to show up in the 3d window (and UV painting is busted).

Im not sure if its a problem with the renderer, my vid card or some sort of setting thing help!!

The bug is worse in Cycles btw

As it sounds like a bug, you can report to the tracker:

https://developer.blender.org/ (Report Bug button)

I would like to do some info gathering before i post an invalid/half baked bug (doing a stupid filter first).

I would suggest submitting a bug report anyway, the bug tracker opens up a conversation with the developers.

just make sure you post your hardware, and what build of blender you are using. post a blend file as well.

Alternatively, make a post to the support forums detailing the supposed bug, what circumstances exactly produce it, including a file that produces the bug reliably for you. Ask if others experience the same problem; tell them that you are trying to figure out if it’s a bug, a mistake, or something else. Other users will test and either A) confirm that this is a bug and you should report it through the bug tracker, or B) notice some user error that is producing the problem and show you how to fix it.

The problem is i have asked in the forums before and have gotten no useful results. I think some of the problem is my setup is getting very rare (Atom Based netbook running win7 32 bit) this is why i need to talk to a developer.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5398233/leotest.blend