At last year's Akademy, I had the chance to ask Bill Hoffman, one of the key figures behind CMake, a couple of questions about it. One of them was the availability of the full CMake documentation, which seemed to only in print. It turned out that this is not the case: CMake is well-documented and easy to learn. Read on for more.

This weeks c't magazine furnishes an article on ThreadWeaver programming as part of their long-going series on articles on concurrent programming. An interesting feature of the article is that is describes ThreadWeaver as a component of the upcoming KDE 4 platform.

After almost a year of I am working on the Qt3 D-Bus bindings again.

The past week I have been fiercely working on getting them in shape for the requirement of the D-Bus based DAPI implementation on KDE3.

Since working with bindings is quite boring I decided to write a code generator that creates nice wrapper code for D-Bus interfaces (service and client side).

This really got me into hacker mood, so aside from the benefit of easier debugging later on I had the necessary commitment for free :)

Today I have been working on support for maps (dictionaries in D-Bus speak), but I think I should have concentrated on QString as key first and not writing code for all primitives right away.

If you want to see something in action, check this mailinglist posting by me for further links.

Since I am a bit of a KDE PIM guy, I especially like the address book section :)

So, the week or two I've had a little fun hacking up a Icecream Monitor mode that's more like the Teambuilder monitor.

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Teambuilder was always cool conceptually, but in practice never really worked all that well for me. Icecream actually works but I wasn't terribly fond of the monitor a few weeks back. The only two options were the listview mode -- which just listed the jobs as they happened without any nice visual indicators -- and the Gantt View mode, which takes about 50% of my CPU just for painting. So, the above is what I've gradually hacked up.

Latest Icecream Monitor hacking, now with support for multiple jobs on one machine and color coded hosts.

Wow, it has been more then 5 months since i posted here... This really requires an update :)

Yes i have implemented it in Kompare and committed it to CVS but unfortunately it is not activated atm. It is not open for discussion before people start begging me about activating it because it is not in the release plan and it is way too late for new features.

... Kompare seems to be in a useful state again atm. I did a lot of hacking on it and moving a lot of code around and i think the code is a bit cleaner now and easier to maintain.

It's been a while since i posted last but i fixed some merging bugs... I dont know why they happened but i guess it is because i suck. I should not have committed this stuff before properly trying if it was safe to commit.

It has finally happened: i merged the make_it_cool branch for kompare into head.