Duncan Mac-Vicar 

Sad news today, but... Matt, just thanks for all your contributions in Kopete. You dude rock. I hope to see you in Akademy. Good luck in your new projects! We will miss you a lot. Read More

2004 has gone. Nice end-of-year celebrations like Christmas, time to spend with family. Got some neat gifts, like a coffee machine to make real coffee. Scott complained while being in Chile about we drinking nescafe. New year was also cool, had a nice dinner with family and cousins and then I went to a cool party in a big house. Unlimited bar and good music. Read More

After 7 years of hard work I finally finished University. No more classes. I should now work hard to give my MSc. thesis a final polish so I can present it in the following months, and then I'll able to graduate both as a Civil Industrial Engineer in Computer Science and as a MSc. in Engineering at the same time. I am very happy with this. Read More

We were discussing about the pro/cons and ideas around this. There is a wiki page, feel free to comment. Here

Chapter III of the crusade is done. Kopete now supports displaying KABC pictures both in the metacontact tooltip and in the contact list itself. Further integration with specific protocols avatars and this property is coming. How it looks by now? Read More

After upgrading my kdepim to HEAD (nicely, I did a PKGBUILD for archlinux that grabs and builds it). I started to fill my kabc pictures with the nice kde:KPixmapRegionSelectorDialog from Antonio and other developers (This dialog should be used in Kopete to select the MSN display picture for instance) (yes I coded a similar one too and then realized it was already commited). Then I modified the nice applet kickpim (I can't live without it) to show the kabc pictures. Kopete contact list should be next victim. Even KMail's quick address selector is a good candidate. Any place where you look for a person quickly is a good candidate if you can match faces instead of reading the name. Read More

When iChat was released and I saw the contact list with big face avatars I remembered inmediately that humans can recognize faces much faster than reading a name. Since that moment I wished that KDE could drop text everywhere it is not needed and start using faces (w/text as an addition if it makes sense). As I don't have too much time to even hack in Kopete because University and thesis, my time got limited to build HEAD and read all the lists. Read More

I am invited to give a talk to a Business Summit on Thursday, in La Serena city. As I am used to, the audience are business people and my talk will have to be very general. My current plan right now is to talk about technology as a tool for entrepeneurs, opensource, copyright, licenses, creative commons, and other cool stuff, and of course, can't wait to decide where to put a big KDE logo somewhere in a slide to tell them about the project. Known city for me since it is where I lived before coming to University in Santiago. Read More

Uhm, after reading other developers journals for some time, I logged in for first time... this is my first post yay.