Frank Osterfeld 

If you're a developer interested in RSS in KDE (and maybe you are at GCDS right now), please scroll to the end. Akregator development was slowed down for quite some time: The development team was basically reduced to one person, me, and I had not much time for it. That's why Akregator only slowly recovered from porting regressions introduced during the KDE4 port. Also, the article storage layer showed its limitations (see startup time and memory consumption) and the metakit backend implementation lacks robustness, thus it became clear that something must happen to make both the user experience pleasant and hacking Akregator fun again. Another long outstanding wish of mine was to decouple feed list handling and item storage from the core Application to a central desktop service, to make both accessible to other applications without the need to run Akregator. Read More

Want to see how to crash almost every KDE application? In your favorite KDE application, open any modal dialog, e.g. the configuration dialog. Quit the application using D-BUS, like this: qdbus org.kde.kontact /MainApplication quit Chances are high that your application just bit the dust and you're greeted by Dr. Konqui. Read More

KDAB and the FSFE Fellowship Group Berlin invite you all to celebrate the 4.2 release with us. Date: January 28th, 2009 (Wednesday) Time: 20:00 Place: KDAB Office Berlin, Adalbertstr. 7/8, U Kottbusser Tor (map) Read More

As Roberto blogged about how he converted his blog into a blog/podcast hybrid using Talkr, I thought I should tell you about a well-hidden, half-finished feature in Akregator: Basic Text-to-Speech support. Read More

As it turned out yesterday, even ferrets like KDE: But unfortunately they make KDE apps crash sometimes, so KDE can't be certified as ferret-proof yet. Which brings us to the fact, that the research field of animal-centric computing was neglected for too long. What tremendous opportunities we have here! Just compare the numbers: There live trillions of animals on planet earth, where the homo sapiens population is ridiculously small. You can't seriously talk about world domination if you don't take this into account. Read More

Ok dudes, now I finally started a blog at kdedevelopers.org. Working on Akregator, a tool that many people read blogs with, I am not really an early adopter when it comes to blogging myself ;-). Well, there is the Akregator blog where we blog from time to time what's going on in Akregator development, so check this out if you're interested. Read More