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So I was notified that commits to KDE are HOT, and I am in serious need of some hotness. What could be more hot than working on Kiosk Tool? Well maybe KHTML, but I don't need love that badly. Read More

Well I have been mumbling for a few weeks now about this "Flo" project and so far I have gotten a ton of encouraging feedback. For those of you who don't know what Flo is, here is a gentle introduction. Read More

“Perfection is reached not when there’s nothing left to add, but when there’s nothing left to remove.” - Antoine de St. Exupery I have been frustrated with the UI of Flo now for the past week. Read More

I have been facinated with mind mapping now for about 3 years. I have been using it on a regular basis for trying to organize disjointed thoughts, make coherent sense out of brainstorming sessions, and lately for every day design documentation. Read More

So I have been working underground for a while on a web framework based on Qt but its gotten out of control and I need more help on it. The initial goal was to write a creole 1. Read More

So after a few emails of feedback on MyPoint i have made a few changes and updates to the tool. The big change is that I changed the wiki formatting to trac's flavor of markup. Read More

I was inspired by Alexander's blog about text based presentation software. This has always been a sore point of mine. See the problem with most software is they are focused on making it pretty but not the content. Read More

So finally i have some visual progress to the wiki editor. Right now it is more of a wiki viewer, but its progress :) [image:3236] So far the basic character formatting is working great. Read More

So now I am trying to put the output of my wiki parser into a QTextDocument. I am struggling with the QTextCursor though. Things are not acting at all as I would think they do. Read More

Finally I have had some more hack time and this morning I got the last of Creole tables supported. There is still a problem with how I am doing the delimiters of the table pipes when it contains a wiki link. Read More

So I have been working on a Wiki parser in Qt and so far have most of the basic cases working. I tried two approaches one with a series of regexps and the other using a tokenizing parser. Read More

Okay so I can say 2007 sucked the big one, but 2008 is looking good so far. 2006-2007 had been a pretty rough time for me. In 2006 I set aside my consulting company and my wife left me. Read More

Well I got in a few good nights of hacking on KJSEmbed and am getting back up to speed again. Last night I fixed a big problem rich was having in the scribble demo. Read More

Some of you may have heard already that I am moving on from SourceXtreme, Inc. Due to the stress of being involved as a partner in a small company I decided to set it aside for a while so I could concentrate on my mental health and KDE development again. Read More

Proof that finding useful stuff on the internet is much harder than it should be. This was found as a side link with a google search for "stroke matching"... |%..... |. Read More

There has been some talk here at the office about making custom stylized buttons in Qt 4. Since the Qt 4.1 painting is pretty friggen cool I played around with a tool that can generate stylized buttons. Read More

One of the cool things about Qt that seems to be ignored is the QLayout classes. Most of us are content to use simple things like QHBox and QVBox layouts to get what we want. Read More

well finally my wife's grandfather has passed away. we went out last week to visit him, so at least we got some closure there and a chance to say good bye. Read More

At 10pm yesterday my father in law phoned me to tell me that his father was in the hospital with pneumonia, and will most likely not be going home. He has been quite sick for some time, and over the past 3 years more and more complications from cancer, chemotherapy, surgeries etc have really tired him out. Read More

So I made the mistake of reading my email first thing this morning and came across this gem: http://lists.trolltech.com/qt4-preview-feedback/2005-06/thread00567-0.html It made me reflect on how I have come to dislike some users of open source. Read More

Oh man, these last few weeks have been rough. I got a new toy, but that is an entirely different blog all together. So here is the lowdown on what I got working with KSJEmbed in the last few weeks: Read More

yeah i just could not resist http://www.planearium2.de/flash/sp-studio-e.html. now i can be like everybody else ;) at least now my avatar should not scare small children.

So over the last few weeks I have started work on the new KJSEmbed that will be in KDE 4. In a change of heart that is an entirely different blog all together I have decided that I will push to have KJSEmbed in the core of KDE 4. Read More

So because of events outside of my own wilful control I have been mandated to render every computer in the house booting or recycle it. Now past the fact that there are about 20 some computers in the basement, and that some of them have operating systems I wrote long ago in school I have some keepers that are in dire need of help. Read More

Man it seems like months since I have taken the time to blog, but this quarter just flew by. Since Zack joined the party at Trolltech we have been on the hunt for more developers. Read More

this was a comment to [Usability, Usability, Usability] but it grew too big and figured it would best be in a blog. Note I am not a usability expert, as I only took two courses in "Human factors in engineering". Read More

Okay so zack and i where at lunch talking about KDE 4. One item that came up was the idea of a simple editor part. Currently KOffice has the KoShell, but imagine having something with the Kate interface that could edit images, text, simple rich text, sounds, etc. Read More

Okay, so you are a happy customer with their shiny new Qt application. According to Trolltech now your application is portable. Then reality sets in and you find you are not much better off than before. Read More

...is a media player for my TV :P Basicly I can't seem to find what I am looking for. All I want is a small set top box that I can plugin, or use wifi to play mp3/oggs via my entertainment system's stereo system, and a way to put my large collection of avi,mpegs, and vcds on my nice TV screen. Read More

I remember back in the KDE 2 betas trying to find an editor that would handle the KDE desktop files. They where simple ini files, but I could never remember all the stupid little details of how the damn things worked. Read More

So due to Debian's insistance on messing with packages and KDE's fragile docs build system, I found myself in #kde-docs yesterday. Man either I'm a sucker for kiwi women or I just hate life. Read More

Yeah so I think this is some evidence as to why I don't have any friends ;) In other news, I am almost finished with my KScript how-to for application developers and users. Read More

The lie: Step 1) Porting KDE applications get Windows users used to KDE applications. Step 2) Once they are used to the applications they migrate. The reality: Okay this is "Programmer Logic". Read More

So one of the reasons I went to Mexico last week was to get more Latin American developers involved in KDE. So it looks like I got one and thats cool. Read More

Burritos are not Mexican food. ( I was crushed on this revelation ) "Ian" (e-in) is an insult in Spanish. ( J-Pablo taught me everything I know about the language ) The only words J-Pablo knows in English are " Read More

Okay so now I have the octave console done, and now I am working on getting a nice GUI around the plotting stuff.... Well it seems the authors of GNUPlot are better at making graphs than writing code. Read More

So they say necessity is the mother of all invention... personally I tend to believe its the affections of a woman ;) Basicly it started last week, my wife is working on her masters in EE, and found out that the lab at work didn't have Matlab installed for his DSP class. Read More

One of the largest problems we have in KDevelop is that people use our templates. The problem with templates is they are obsolete the second you install them on your project. Read More

So I am fed up with autotools. Its possibly the worst possible build system I have ever had the displeasure of being abused by. Its probably because I never got into m4 macros, or testing the size of an int of my machine every time I try to build a project. Read More

So about 3 months ago I took a survey of some of the projects I have been using meta-programming techniques with and decided on two basic things: a) Meta-programming can make tedious error prone development faster, easier and more reliable. Read More

One thing I always come back from the KDE meetings in Europe from is how friggen spread out the US developers are. Every year Zack and I try to get a few east coast KDE devels together for a hackfest. Read More

So i was trying to figure out how to copy songs from my favorite Juk play lists onto my mp3 player most efficiently. So I hit up wheels about Juk's dcop interface. Read More

so sometime last week I got my Sony Ericsson T610 phone. After the fear that I would be stuck using the default themes on the phone I went out in search of the file format or some information on them. Read More

Someone a few days ago on IRC asked me about creating kde:KSystemTray apps with KJSEmbed. So I dug into it and found out how cool it really is... It seems there are two parts to building scripts that use the system tray. Read More

So it seemed like a good idea 3 months ago. We needed a utility that would create Palm data files, and embed images in them. We had a java pdb generator already so we figured hey, parse in the data file and images and we are home free. Read More

Well, after basicly 3 weeks of hounding from chris i got the server upgraded. To my utter shock and surprise drupal radically changed their plug-ins and themes. This blew about 9 hours porting as many of them to the new api as i could. Read More

There has always been this inane call to port KDevelop to windows so we can entice windows developers to Qt. Personally I think this call is bullsh*t, and think it makes about as much sense as saying "More people will use Macs if they port Adobe Photoshop to Windows. Read More

Well Alexander promised me that he would give me a QVariant editor widget tomorrow, so I am psyched. I grew annoyed with Qts qt:QSQLPropertyMap and decided to deviate some with my own take on the bugger. Read More

Well I have been busy this week bothering Zack and fellow employees here. For the last 5 months I have been fighting with the concept of Java's Storable interface, and MFC's CDocument object. Read More

As an exersize I have been exploring the feasibility of migrating from KJSEmbed scripts to C++... Anyone who has worked in industry for any length of time is completely aware of how those temporary solutions become not so temporary. Read More

Wow this week was productive. I added transparent Javascript Array to QStringList handling and transparent Javascript Date to Qt DateTime classes with the help of Harri. Rich added support for setting the application name off of the script, so things like config files, xmlgui, and standard icons work as they do in normal KDE apps. Read More

This last weekend I finally broke down and wrote my second most favorite game in the whole wide world "Daleks" ie "Robots" for those Americans who got the magazine "Creative Computing". Read More

I love open source. Software development is my hobby and passion.... its my release and my work of art. Personally I take great pleasure when people out there say they run KWeather, or like some other feature in KDE that I have worked on. Read More

I've been working on these articles for KJSEmbed and have loved the response I've gotten so far. We have generated new interest in the project and gained a few followers... Read More

bad news, i got distracted. good news [image:424]. oh yeah rich i also enabled the layout code in kjsembed and it even works. i needed to fix it so i could have nice tiles on my game without fighting with QCanvas bindings just yet. Read More

Well, I finally got around to implementing my pet pieve with KJSEmbed. When you imported a UI File, you would just get the top level widget. Now after my modifications, it will add the child widgets as JavaScript properties of the parent. Read More

I think for about 6 months now I have been toying with a KJSEmbed IDE and failing at most turns... I'm still not convinced this [image:203,middle] although now I have more Javascript language support [image:386,middle]. Read More

After wasting a few hours converting some old C++ GUI code to UI files for easier management I decided to write a small tool to move C++ based GUI code to Qt's UI files. Read More

Well now that I have been working with getting Kolab to handle my spam and virus issues I think I have finally found a nice solution. A few weeks ago when I was testing my email spam filters here I went out on usenet and posted my name a few times. Read More

In the beginning it was a neat idea. They wanted a common set of standards for interop on the desktop... Then somehow it all went wrong, somehow implementations started to pollute these standards. Read More

I never thought this day would ever come, but finally I got enough together so I could get the banner for linux world ordered. Its only been on hold for 3 weeks now as I've tried to extract useable artwork out of various KDE people. Read More

Well it has been a busy two weeks. I have been fixing a few bugs in kjembed here and there and pushing its limites with my two scripts... oh yeah i have a new script [Envelope Maker|EnvelopeMaker]. Read More

Well up until now most KJSEmbed examples we have had seemed very contrived. This morning we got into a problem with building buttons for our web site. We decided it was not worth doing in PHP since the buttons never changed, but none of us had the talent to build them by hand. Read More

So I was talking to my wife last night who does rubber stamping as her hobby. Unlike me who hacks for hours on KDE she toys around with rubber stamps, various inks and things found from garage sales to make art. Read More

Okay so it was a cold Sunday morning, and I just couldn't seem to make it out of bed. So with my warm Powerbook, I hacked out this little cvs:[kdebindings/kjsembed/docs/examples/invaders/invaders.js|nugget]: [image:260,middle] Read More

Finally after a long time of messing with this, DCOP now works in KJSEmbed. Currently we support any type that can be used inside of a qt:QVariant. KJS functions can also be exported to DCOP interfaces now. Read More

Okay so now I have enough to start working on a KJSApplet installer [image:243,middle]. At this point KIconLoader works so we can get standard KDE icons. KIO works so i can download files off the internet, and I can create the files. Read More

Yeah, im insane... but you can. Check out cvs:[kdenonbeta/applets/kjsapplet] from cvs and build/install it. Next comes the fun part. There are 3 files, an .la file, desktop file and a js file. Read More

okay so my old visor prism is starting to show its age... its big its bulky and after owning two newtons before that, its cumbersome to use... so im shopping. Read More

Man its been almost a month now since i posted... Well n7y was great and i got to start on a ton of stuff that im just now finishing. The coolest one IMHO is KJS support in KDevelop 3. Read More

Okay, my bags are packed and my papers in order. I jokingly remarked to my wife that all i need to do is a short stint by boat and i will have gone by land air and sea to get to where im going. Read More

Okay so after years of holding out and waiting as my powerpc linux systems get more and more obsolete, ive given up on SuSE. They refuse to maintain anything other than ia32, not that i dont blame them. Read More

So my wife wanted to install a kde app a last night that she found on source forge... okay no biggie, i told her to just get the RPM off of the SuSE cd. Read More

After looking at the current eyesore in kcontrols style chooser I decided to share some thoughts on how and why to do certain UI things. The old chooser had a listbox to select a style from, while the new one uses a combo box. Read More

Well today was a complete waste for anything other than getting linux booting reliably on my powerbook again (dont ask) and messing with my cellphone and cvs:[kdenonbeta/kio_obex|kio_obex]. I have to say so far Im impressed. Read More

Okay so I couldn't sleep last night, so I spent the night playing with dcop python and found that dcop signals where missing. Needless to say I added them. cvs:[kdebindings/dcoppython/test/signal.py|This] short example script shows off the happy new functions in action. Read More

So i was mucking with dcop some tonight and playing with the new python bindings. The new bindings are much faster and are self contained so you can use them from PyGTK or PyQt. Read More

We have this nice class kde:KRecentDocument (we dont use it nearly where we should but thats another rant ;) ). As I have been working at making KDE more usable I found we dont track recently run applications the way we should. Read More

Slowly progress is made, we finally got our plugin to load cleanly in Outlook proper this week now that we moved from MS's crappy STL attempt to STLport. There are still some issues with using STL in DLLs but we can login and dont get 5000 assertions from their buggy STL. Read More

So I'm trying to figure out how to add a menu to a single folder, kinda like the trashcan when it hits me. We have this .directory file in there. I wonder how hard it would be to add a service menu to that folder via the . Read More

http://www.derkarl.org/cvscommits.phtml?id=46437 Mothers hide your daughters Qt 3.2 is now in CVS. So does this mean its time to move up?

This is a test post from KBlog. If it works it will be ready for CVS. Currently there are issues with the post manager. The selection dialogs need some refinement. Read More

DCOPWidgets are widgets that are accessble via dcop. You can load a UI file that was built in designer and then access it from any lanuage that can talk via dcop. Read More

Well i have hacked the greater part of the day on cleaning up the kblog code. The backend is now completely generic and im now switching the main code over to use that code. Read More

Okay, the members page is in a usable state, but I think im going to have to rewrite the module because it wont use any of the current filters or i18n stuff. Read More

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KDE Presence at LinuxTag 2003 - [KDE News] This is a test of "blogging" a link.

This is kind of an experiment. My goal is to provide a blog for KDE developers to share their thoughts and ideas. This is ment only for KDE developers for now, because ive grown tired of the chat boards and news sites. Read More