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Exciting times, past and ahead

Sunday, 2 September 2012
The past part So many interesting things have happened since my last blog post that the list below is probably missing a lot of stuff. Switzerland and Germany Thanks to the KDE e. Read More

Around the world

Thursday, 21 April 2011
After asking the KDE e.V. for funding, I can now finally say I'm going to the Platform 11 sprint in June and to Desktop Summit in August. I would like to thank the e. Read More

Updates to freebsd.kde.org

Sunday, 19 December 2010
A few days ago, Alberto Villa committed some changes to the KDE on FreeBSD website: it is now using the Chihuaha framework, which means it looks a lot more like the rest of the kde. Read More

No more KBugBuster

Monday, 8 November 2010
Yesterday, I moved KBugBuster from trunk/KDE/kdesdk to tags/unmaintained/4. For those unfamiliar with it, it is/was a frontend to KDE's Bugzilla, so that you could interact with it without a web browser. Read More

Icecream and glibc 2.11.2

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
In case you use Icecream (the distributed compile system which makes your coworkers' machines compile KDE for you :)) and happen to be using a glibc >= 2.11.2, you might notice that you are not able to send compilation jobs to other machines while still being visible to the scheduler and receiving jobs from other hosts. Read More

Patch review weekend

Sunday, 4 July 2010
Besides maintaining Ark, I also spend some of my KDE time reviewing and applying patches for other projects as well. This weekend I had some free time, which was dedicated to applying some Kopete patches and pushing some KDE-FreeBSD patches upstream. Read More

News from Ark land

Sunday, 20 June 2010
When I started blogging in the end of last year, I thought I would write much more frequently than I do: if only I had better marketing abilities, there would certainly be many more posts about what's going on the Ark, KDE's beloved archive manager, and KDE on FreeBSD fronts. Read More

Ark Junior Jobs

Saturday, 2 January 2010
So let's talk about what's going on in the Ark land. Some time ago, Lydia blogged about raising the number of bug reports marked as junior jobs on Bugzilla. I've done my part, and currently there are 12 Ark bug reports listed as junior jobs. Read More

In which the author introduces himself

Friday, 13 November 2009
Hi there. In order to keep the tradition, an introduction in this first post. I'm Raphael Kubo da Costa, a 20-year-old Computer Science student at State University of Campinas, Brazil, and also part-time employee at ProFUSION Embedded Systems (a very nice place for any free software developer, I'd say). Read More