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I think it's important that the Fedora KDE / Spins Community speak out about how Fedora treats KDE and other spins. Given Fedora is about to have FESCo election, now is the perfect time to get community feedback on what candidates think. Read More

It's been an awful while since I last blogged, we all go though periods where things get rather crazy all at once or boring, mine went though both. Jobs It took awhile (try 9 months!), but I started one job but decided to resign half a year later when I felt things didn't connect well. I still wish them all the best, they were nice people. Now, I work at a great Open Source company, Remote Learner, we focus on Moodle and provide upstream patches, new features and addons. I spend my time in the DevOps/Infrastructure side of things with Puppet and random scripts. I have a great team and we do awesome things with git too. Read More

I've been really busy on the job front these days most recently being interviewed at palantir.com HQ. It was a great experience. I made it to the final steps but unfortunately, was not an exact fit for what they needed (I applied for a Quality Engineering role). Even so, I'm proud to have gotten to the decision stage, they aren't an easy company to get into. Now that my passport is being renewed, hopefully more opportunities will arrive. The economy hasn't made any of this easy looking for work but hopefully something comes around soon. Please take a look at my Linkedin profile. If something catches your interest, contact me :) http://ca.linkedin.com/in/shawnstarr/ Read More

So, on my Fedora Rawhide box, somehow it refused to allow logins via ssh, somehow SELinux in permissive mode was spewing failures left and right. Aug 28 13:35:27 panic kernel: [ 67.224233] type=1400 audit(1346175322.774:78): avc: denied { read } for pid=618 comm="fedora-storage-" name="ld.so.cache" dev=dm-0 ino=1271 scontext=system_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=file Aug 28 13:35:27 panic kernel: [ 67.226381] type=1400 audit(1346175322.778:79): avc: denied { open } for pid=618 comm="fedora-storage-" name="ld.so.cache" dev=dm-0 ino=1271 scontext=system_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=file Read More

It is sad to report, but I have been laid off at RIM/BlackBerry today. I wish them all the best with Qt. I now look for a new adventure, a new opportunity to help the Open Source community grow. Read More

We're hiring Qt developers in Germany, for those who might not know, BlackBerry 10 is using Qt for our core platform with Cascades for our UI/UX framework. Details are here: https://rim.taleo.net/careersection/professional/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=256223 Read More

Speaking for myself and not for RIM With RIM's serious push for Qt as part of the core frameworks and a more Open Source push for its ecosystem, it's the right time for me to jump in. Read More

Please note: This blog is personal and opinions are of my own and do not represent RIM I've been quiet for a while now. Lots of things going on in my life. I have not forgotten KDE, but I'm still unable to work on anything at this time (more on that in future post). Read More

Well, today I was let go after being at Platform Computing working on our Open Source software for almost 5 years. It's been one of those up and downer days. I read the FLOSS blog postings from all the different communities and see people being let go and now I'm one of them :-( Read More

There will be some new weather providers coming soon. I am currently working on adding a Netherlands source (current conditions only provided free). Someone is working on a German source and I plan on adding 7 day forecast info to the NOAA provider hopefully soon. Read More

We did it! Congratulations to everyone who made this possible! It's this kind of spirit that makes me want to shed a tear of joy. Read More

Well, I've been extremely busy on the weather plasmoid and finally, '1.0' is ready for use. It's now moved to kdereview so that any final bugs can be shaken out. This should arrive in extragear as soon as the review is completed. Read More

So,I've moved. This is the first week that I'm in my new place. If you were wondering why I haven't done much coding, that's why ;-) Getting used to living away from the nest. Read More

Hello, Just to let everyone know, I haven't stopped development. Here's a current look of the plasmoid with more changes coming I've been busy with notmart aka Marco Martin and finally the results are starting to pay off nicely. I am still gunning for KDE 4.2 to have the '1.0' version of this plasmoid complete and ready for use. Read More

On Monday, I drove to Guelph to hang out with some friends and then take the VIA Train to Ottawa. We arrived around 5pm today. About the only thing done that was productive today was order a Pizza and sync rawhide and pray wireless will work tomorrow morning. Read More

Our famous Oxygen folks have brought a taste of things to come for the weather plasmoid. This mockup is a work in progress. Credit goes to Pinheiro and Lee Olson from Oxygen for getting things started! Read More

O woe is me, your poor systray. I work so hard to show you statuses, and even then I get no respect. I make your panel shine with glee, O please say a prayer for me. Read More

Just as everyone else SHOULD be doing.... [image:3521 size="original" nolink=1] (thanks to whoever drew the artwork) Go HERE to vote if you're a member of Fedora With the election going on, I believe we'll have a great board elected to continue the progress Fedora is making. So do your part and VOTE NOW! Read More

Well, a few days ago, I attended the release party for Fedora 9. There was a lot of people who showed up a few Red Hat folks who work on Fedora and packages. There were also a few users who showed up to try Fedora out for the first time. It was a big success! Thanks to all who came out Read More

Collaboration I am pleasantly surprised to hear from Aaron Seigo and others that there has been more collaboration going on that most people might not know about. Learning that Qt 4.x now can use the Glib event loop gives us a lot of abilities to create glue between KDE and GNOME interfaces which is really encouraging. Read More

It's been a little while since I've last posted an entry. My own personal life has been busy and hasn't given me much time to work on code. That will change soon though :-) Read More

Technorati Profile You know, it's just in my nature. When someone falls, you help them up. When someone needs help you provide assistance. Well, the same goes in the online world. You see, ever since Aaron Seigo and Siraj Razick wrote up the CIA.vc applet, I sort of had a small crush for it. After watching it bitrot, stumble and cry for help. I thought it was time to make it smile and feel loved once again. Read More

Well, the homestretch is near, I've had to dropped some functionality to get this finished for KDE 4.0.0. So, no Icons for this version. But, you can see It should replace most of the functionality kweather did. This applet does not support dropping onto the panel or If it does, it might not render correctly. Read More

Given the time constraints for KDE 4.0, I have decided to downgrade the functionality for the weather applet. In this release, my aim is to replace kweather functionality completely. This should be feesable to do for the 1.0 release. Read More

Ontario Linux Fest 2007 I had a good time at Ontario Linux Fest 2007. This being the inaugural event there were some small annoyances like lack of plugs for laptops. They did have free WiFi and there was time for me to hack on the weatherengine while there. This conference has a mix of corporate and geek culture and slightly differs from OLS (Ottawa Linux Symposium) but it's likely to grow and evolve over time. Read More

While the Plasma APIs have been in flux (and is beginning to settle down now). I went about implement displaying the wind speed in metres per second as requested by a KDE person. It converts mph to m/s or km/h to m/s. This will become a configuration option once the applet code is started. Read More

We had a Plasma meeting yesterday. One of the things discussed was to move the weather engine bits into KDE trunk. This is now done. Richard Moore is planning on taking a look at a bug in the UKMET BBC datasource. Once that issue is fixed. I plan on finishing the ion. I will be adding to the Techbase Wiki information on how the dataengine works, how the data formatting should be done so that each ion can be used by anyone's own weather applets. Read More

Seems like I'm not the only one taking the KDE 'holiday' vacation days. Usually the last two weeks of August are typically quiet. I did hack up the testapplet locally to connect to the WeatherEngine, so far, it returns a list of available datasources (Ions) in a kDebug() :-). Read More

Thanks to Chris Lee for adding me to the Planet! First, an introduction. Hello, I'm Shawn Starr, I've been busily working on the weather engine for Plasma. The plan is to begin working on an applet as soon as some javascript bindings for the dataengine are ready to use. Read More