Last weekend I was at Gnome Live, Boston to attend the Text Layout Summit.
The Text Layout Summit is a meeting intended to further all of Free software text rendering, both to screen and for print.

As I am a KWord developer I'm particularly interested in making sure KWord will be able to properly render all the notoriously difficult stuff that a good internationalized application should support.

In the recent KDevelop dot interview I noticed a very astute comment by someone named borker:

With the release of Trolltech's java bindings it kinda feels like Christmas. I wanted to point out some more presents under the tree...

We knew that some big companies like Adobe or Google developed some of their applications for MS Windows with the Qt toolkit. But they didn't take full advantage of Qt's cross-platform sweetness. Until now. Google released yesterday Google Earth Beta 4 and if you look closely at their download page there is a Linux version available. This is not using some Wine wrapper as Picasa before but is a native Qt 3 application. Time for other companies to wake it?

V for Vendetta is so good. Aaron and I went to see it yesterday. On the way there we went to a really great (and cheap) vegan Chinese place and stopped by an arcade (remember those?). Coming back we got asked for money under a bridge. The irony of having people ask for money from two trolls under a bridge runs deep.

The Canberra LUG and the Department of Computer Science at the Australian National University (in particular, Bob and Steve) have done some very nice work with a couple of Power5 boxes that IBM has loaned out.

...here. Yet.

"Yet" because I don't have anything to commit as all involved code is littered with commented codeblocks of failed attemps.

I am talking about a QObject adapter for the Qt3 D-BUS bindings, i.e. a wrapper class that makes slots of a given QObject instance callable through D-BUS.
Generating D-BUS introspection data from the slot signature is next.