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LZMA is a relatively new compression algorithm. It is used in more and more places: 7-zip, the Linux kernel and deb and RPM packages. So adding LZMA to Strigi was a desirable step. The code for LZMA can be downloaded from the 7-zip website. It is in the public domain. Read More

After I received a lot of positive feedback about my Akonadi Resource Tutorial, or probably more accurate outright praises :), I knew I had to write another one. This time I chose a topic that is probably less relevant for the majority of developers, however it should be helpful for people who either work on PIM applications with data types not yet covered by our current code or who want to use Akonadi for non-PIM data. Read More

I recently noticed that although I have already talked about using KDE4's KWin in KDE3 or any other window manager in KDE instead of KWin, there is one thing missing in the mix: Using KWin without the KDE desktop. Read More

Have you ever been a bit irritated by a wart on an API, that gives you a slightly uncomfortable feeling when you think about it, and an itch to try an fix it? Once such wart was in the way standard Plasma plasmoid packages worked; you could call the main script any name you like as long as it was 'main'. That meant that if you looked at your Ruby, Python or JavaScript applet code in Kate it didn't have any syntax highlighting as the editor depends on a '.rb', '.py' or '.js' suffix. Read More

Amazing how long it always takes for me to write a log entry. So many times in the last months I told myself I had to write the next entry... well, new year's resolution (a little late I know): more blogging about what I am up to (regarding KDE of course). Read More

In a great demonstration that not only do great minds think alike, they can also subconsciously syncronise to attack the same problem, Luca Beltrame and I started work on our own tutorials about writing Plasma applets using Python at exactly the same time and day this weekend. We've coordinated ourselves and now there are 3 new tutorials about programming Plasma applets with Python up on techbase. The first tutorial by myself is an introduction to the whole work cycle of creating an applet. Luca continues in the second tutorial with how to use Plasma widgets in an applet. And today I've written another tutorial about how to use DataEngines in an applet. Read More

Björn and I sat down (or rather mailed around) to get the FSFE Fellowship Meeting and KDE 4.2 Stuttgart Release Party going. Of course that involved talking to people around here. Ingo of RadioTux was on my list of locals, so I contacted him. What I didn't expect was to be interviewed on RadioTux just a few days later. I had a short interview on RadioTux. So if you are really brave, you can listen to me (in German), stuttering here. After some technical problems they got me on the phone at around 65 minutes. And d'oh, could I think of many things to say when skipping through it afterwards... I guess I still need to work on my promo skills. But it turned out much less embarassing than I had originally feared :D Read More

Before going to last years Akademy I had planned to use the week to try and start helping out with Ruby support for KDevelop4. In the end I got sidetracked by two things; playing with the Nokia N810 and finding out about a web application development library called 'Wt'. Koen Deforche gave a talk about Wt and I was impressed the way he described how web development usually sucked, and why a widget based desktop style api was better than the usual web page with embedded code approach. Read More

A new version of the KDE Four Live CD with KDE 4.2 RC 1 packages is up. </twitter>

Hi, just out of interest, where is Gnome heading these days ? I'm a bit confused. There is Gnome2, which are applications written using libgtk2, mostly in C (also some Python and C#). Read More