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It has been a while since I blogged. The reason is simple: the birth of my daughter turned my brain upside down (as in: "as far as I can tell there exists only one thing in the whole world and it is not this blog"). Now, thousands of hours of staring at her later (and also after the very successful last Nepomuk project review) I am finally back to blogging. Read More

While a new law was accomplished that allows police to break into every house, install a trojan horse on our computer-systems and video-cams in our rooms to secret monitor us, others are on there way to ban internet-games they don't like or to just shut down wikipedia cause they can; Read More

Another small idea we realized for openSUSE 11.1 is a link in the first-login greeter to a "Introduction to KDE4" page. Originally written for the greeter (hence the current layout and shortness) the text ended in the wiki because we were past openSUSE translation freeze. The wiki solution also allows extension anytime (feedback and translations welcome). Its purpose is to give new KDE users and KDE3 switchers some (openSUSE-specific) explanations and hints for a good KDE4 start. Read More

I'll be giving a KDE 4 talk at the Hobby and Electronics fair in Stuttgart tomorrow (Nov, 16th). If you were planing to drop by the fair, come on over at 15:30. You probably won't learn a lot about KDE since I intend to prepare for a rather broad non-technical audience. Let me know if you happen to be in Stuttgart and want to have a coffee or just chat :)

I'm developing and maintaining a small application called Plutimikation for my daughters. It's a math learning game for children. Today I did a release of the current state as Plutimikation 0.2. It's the second release. The first release was four years ago. It's interesting how tools and infrastructure have evolved since then. Today releasing software is almost fun. Read More

KDE svn trunk requires [http://www.cmake.org CMake] 2.6.2 since last week. Version 2.6.2 has been released just a few weeks ago, so maybe there are not yet packages for all distros. 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

Another bit for the upcoming openSUSE 11.1 KDE4 desktop is power management: KPowersave has not been ported to KDE4. Powerdevil, which will be part of KDE 4.2, comes to our rescue. Together with a backport of the battery plasmoid popup from KDE 4.2 SVN as in yesterday's released openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5 we get a good power management solution. The backport only uses QWidgets so that we are not forced to backport all the latest Plasma 4.2 widgets etc.: Read More

KDE trunk now needs CMake 2.6.2. A few people have asked where it can be found for Kubuntu, fear not friends it's in intrepid-backports. You can enable backports through Adept by ticking the "Unsupported Updates" box in the sources editor.

While eagerly awaiting KDevelop4 to become stable (it crashes on me too often right now)... I'm back to forgetting vim commands ;) To get a list of files on the left (still need to get comfy with it, but it looks useful) use the Project plugin Read More