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The coolest picture made at Akademy 2008 was made by Nepomuk developer Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes. This is the main square of Mechelen stitched together from 19 pictures. Check out the details. You will probably be able to buy it as a clock from the Mechelen tourist office soon. Read More

This year was just my second Akademy. And as my first one, two years ago in Dublin, it was a really great experience again. Actually I don't know where to start. To put it in one sentence, it almost feels like a huge family. Hundreds of people from all over the world come together and meet, they know each other, they work towards the same goal, they appreciate each other. Where else do you have that (for such a big number of people) ? Read More

Just two days ago I was still partly optimistic in the hope the ISO would do it's job. Yesterday we got it official, they don't. To break the own rule of consensus for things running though the fast-track process, to ignore all the provided feedback, to ignore any protest, to cloud as much of the decision-making as possible while hide-out any details or reasons leaves only one conclusion: The dying of the ISO starts... Read More

Today I came across an article explaining how to run JavaFX on Linux. I managed to install the sdk by downloading the Mac version. Next, I started the stopwatch example: cd /tmp unzip javafx_sdk-1_0-pre1-macosx-universal.zip export JAVAFX_HOME=/tmp/javafx-sdk1.0pre1 export PATH=/tmp/javafx-sdk1.0pre1/bin/:$PATH cd /tmp/javafx-sdk1.0pre1/samples/StopWatch unzip StopWatch.zip cd StopWatch ant run Read More

I'm real sorry, but the images in this blog post were lost in a server move (kdedevelopers cannot host images), so I had to delete it altogether =(

After a lot of deliberating this, I decided to put online an album with a lot of the pictures I took at Akademy. Since most people at (big) conferences and community gatherings like it when they can have some form of memento (including me!) of themselves and the event, I think this outweighs the (very few) people who didn't seem to like their picture being taken. Especially since most of the people actually tried posing in different positions when I came near them with my camera, which I think means obviously that they would want to see themselves afterwards :P Read More

Since, at the time of writing, I have another six hours of train journey before me on my way back from Akademy 2008 I decided to spend my remaining battery power on writing a blog about the event. Read More

Tomorrow is the last power-of-two day in the year and this happens to be Felix's birthday (if you remember 2^4*2^3=2^007 - a year has passed). I just finished burning a DVD with the movies we recorded and a slideshow of the best pictures and it's a strange feeling seeing him grow up in 5 1/2 minutes. Read More

It's a while I blogged last time about the progress on the goggle summer of code project to Improve OpenDocument in KWord. Mainly cause after working on a lot of smaller things till the mid-term we picked one of the bigger tasks and spend last weeks on it: pagestyles also known as masterpages. Read More

Printing in KOrganizer is really in need of some attention. Especially now that we are providing RichText capabilities in calendar descriptions and elsewhere. You can even write journal entries entirely in RichText. But the printing system doesn't know anything about RichText. Read More