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During the last couple of days I've been working on trying to get parts of kde packaged for maemo, to make development for others easier, and after some struggles, I finally succeeded in doing part of this. Most of this isn't available yet in the official extras-devel repository, because getting it to build in the buildsystem there would probably be quite some extra work, but I've uploaded the binary packages to my own repository. All the stuff in this repository is of course very experimental, and it might do all kinds of ugly things, but I at least managed to run kbuildsycoca4 after installing kdelibs5 from my repository. Read More

FrOSCon is coming up tomorrow-like... need to get ready, who stole all my time? Still some notes from Akademy. It was my first (therefor best) Akademy! I can only say it was great meeting so many nice people. Others have blogged about that quite a bit already, so I will save me the effort ;) Read More

I really enjoyed Akademy this year, and blagging a Nokia N810 right on the day of my birthday was one of the highlights of a great week. I'm very keen to port the QtRuby bindings to the N810 as it should make a nice development environment for quickly developing small free standing apps and Plasma applets. Instead of using Scratchbox, cross compiling on a laptop, and then downloading the binaries, I've been building on the device itself. I'll summarize what I've done so far to get my tablet set up with dual booting OSs and native compilation. Read More

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