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For those that missed it, Microsoft recently released some of the specs relating to their office suite (http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/OfficeBinaryFormats.mspx). Naturally, they probably aren't everything we'd like to have (various people have suggested that they aren't complete, and I'd be surprised if there wasn't something omitted, more likely because of incomplete records than because of deliberate omission - the PR downside to deliberate omission becoming public would be a disaster). Read More

It's FOSDEM this weekend, a huge gathering of free software enthusiasts all in one place with dozens of talk tracks. I'm giving a packaging tutorial on the Sunday at 16:00 in the cross desktop devroom (note different time than advertised). Read More

TagLib 1.5 is out. As always, file any bug reports that you happen to run into in the bug tracker. As there are specifically a couple things that I intend to implement (wav / aiff support as well as support for ID3v2 tags in RIFF chunks) I expect a 1.5.1 (or 1.6) to be much faster in coming around this time. Read More

It's this time of the year when all the events seem to happen at almost the same time: the upcoming week-end Dirk and Will will be at FOSDEM and give a talk "KDE 4 on openSUSE 11" on Sunday morning in the openSUSE Developer Room. The week-end after I will be at the openSUSE booth of Chemnitzer Linux-Tage. The week after is CebIT, visit the openSUSE counters at the Novell booth and check whether Martin presents KDE or something else. I plan to do a control visit on some secret day too. ;-) Also in March, Novell BrainShare happens where Zonker and Adrian will offer the suits an introduction to KDE4 (session IO140). :-)

I was inspired by Alexander's blog about text based presentation software. This has always been a sore point of mine. See the problem with most software is they are focused on making it pretty but not the content. This imho leads to a wasteland of bullet points with no flow, and people who just read their points right from the slides. Read More

I am proud to announce that finally nepomuk.kde.org went online. A owe a big thank you to pinheiro who not only designed the new Nepomuk icon but also did the webpage layout. I also want to thank Luke Parry who adapted pinheiros design for Drupal. Last but not least Dirk Mueller went through the trouble to actually setup Drupal. Read More

Just so that you won't all forget: next weekend there's FOSDEM in Brussels. You can find the complete schedule in a handy grid layout here. For KDE people, I guess the most interesting non-main track talks could be those in the KDE devroom and the Crossdesktop devroom. Read More

This Wednesday Marble got fully translated to Czech (thanks to Vít Pelčák) - including some fixes to the localized city names in the Czech Republic (thanks to Karel Volný). Recently I've looked closer at the KDE Localization Statistics which seem to have improved a lot during the last few months. What has become more and more apparent to me is the fact that Marble might soon be the virtual globe that has the best and most translated GUI on this marbleous planet. Ok, this shouldn't exactly be the primary concern of a tool like this (Yes, I hear you asking for more and better maps instead and we are working on that as well). Caption: Marble's UI translated to Chinese (Credits for the Screenshot: John Smith). Read More

I just decided for myself I should try to use a text based presentation software, since GUI-based presentation apps require you to think about what goes on which page from the beginning, usually you see only the current page, you have to think about the layout (fontsize, decorations etc.), you have to use the mouse, etc. Read More

This is what I was able to see this morning, out of the window in my new Dutch apartment. As ERASMUS student, two weeks ago I moved to Leiden for my studies, and here I am, facing myself with the Dutch environment. And its weather as well, that today kindly remember that we are still in winter. (Although last weekend was really nice, sunny and warm.) Read More