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QT/Jambi, recently released, works on Solaris 10 with Sun Studio 11 and QT 4.3.0. Mandatory pretty screenshot: http://www.stefanteleman.org/qtjambi/jambisolaris.jpg. And some patches for Sun Studio/Solaris: http://www.stefanteleman.org/qtjambi/. :-)

The long awaited 1.1.3 release is available. These were long months when I shared my time between 1.1.x development, 2.x development (careful porting) and Windows version. Aside from many fixes, Kexi 1.1.3 even brings new features, requested by users: Read More

I have been invited to join a subcommittee at the Dutch national institute for standards, NEN. This subcommittee is about document formats, and thus the new OOXML format is being discussed there as that is in its 5 month period for the fast track as requested by Ecma. Read More

According to this commentary in the online version of The Independent, there are now more hired mercenaries in Iraq than there are regular US and UK troops. Of course, information about this practice is not officially released by any government: instead, the mercenaries are very often called "security contractors", "civilian operatives", or "reconstruction workers". The author of the commentary says: "Britain alone has 21,000 in the country, raking in $1.6bn a year." American mercenary companies such as Blackwater seem to take a big slice of that particular business cake too. They seem to hire men from around the globe to fill in their vacancies, including many from third world contries such as Colombia. I don't expect you to read the full article now. But keep in mind to make up for that leeway, next time you watch some TV news about a topic like "Again 3 US civilians reported to have been kidnapped and killed in Iraq"....

I'm back from vacation / LinuxTag 2007: met many openSUSE, Trolltech, KDE and GNOME people - more than expected. Jump over to some pictures. On other news, Novell will be Silver sponsor of both aKademy and GUADEC this year. I will only visit aKademy though.

Well it's a long time since my last blog entry, but i was almost busy. In my personal life, there were no big changes, so it's almost annoying blogging about it. In the meantime KMobileTools had a great speedup, helped also by the joining of Matthias Lechner, who almost finished the gammu engine. So KMobileTools 0.5.0-beta3 was just released, bringing us very close to the final version. We also moved to extragear, since it's nearly stable code. Also i've started the port to KDE4. Actually it's almost completed, but it still rely on QT3 Support. But it's enough for the moment, so now KMobileTools is part of KDEPim, thanks also to Pinotree who helped a lot in the porting process, and to Allen Winter, the PIM coordinator :) Development now was just a bit slow down, due also to exams incoming, but it's still active, i just committed some code to fix some bugs, and to improve compatibility with more phones.

Yesterday I watched a talk given by Trolltech on Qt Jambi where we saw the presenter create a widget and use it in QtDesigner afterwards with an ease that is really compelling. This tied in with the points raised on Aarons blog earlier this week: on-mistaking-internet-for-interface. Read More

Google uses the same db backend as Kexi for offline operations. I mean: SQLite. http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_database.html Interesting times. This makes it possible to implement live connectivity to offline resources from KOffice and KDE itself. Then, after going online, the data can return to Google's server. With KexiDB it could also be automatically exported/replicated to your very own database, no matter it is MySQL, PostgreSQL or ODBC-compliant backend. Read More

Something I read on aaron's blog just now struck a chord with me, and cut through my morning head haze nicely. We are the renaissance geeks. Some of the stuff we do is indescribably technical and abstract, but it all has the end of increasing general utility, that is, by letting people use their computers in ways that grow their happiness and productivity. Read More

On Friday I'll fly to Milan for the upcoming Oxygen coding sprint. The objective is to get the Oxygen style into shape so it can be imported into kdebase. There is a lot of work for us to do, but Nuno and David are there for the artistic side and Riccardo (ruphy) and I will be coding on the spot. In addition Thomas will try to be online as much as possible from his home. Read More