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I'd like to inform you all of my tutorial on instant messaging development for Kopete (the KDE instant messenger), at 10.00am (huh?) on aKademy 2007's tutorial day. In an act of breathtaking opportunism I noticed that the no-one else has promoted their talk yet, so with a massive First Post!, be cognizant that both chat protocol and utility plugin development for the KDE 4 Kopete API will be presented to you, with lots of detail on the tricks and tips needed to make a useful extension to KDE's number one IM application. Read More

Debconf finished in Edinburgh. Thursday night saw a ceilidh which went surprisingly well despite the poor ratio of lasses to laddies. msp's talk on the Debian KDE Extras team was interesting and I hope I didn't ramble too much in my comments on why the Kubuntu relationship is the way it is. There was also a KDE packagers BoF early on Saturday which gave some interesting history into the current team. No volunteers to package Jambi yet though. Read More

Long time no blog (It seems most of my blog entries begin like that...). In case you missed it, Gwenview has moved to kdegraphics, yeah! I am very happy about it. Read More

The mEDUXa Canary Islands schools Linux project was based on Free Software, and we've finally got round to setting up a community version of it that people can hack. You can read about it on this KDE Dot News story and follow the link there for screen shots and more explanation. I'm quite excited by the prospects of Free Software in Education - it just seems inevitable that the Free Software Hacker Ethic will take over and change Education just as much as it has transformed the process of software development. Change education and you can change the World. Read More

Debconf rolled into town and took over Edinburgh university's lovely Teviot building. Makes quite a change being able to cycle for 10 minutes to get to a conference rather than travelling for a day. Me and Kenny have been keeping an eye out for things to copy and things to improve for Akademy (now only 11 days until arrivals). Read More

As i'm currently very busy with university in these days, and also i've to code both kde3 and kde4 branches, i was wondering if someone is willing to contribute with a not-too-complex application to be rewritten. The application is kserialdeviceemulator in kmobiletools/tests (kde3).. i tried to use it to solve a (damn) bug with PDU encoding, and i noticed that the emulator itself is more and more buggy than kmobiletools :P So that's what i had in mind: Read More

(versione italiana) Finally after some troubles i could finish LiveMobileTools 0.5.0-beta3. There are no major release hilights, just the ones in the KMobileTools 0.5.0-beta3 release.. plus the addition of KDEBluetooth 1.0-beta3 which should make the Live CD work better. Enjoy it :)

After a week of about no sleep due to aweful heat, it was really rainy around here. So what are you doing with a rainy weekend? Right, improve openSUSE boot time :) Read More

The year's greatest free software conference, Akademy 2007 is only two weeks away. We have some top stuff lined up for you. Keynotes will be from Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical, Lars Knoll of Trolltech and Dan Kohn from Linux Foundation. The rest of the conference programme is packed with goodies including an opening from local member of parliament Patrick Harvie and a closing with the Akademy Awards (the winning names are written inside a sealed envelope on my desk, anyone trying to steal it will have to get through my laser intrusion system). After the conference on Saturday we'll be having pizza and music at the chateau, remember to fill in your food preferences or you won't get any pizza. Read More

About two days ago I wrote about changes in the way browser plugins are ging to be handled. At that time, based on the information I gathered from two threads on kfm-devel (linked to from the other blog entry), I assumed that the new Adobe Flash player plugin would just use XEmbed for the visual part but still be an old style in-process plugin with all its difficulties. Read More