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It's a while I blogged last time and a lot happened during that decade. So, let's summarize some lately highlights around the Kross Scripting Framework; The famous Superkaramba got Kross as optional backend and guess what, we got it managed to stay backward-compatible. For example Aero AIO and A-foto are already running with the next generation of Superkaramba with Kross. Fantastic work Alexander Wiedenbruch provided here. Read More

Nada como um "desafio" de uma arena de programação. Esconderam um código na página e com dicas do futuro lá também :-) O "código" escondido é um pequeno javascript do infame Rot13 "criptografado" em Rot13. Espero que o grau de dificuldade posterior vá bem além disso, porque um bom programador ia acabar se sentindo ofendido de entrar num trial com esse tipo de questionamento. Basta dar uma pequena olhada nos trials do Google que se entende o que é uma dificuldade real. Read More

Launchpad today got a shiny new makeover for the 1.0 beta. If you haven't looked at Launchpad yet I highly recommend it for hosting free software projects. Nifty features include linking bugs to different distributions, team management and web based translations. But the killer feature is integration with Bazaar (bzr) which makes it super easy to make branches. If you are working on something which is at all experimental just branch then merge back in to mainline once its done. The other killer feature is that unlike other free software hosting sites you don't have to ask to set up a project, just fill in the name and it's done, project registered, it gives the freedom to be able to set up a project for any random script you think would be useful to others. Read More

Not an April Fool's day article. Appeared yesterday. In the British Guardian:   "No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch" "I share the outrage expressed in the British press over the treatment of our naval personnel accused by Iran of illegally entering their waters. It is a disgrace. We would never dream of treating captives like this - allowing them to smoke cigarettes, for example, even though it has been proven that smoking kills. And as for compelling poor servicewoman Faye Turney to wear a black headscarf, and then allowing the picture to be posted around the world - have the Iranians no concept of civilised behaviour? For God's sake, what's wrong with putting a bag over her head? That's what we do with the Muslims we capture: we put bags over their heads, so it's hard to breathe. Then it's perfectly acceptable to take photographs of them and circulate them to the press because the captives can't be recognised and humiliated in the way these unfortunate British service people are." Read More

In KWord we always had a very simple way to structure pages. We just stored the height of a page and when there is a frame at position 10000 you can calculate its at, say, page 12. Naturally, this only gets you so far and we had requests for things like differently sized pages and pagespreads. So, in October 2005 ago I wrote a Page class and a PageManager class. Which was released in KOffice 1.5. This already gave features like being able to have a document start from page 10, instead of always from page 1. But unfortunately there never appeared a GUI for it, and thus users could not use it. Read More

Bild-Leser-Reporter Stephan K. found that while trying to grab some icecream for his pregnant wife:

I've been a bit quiet lately. Sorry for that, I was more focussing on getting nice things done which was needed for me to make sure my open source efforts stay enjoyable :) Read More

Hum, long time no blog... I finally bought a laptop: it's a Lenovo 3000 N100. I am happy to report almost everything worked out of the box when I installed Ubuntu Edgy, including Wifi. Only tricky thing was figuring out how to get the correct video resolution. It turned out the only necessary action was to apt-get install 915resolution. Read More

How to get more developers on our board? No doubt, it's easier to get them as we support more languages. Kross helps to utilize this strategy, especially for Python, Ruby, Javascript and (soon/less or more) Java developers. Read More

Finally, the dialog section in the HIG has made some progress. Thank to Olaf who knows Qt Designer much better than I do, we found a way to create a clean dialog layout for KDE4. The trick is to use the same ratio of spacers on bottom of each group box. Read more in the guidelines! Read More