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The Akademy 2007 Call for Sponsors is out there. We've contacted our previous sponsors, but there must be companies and organisations out there who depend on KDE and would be willing to help the most important conference out there in return for their logo on a big banner infront of hundreds of computer professionals. Send us an e-mail if you know of any companies who fit that description. Read More

After I wrote about how to use an ActiveRecord model with a QtRuby Qt::TableView, Silvio Fonseca sent me a nice improvement where he has written a generic Qt::AbstractTableModel that will work with any collection of ActiveRecord instances. Meanwhile, Imo one of the ruby hackers here at Foton where I work, gave a very interesting presentation on Friday, about the new feature in EdgeRails called 'ActiveResource'. He showed how the same table model could be used to create a QtRuby front end to ActiveResource. Read More

I've done a bit more stuff with QtScript in order to keep up with the changes in the Qt snapshots. The API has changed a bit to make things more consistent, and I've updated the demo code I had to work with the new version. The changes to support the new API were pretty simple, and basically amount to using factory methods on QScriptEngine to create your script values. The cast operator qscript_cast has also been renamed and is now qscriptvalue_cast, but it works as before. Read More

Today, Midas Dekkers read the last of 1250 entertaining audio columns on man and nature. Many of his columns are available on the website of Vroege Vogels. You can download either an mp3 of the two hour show of more than 100 mb in size, or you can stream the wma version and skip to the column. That's at least the theory. Under Linux, I was so far unable to conveniently listen to the wma stream. Now I've found VLC and made a small perl script that calls VLC from the URL. Read More

Via slashdot I read this essay by Jonathan Lethem. It is a stunning, jaw dropping piece of work. I don't know what to say to add to it. I love vintage country music and he even mentions the similarity between Kitty Well's “It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels

I finally decided I needed a laptop. My dream machine would meet the following criteria: Linux friendly. I would like to "vote with my wallet" and buy a machine for which there exist open source drivers for all components. I will be compiling a lot with it, so it should be quite fast at this. This means a fast processor, a decent hard disk and not turning into a bakeoven everytime a binary is linking. Not the size of an aircraft-carrier. But not too small too. If you know the model of my dream machine, please tell me! Read More

As I wrote in my last blog, KOrganizer now has the ability to export the calendar to all different kinds of formats using technology called XSLT transformations. The only thing that I'm missing (because I'm entirely bad at those things) are good designs that I can implement. So I'm looking for nice and visually appealing designs of how calendar exports might look. Possible export formats are e.g. Read More

Linspire have announced that future versions will be based on Ubuntu.In their Canonical partnership FAQ they say that they're sticking with their preferred desktop, KDE, which adds one more to the list of Kubuntu Derived Distros. Read More

I do Ruby Rails development as part of my day job, and one of the nice parts of Rails is the ActiveRecord Object-Relational Mapping framework. Today I've been playing with QtRuby using a Qt::AbstractTableModel based on ActiveRecord, and it's really simple to implement and works really well. Read More

What a stupid idea! How shortsighted, to not consult with their readers beforehand! www.freesoftwaremagazine.com have announced that they will stop offering their publication as a PDF for download. Instead, they will go "online only".... Read More