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In response to the wonderful people who Want to Give Away Some Money, I am now formally announcing that I will gratefully accept donations/compensation to my PayPay account (awinterz AT earthlink DOT net). And I will thank you, even if you don't ask for thanks. Read More

Ok, so no next update in the Krita plugin tutorial yet (it'll surely be done before the end of the month ahem). But much more spectacular was the comet I just saw in the dusky sky. I had a very lucky few moments of no clouds in just the right area, which also by pure luck had a relatively clear line of sight to the horizon. Comet McNaught was very noticeable with the naked eye, and even nicer to look at with a pair of binoculars. Too bad the clouds overtook the comit rapidly, so I had no chance to get my camera and take a picture of it. I fear that by tomorrow it'll be too low to spot, but still, I'm very happy to have seen it, even if it was only for a few moments :) Maybe this blog will encourage the people that have a less cloudy weather, have a clearer horizon, and are located more northernly, to take a look outside their windows tomorrow. (More info on how to observe.) For the people on the southern hemisphere: you'll apparently get your chance to observe it as well in a little while :)

This morning I woke up from the loud sounds of people drilling and otherwise renovating the house. Ahh, the empty apartment upstairs has gotten new occupants! It didn't take long before I decided to leave the house for today, the continues sounds of building are horrible for my concentration. Read More

Last weekend I took part in the "Konqueror Bugsquad Days". We had a few handful of KDE contributors taking part, AFAIK all of them non-C++/Qt coders. Knowing nearly nothing about HTML rendering, or JavaScript and what-not, I picked to sift through all bug reports that contained the string "print". Read More

Let's give it another try! After both Berlin-based usability get-togethers ("Open Source Usability Stammtisch" and "Usability Professionals Stammtisch") somehow died during last summer, we decided to join the two efforts. Starting tomorrow, we'll have regular meetings (2nd Wednesday/month) at newthinking store in Berlin Mitte. For each get-together, a topic is prepared by one of the participants and worked out during the session. Read More

On December 25th the icecream scheduler died (as we found out today). This is the last log message: 19:43:07: put 281278480 in joblist of tangelo So the scheduler worked fine for over 281 Million compile jobs (roughly 5400 KDE compilations from scratch) and then died - without any hint on what he died on. I guess Dirk is right, the winter in germany is just too hot for icecream. Read More

I've done a bit of tidying up of the QtScript code I was working on, so here's another version. Now, as well as being able to create individual widgets, you can load UI files from Designer. I've also cleaned up the API for calling exec(). Read More

Now we can create widgets and load .ui files, we can take the time to fix a few other things. Initially, we could create widgets, but we couldn't specify their parents. Handling this is quite a small change: Read More

So finally I decided to do a completely fresh install on my notebook, a Dell C640. If you are looking for a notebook which is good supported by Linux and FreeBSD, I can really recommend it, everything works out-of-the-box. also under FreeBSD, also the external VGA connector, useful when giving talks etc. Read More

As you might have read in Kent's blog post yesterday, the latest Qt 4.3 snapshots just gained a javascript interpreter. I had a bit of a play with it yesterday and it's pretty neat. Unfortunately it doesn't expose any fun objects by default, so I decided to make it possible to create QWidgets. Read More