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... for the Germans around, especially Berlin-based ones: Call for Papers and Participation - WUD Berlin 2006 2nd World Usability Day (WUD) 2006 in Berlin ZIELSTELLUNG Dieses Jahr findet zum zweiten Mal der weltweite "World Usability Day" unter dem Motto "Making life easy" statt. Von den Veranstaltungen in über 70 Städten war der Berliner WUD im Jahr 2005 mit mehr als 100 Besuchern ein großer Erfolg. Read More

This evening I ported a widget I wrote with HTML and javascript to Qt 4.2. I wrote this widget last year. It can show a timeline into which you can zoom by scrolling the mousewheel. This is useful for a number of things like calendar information, browsing files by creation date or size and as shown in this application, for looking at SVN commits. Read More

A left handed person asks on Slashdot about the difficulty of using a touch screen when the scrollbars are on the right hand side. When Alan Kay and others developed the original WIMP interface at Xerox PARC in the 1970s their systems always had the scrollbar on the left. For some reason Apple chose to move the scrollbar to the right, and everyone else, except NeXT just copied them. Read More

This blog is the first of a new series which goal is to make the world a better place using laughter ... so here today's joke :D Bill Clinton is placed against the wall, and just before the order to shoot him is given, he yells, "Earthquake!" The firing squad falls into a panic and Bill jumps over the wall and escapes in the confusion . Read More

A few weeks ago, I complained about the possibilities to align and group elements when designing KDE dialogs with Designer. But in order to make Designer better meet our requirements, we first have to define what KDE dialogs should look like: We need to define guidelines. Read More

So, the last two days I've been concentrating on introducing locking into the definition-use chain which I've been writing for KDevelop. I've taken quite a coarse-grained approach, with one lock for each document's chain, and with separate object local locks each time that an object can reference another object that is on a different chain. Read More

This time I am using the blog to ask for some help. I need someone who is able to convert HTML documentation about form desinger (one really important chapter from user's POV, about 35KB) to docbook for Kexi. Not much time left before the documentation freeze (friday evening, 8th sept). Read More

That's all I wanted to say! The details are on coverity.com - many thanks to those helped.

If more stuff like this emerges on the surface of news stories over the next few months, I'll be one of the next convert candidates to subscribe to some of the more "sensible" conspiration theories out there. One of them being, that the three (!) World Trade Center skyscrapers (WTC1 - 110 storeys, WTC2 - 110 storeys, WTC7 - 47 storeys) which came down in practically free-fall speed 5 years ago on 9/11, having turned 99% of their builtin concrete into very fine dust powder even long before hitting the ground... can't have been killed by a Kerosin fire alone (unless Allah changed some fundamental laws of Physics for that day),   but   rather   by   some   other,   frequently   operated   third   party   technology   ... as hinted to by some Ground Zero cleanup pictures as well. Read More

Sometimes you have to let the end-users themselves do the talking on why what we are creating is important for them. And member dylunio did exactly that on libervis.com Since academics don't have time to fight against the norm, which in their institutions are proprietary file formats, the only way I see to fix this problem is to change the norm. If the norm were to use free and open file formats such as the Open Document Format they would not be tied into an operating system. www.libervis.com/proprietary_file_format_lock_in Read More