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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

Ok, here's a little tip -- turn off your RSS feed before upgrading your blog software. Really. Please. For the sake of all things good and holy. It just happens to be Anders' feed today, but it seems like about every 2-3 days somebody decideds to upgrade their blog software, thus flooding the planet with everything that they've ever written. Read More

Recently it seem a lot of projects are switching to CMake. Just today I read the news about Debian forking cdrecord and almost missed the little note near the end of the article: "For our fork we used the last GPL-licensed version of the program code and killed the incompatibly licensed build system. It is now replaced by a cmake system," Read More

As part of the definition-use chain work that I have been doing for KDevelop, yesterday I wrote a browser for each document's chain. There was just one catch... none of the chain is protected for multithreaded access at the moment. Read More