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In the last post I blogged about database table schema (design) altering features of the forthcoming Kexi 1.1 (to be released soon in alpha version). I promised to extend that story by presenting how all of this plays with GUI. In the meantime I've decided to take a break from this laborious task and finish the long standing TODO: implement the Object data type allowing to deal with binary data and force the Image Box widget to accept such sort of data. Read More

I'm in Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) this week for work. I'd hoped to catch up with Hamish Rodda, but he's in Norway. Sounds like the flights (36 hours?) might have been a bit harsh, but there is certainly a lot of interesting stuff coming out of Trysil. Read More

Last week I went to UK Unix Users Group's Linux 2006 conference to talk about KDE and Kubuntu and watch a bunch of other talks. First talk was from Tethys who tried to convince us that sed was good for more than s/foo/bar, seems not worth the hassle to me. Torsten Spindler showed off his video masking privacy feature which detects when someone has walked into a CCTV shot and pixilates that are so you can't see who it is. A loud person from Novell talked about their desktop work by starting his talk saying he didn't mind what desktop people used and then went on to talk about Gnome, he didn't even have KDE highlighted in the list of projects Novell hires key people in, the other Novell attendee didn't pretend and just said that they had picked Gnome as their desktop to promote. That there are people in Novell who deliberately ignore the excellent work their company puts into KDE (like sponsoring KDE Four Core) is a shame and they'll loose out because of it. Read More

This evening in Trysil we had a long meeting to discuss goals for KDE 4.0, both generally and specifically. Topics covered did not contain many surprises, most issues were already covered in the planning documents already existing in the wiki and svn. Prioritising our time is of course important, and in rough descending order they were thought to be: Read More

Got into Trysil, Norway for KDE Four Core at 10pm and it was still sunny. Now (00:17) it's still quite light outside which is playing silly beggars with my head, I've lost the ability to speak German. Anyway, I'm here to work on Akonadi, Solid's networking support and any other jobs that come up. The team that the Technical Working Group have assembled here are a highly motivated group and we're going to work our socks off for eight days to get kdelibs to a position where the rest of the KDE community can pick it up and start to write KDE 4 apps without the rules changing every week. Read More

Here in sicily summer is really something you wanna escape from... especially when you CAN'T go to the sea (even if it's less than 1 KM from you) 'cause you should study. The "geek" answer: Update: since it's getting even hotter, and since i've found 2 bigger (9.something CM) fans, this is the result: Update2: happy (hot) birthday to me :)

This morning, Trolltech released the Technical Preview 1 for Qt 4.2. Along with the many long-awaited features, you can even find the QtDBus module as part of the standard release. Yes, yes, I know they're mad :-) Read More

Ola! So my return from GUADEC got shorted when the Seniorita at the Delta-air check-in counter looked at my passport and wondered why the laminated picture-ID part wasn't attached to the rest of the thing. I wondered along with her. Apparently dutch passports often break down like this if you tend to sit on them. The implication was that I wouldn't be able to get into the US with a passport like that. After rebooking my flight to Monday (cancelations willing I might even have a chance for a fight tomorrow) it was off to the dutch consulat here in Barcelona to get some replacement papers. Friendly people over there as well but still a bit of a scramble to get new passport-photos before they closed down for siesta. With no minutes to spare I made it back with new pictures of myself. It must be said that I look a bit overheated on them. Read More

I hate moving. I've lost the grace with which I was able to execute such during my early 20s. Oh, I'm looking forward to being in Berlin, but fear and loathing is sinking in as I look at the mess that is my apartment and realize that it has to be fully packed, moved out of and clean in something like 39 hours. I suppose I can see where my true loves are in the pile of instruments (9 now), hundreds of CDs and records, assorted pro-audio equipment and naturally a pile of computer gear. And books. Lots of books. Read More

If I should name the reason which most extended my university visit I might mention XBlast. ;-) What is XBlast? XBlast is a X11 multiplayer game inspired by the classic game Bomberman (known in Europe as Dynablaster). If you don't know it (are you under twenty?), it's a strategic, maze-based computer game with your avatars running around either alone or in teams and pushing soon exploding bombs at each other. It has no 3D or superb graphics - its sole attraction, like so many vintage games, is the fun it makes playing it with your friends. Read More