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First, if anyone over at planetkde is reading this... I can't seem to get clee's attention. I need him to change the URL of my blog there. Now that I've been mentioned in Aaron's blog I feel like a VIP (Very Important Person/Programmer). Yes, the APIDOX error reporting is now all beautified. I wrote some perl that takes the doxygen error logs and converts into our defacto standard html report format. Hope this helps. And while your over at The EBN, don't forget to check out what the "Krazy Code Checker" thinks about your favorite source code. I wrote the krazy tool too.. with lots of inspiration from Ben Meyer's testscripts. Contact me if you want to help write some krazy code checking plugins (in perl, python, ruby, ...)

This is my first blog entry in a long, long time. And I will use the occassion to praise and thank the digiKam developers for their wonderful application. I hadn't used digiKam for some time, but yesterday several dozen digital pictures I needed to resize, crop, enhance, and email to family. digiKam made the entire process easy and fun to do. A joy. Thanks again digiKam team!

During last weekend I managed to find some time to continue developing the web interface for digikam that I mentioned in a previous blog entry, so I added some new features: Read More

With a 7-days delay, here is what I still remember ;-) of my activity at LWCE Toronto 2006. I went there pushed by George Staikos (who couldn't go this year) and sponsored by the organizers (Plum Communications of Canada). Read More

I guess you all already knew about it, but just in case you didn't: KDE is participating again in the Google Summer of Code. So, submit all of those ideas that you had but never had had the courage to start working on! Read More

Since my previous machine heated too much and crashed all the time, my employer (KDAB) got me a new HP Pavillion t3350 machine, with a dual-core Athlon 64 X2 (M) 3800+ 2.0 GHz CPU - very nice :) Read More

The usual suspects of the KDE crew arrived in Wiesbaden/Germany (near Frankfurt) last night; we did some initial work in setting up the booth and finished up this morning before the crowds arrive. Here is a nice pic of what our booth looks like. Yes this is before any visitors were allowed on the floors; I'm pretty sure it will be more crowded after that ;) Read More

The last couple of months I have worked on the openSUSE Build Service. The goal of the Build Service is to make it dead easy for developers to provide installable packages of their software on a broad variety of distributions. We presented a first preview at FOSDEM. At the Linuxtag 2006, which takes place later this week in Wiesbaden, we will show the current state. On Thursday, May 4th, there is a complete openSUSE track. I will give a talk about the Build Service architecture. You are invited. Don't miss the opportunity to learn about this exciting project. Read More

Last year I completed the Google SoC with an entry about CSS 2.1 in KHTML printing. The project was a great succes despite low visability. (You can see the result by printing documents in Konqueror and notice that headers usually follows their bodies and text is rarely broken so one line is left alone a page). Read More

Some things never change, and the recent discussions about a possible 'new VB' for the Linux Desktop reminded me of this excellent article by Aaron Sloman (my philosphy/AI professor from 1976 to 78 while I was a Philosophy undergraduate at Sussex University). He describes the history of teaching Pop-11, and the reasons for choosing it. When he talks about Algol 68, it could just as easily be C# or C++, and when he talks about Pop-11, you can just substitute Ruby (or Python), and the arguments still make perfect sense. Here are some extracts.. Read More