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For those who are not familiar with it: ThreadWeaver is like a multi-threaded make tool for application developers. It provides means to chop operations into jobs and declare the way they depend on each other. When started, the jobs will be executed by a pool of threads, which will automagically try to find the most efficient order of execution. With the lately released version 0.5, it now has job collections, job sequences, and qtestlib based unit tests. Read More

In my last blog I said that I expected my KDE business cards within a couple of days. One day later Adriaan and Sebas got theirs. I live at the other end of the Netherlands, I'm a West Coast guy, and as we all know the Netherlands are a huge country. It's at least 150 km from Adriaan and Sebas to my place. cough How long would that take a postal service? Read More

I've recently been working 'over on the darkside', and have been getting QtRuby working with the GPL'd Qt 4.1.2 and mingw on Windows 2000. Several months ago Ryan Hinton got QtRuby working be generating the code for the Smoke library on Linux, and then hand hacking it to get it to build on Windows. So ever since I've been very keen to get it working - that is until the prospect of devoting an entire weekend or more to Windows programming, and not surprisingly I just kept putting it off. Fortunately, Caleb Tennis's company sponsored nearly two weeks of solid QtRuby development, and I was able to get an awful lot done, including a Windows port. Read More

I've been here in Gran Canaria for nearly six months now, and my spanish hasn't progressed as fast as I hoped it would. Learning another language is really hard! It makes me realise how tough it must be for non-native english speakers to contribute to english based Free Software projects such as KDE. Read More

Aaron took on his asbestos suite and made a case for Python as a VisualBasic replacement for the free desktop. Ok, let's give him some fire and play the "my language is better than yours" game. Read More

... and Aaron blogs about an entry in Murray Cumming's blog, I feel entitled to reply using my own :) Murray fears that from his point of view suboptimal choice will negatively impact the whole free desktop market and while his wording could be intentionally unpleasant about KDE, I guess that he actually believes it. Read More

Joining the announcements about presences at LinuxTag 2006 in Wiesbaden next week, let me spread that Novell will be back this year with a booth (hall 9, number 918). The openSUSE project will be presented, SUSE Linux 10.1 and the SUSE enterprise product line. Additionally thursday is the openSUSE day with 9 talks about the openSUSE project and SUSE Linux - to be found in the free conference program. If you're interested in working, doing an intership or writing your diploma thesis at SUSE research and development department visit the Novell booth on Thursday or Friday when the human resource department is available for questions. Read More

Since a week I've delved into a library the KOffice devs are creating; its called libFlake. The goal of the library is to have the best of both worlds from KWords frames and KPresenter shapes down to Karbons vector graphics. To do this we provide a low level object called a Shape and provide hooks for the high level stuff so they can be build on top. This way we can move shape-manipulation and shape-painting (including painting to PDF) for all KOffice applications into one library with the obvious advantage that any cool component build in a specific application will be really easy to reuse in other KOffice apps. Read More

This week I got a nice new toy to play with and hack... it's a Linksys WRTSL54G, and yes it run linux and it has an USB port so it can be used for storage like my Linksys NSLU2 ... the first thing I did was to build my own firmware (based on OpenWRT) ... it's not in service on my network yet because last time I had a WRT54G someone killed it so this time I will to a lot of testing ... Read More

Spring suddenly arrived also here in Poland. Not bad pretext to finally replace rather nice CRT with relatively awesome LCD. Too bad that win2k has no subpixel hinting. In software department, this week I got a message from Ralf Habacker who's persistently polishing kdelibs4/win32: Read More