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Lately, I was even more bored than usual. so I decided to check what I had on old backup tapes and I found a lot of applications I wrote for DOS in Clipper (the xbase compiler) and I thought that some of them are worthy of being "modernized" I know some linux based xBase compilers, xharbour ( www.xharbour.org) Clip (http://www.itk.ru/english/index.shtml) but they compile the clipper code to C and use a vm ... I thought it would be fun (I know I have a weird definition of fun) to hook one of them to GCC 4.1 ... Read More

Link to My Home page for More screenshots After seeing cairo clock.. I wanted to simulate the same thing using Qt4 .. just to show how simple it is to do it with new Qt 4.1.1. it's a matter of getting a transparent widget (using few Xlib commands and drawing on it with QPainter paint commands (Clock hands and Clock face) with Time. and I was amazed by the smooth ness and the images quality of the output and also the speed at it was happening.Most of all it's almost Zero length code to achive this effect (less than 400 lines) and the Clock glass is drawn using only Qt4 paint commands. I'm going to place some screenshots and also the source for this simple two classed clock whitch is a nince a eye -kandy, too sad to send it to trash can I shoudl some make it more usable!. I think this also shows that wonder full things to come with KDE 4 UI's and widgets .. and plasma. Read More

I'm suffering from another CUPS+KDE frustration right now. Today I learned that there are two bug reports in our bugzilla which I had missed to see before. They were submitted by Mike Sweet from CUPS. See yourself: #115891 and #124157. The first one was submitted last November, the other one a few days ago. Read More

I'm sorry to disappoint all other parents of the world, but I'm now the proud father of Clara, the cutest baby to have ever appeared on earth :-) In case you do not believe me, here is a proof: Read More

A few weeks ago, Jonathan had asked me on IRC in passing why kprinter and KDEPrint 3.5.1 didn't work with CUPS-1.2. My reply had been like "CUPS-1.2 hasn't even released an alpha or beta tarball -- w.t.h. does Ubuntu Dapper plan to include an SVN version of a piece of core software which has a yet unknown release date??" Of course, this is not Jonathan's personal field of work -- Kubuntu just inherits the CUPS version and setup which the Ubuntu main developers decided for. Read More

It has been a long time since I've posted something here. I've had things that I've wanted to post but pretty much all of my time has gone to working on the Guidance tools for the coming Dapper release of Kubuntu. Thank gawd Dapper has been delayed. I can (am!) really use the extra time for polishing and debugging. It looks like Dapper is going to be an awesome release and will work a lot smoother than the current release (Breezy). Read More

There's hidden easter egg in recent Kexi SVN version. Just create a new table design and name it "sudoku" and you'll get a nice game for free... Thanks to ksudoku author for the code ;)

I will be to the Printing Summit in Atlanta in a few days. Then I will be at the LinuxWorld Conference in Toronto in a few weeks. The work required before (and for) these is much more than I thought and planned initially. But it's worth it. Read More

I'm finishing my leave of absence and going back to work. Yes, doing what I wanted was great, but the pay was miserable. So I'll be going back to Trolltech. It looks like Trolltech will pay me to go to Calgary and work on Plasma with Aaron for a bit, which is just great. Plus apparently the love of my life is in Calgary. I know what you're thinking "Zack, but they have Snapple ice-tea everywhere", yes, but not Kinder Bueno's. You don't know love unless you've tried Snapple's lemon ice-tea with a kinder bueno. Let me just point out that our relationship is purely platonic. Read More

I finally got some time to spend on KDE last weekend, so on Sunday I started working on a new binding generator for KJSEmbed on Qt 4. In the KDE 3 version I used Doxygen to generate XML output then processed that with XSLT (using xsltproc) to produce the C++ code for the bindings. Unfortunately this provded to be a bit too inflexible, and difficult for other developers (who weren't familiar with XSLT) to work on. The new code uses KJSEmbed's DOM bindings to process the Doxygen output and seems to be a lot easier to work with - [mX] was making improvements within a few hours of the first commits. This also means we might be able to make the bindings self-hosted in KDE 4 which would be nice. Read More