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Saturday, 25 March 2006

Back to the roots

Today apparently was board-gets-back-to-coding day. Since I was elected into the board of the KDE e.V. last summer in Malaga most of my KDE time is eaten by non-coding jobs. But today I had one of my productive days and got a lot of done on kxml_compiler and kxforms. It was a nice surprise when I noticed on the kde-commits mailing list, that Eva also was heavily committing code working on Konqueror/Embedded. Five minutes before midnight Aaron joined the fun with a Kicker patch. Huzzah! We are back to the roots. The board is still coding. Read More
Saturday, 25 March 2006

cmake && seg faults

Well, kdelibs4_snapshot compiles and installs with cmake. Almost, anyway... I had to remove kstyles/keramik since the genembed seg faults... ... and after installing kdelibs4_ss... % /opt/KDEDIRS/trunk/bin/kde-config --path Segmentation fault Urgh, I would rather have something NOT compile than have it seg fault... Read More
Saturday, 25 March 2006

Playing with Opera9's "Widgets"

Pipitas  | 
I should have been doing some serious work during the last 30 minutes, but.... ...I came across this weekend's Opera9 build (no. 181) and decided to make a new klik (*) recipe for it. Read More
Friday, 24 March 2006

How to simulate a slow network (after all, QT_FLUSH_PAINT=1 doesn't work with Qt3)

Pipitas  | 
I think it is time to reveal a nifty little tool that I like to simulate a slow network connection, even without a network. It is called "tc" (think "traffic control") and is present on every modern Linux system. It is part of the "iproute" or "iproute2" package. Read More
Friday, 24 March 2006

I should blog more often

I really should blog more often. My last blog has been over four months ago. And it's not like nothing happened since then. KDE promotion and marketing hasn't been so alive in years. After aKdemy Sebastian, Wade and me started the first Marketing Working Group and together with the help of several other people (notably, Tom, who has done a tremendous amount of work there) we launched SpreadKDE back last November. Read More
Friday, 24 March 2006

Power Qt

The Canberra LUG and the Department of Computer Science at the Australian National University (in particular, Bob and Steve) have done some very nice work with a couple of Power5 boxes that IBM has loaned out. Read More
Thursday, 23 March 2006

KDE 4 library development

Well, it's been ages since I've blogged - generally I feel that code speaks louder than blogs :) However, I think it's time to do some catching up. Currently the rest-of-kde porting is proceeding after the massive KAction changes I recently committed to kdelibs. Now that the snapshot carries the changes too, it's starting to get heaps of testing, which is so far standing up pretty well (only a few bugs reported to date, the significant bug already fixed). Read More
Tuesday, 21 March 2006

Back

Rockman  | 
Finally it seems that i've some time to spend even blogging.. it's a great progress from the previous months :) First of all.. yes, i left my job finally. Basically because i'm still a student.. it's quite impossible to finish university having a full time job.. and since it also wasn't exactly a nice job, i must admit, now i feel really better :) I started hacking again on kmobiletools. I had enough money to buy a new phone, a Samsung SGH Z140V. The really cool part is that a lot of features are currently unsupported, which makes a lot more interesting coding. It's a PDU able phone, so i was finally able to code a decent implementation of pdu encoding. Also, having 2 mobile phones (yes, i'm still feeling too attached to my old Moto C350, which has made kmobiletools born :P) gave me a nice idea: since i had both ttyACM0 and ttyACM1 busy, i had to find a way to avoid having them exchanged.. So now kmobiletools before loading a device checks for each possible target, looks for the mobile IMEI (if any), and then says "Here it is! Let's connect!". With this system i could also code a nice wizard, that seems very useful also for unexperienced users. Now i should start working on real life.. i'm still too late with studies.. and above all, i'm still single :\
Monday, 20 March 2006

Kbfx 0.4.9 Preview.

Siraj  | 
Overview As we know it's been some time since we released a stable version of kbfx. Lot of work has been going on behind the stage..I think users who came to kbfx.org know a lot about the upcoming kbfx version and it's state. but there are lot more who has no idea about kbfx 0.4.9 which we will release in 10 to 15 days from now. Read More
Monday, 20 March 2006

Template Olympics

I want to have an iterator with an encapsulated "next" function. These iterators will be returned from a class that knows how to advance over the data structure, but that should be completely hidden from the users of the iterator. Read More