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My first project in KDE was maintaining KOffice. This was years ago already. Later I was forced to use Java at work and have been doing that for some 6 years now. I recently left that job, but I still have a nice chunk of work from that job available as an open source project I started and worked on during that time together with some colleagues and volunteers. Read More

Tommorow we are having a BBQ with people of KDE-NL. We did this before and we agreed to have a bbq each year during summer. Rinse is our host this year. As he is a cook, I have high expectations of this year's bbq. Anyway I need to travel (by car) to Bolsward, the North of the Netherlands and crossing The Afluitdijk. I am looking forward seeing my KDE friends again. Also some new faces will be there as well and even some KDE oldies (Hi Otto). Read More

Yesterday I was happy to get a nice news, my talk about M2 for akademy was accepted. So I imagine it might be a wise for me to finaly say what M2 is really is. So here I go: M2 is a generic framework for kde to help for systems management, application, update and security fixes deployment, user management etc ... Read More

I'm happy about the whole bunch of applications which are nowadays available for people's daily tasks: Whether you want to play music, burn CDs, chat, send instant messages, read RSS feeds, manage your photos, keep your money together, draw a mindmap or download a Torrent - there is a KDE-based and nicely integrated solution available. Read More

A couple of weeks ago I was curious about the differences between Apple's kjs and our own and decided to download Webkit and do a diff. It turned out that there is still a substantial gap between both trees that will be very hard to fix. Read More

As I said before, I'm ringed now. Our families and friends joined us celebrating our love. Two days later we made a trip to Rome and everyone claiming it is cool, was damn right. It wasn't even too hot as many claimed, at least I consider it more awful back in Nuremberg where it's the same temperature, but doesn't cool down towards the evening. Anyway, we visited all the places one has to visit and had a lot of fun making pictures, so we have plenty of material to bore grandchildren later. Read More

This past Sunday (July 10) i finally released KDE 3.4.1 for Solaris 10, for both Intel/AMD and UltraSPARC-II. Both of them built with the Sun Studio 10 compilers. Yes, you can install Solaris 10 on an Intel based PC and run KDE 3.4.1 on it. Pentium IV minimum, or AMD. Or UltraSPARC-II minimum. Read More

It seemed I made a wish of some people from the usability folks come true. Presenting: my first approach of a CollapsibleWidget! The same dialog with two filled and one empty collapsable item on Linux, OS X and Windows: Read More

On Jan 4th, 1999, the kde-common/accounts file was created by Stephan Kulow, but the idea is attributed to David Faure (no blog). After threatening removal of accounts for people who didn't report in, the kde-common/accounts file was created with 180 names. Read More

It's no overstatement to say that last week was one of the worst in my entire life. First, Saturday night, both of my bikes were stolen in front of my house (sometimes, Berlin sucks!). On Tuesday, after a business meeting in Munich, our airplane was cancelled. The substitute airplane had less rows than the original one making us feel like anchovies in a can. Even worse, on Wednesday, my hard disk crashed leaving a number of bad sectors where my home directory used to be. Hah - what a luck I did a BACKUP two weeks ago! Read More