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Finally time to write a first entry. There have been so many things to do lately, which means that I won't get bored - though my head may explode :) Read More

Jorge says "there is no Free equivalent to MS Exchange". I recommend Kolab which recently released it's second major version and is in heavy use by various branches of the German government. Quite why certain other groupware servers get much more attention before they've even made a release I'm not sure (not providing RPMs as their Debian packages could have something to do with it of course :)

For everyone's blaming me not blogging for some time, i wouldn't feel good to write anything before recently changes. Too much work, not good days, even hard to get a good mood to work on KDE, but... Well, last happy weekend i saw a lot of movies, from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, with an great Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet to American Splendor, another amazing picture retracting some part of United States culture, and have the presence of Crumb ( anyone who read cartoons MUST know him ) as a crucial part of the history, to the terrible but brilliant Der Untergang ( Downfall ), an crude and too alive picture from the last days of Hitler on Berlim saw by eyes of persons not biased by second war cruelty, making his point of view unique Three complete different pictures, and for me, which most came to my attention was soundtracks. all perfect in their context. Of course i'm gone to find some of the tracks. One in special, from American Splendor, was an old latin tecnopop hit called Silent Morning ( Noel ). This is a well fitted song for today, when 80's is around everywhere, and i would really like to listen more of same style ( not genre now ). So i'm gone for the first obvious channels, google and amazon. I got some results from google, like having time references from the 80's, some top hit songs, but even in the 20 first hits i couldn't find the info i needed. Charts from those times are very hard to find and sometimes inacurate. So, i gone to Amazon to see what buyers bought togheter with Noel CD. I got some interesting references, like Stevie B's and Johnny O's, which record lead me to TKA and other's. So ok. Now i got some more references. But all this references are from available cd's on amazon. I would like to try singles that probably never would be released on cd and maybe ( i said maybe ) some "genious" from music industry put him available on download. So, next try ? Audioscrobbler. Terrible idea. Too many references from people who listened Noel, including crap brazilian funk music ( Funk Pancadão on local language ). Not works for who want some basic results. So i decided not follow the users path ( even on google all the results lead me to make cross references on user indications ). Now it's time to find by genre. So i gone to insane and funny Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music and let them point me the genre of this kind of song. Was nice since i could remember and listen for the good old hip-hop like Grandmaster Flash and Sugarhill Gang. Backing to the genre, i thought was some kind of Miami Bass, but no. Neither Electro Funk ( hail George Clinton ). Electro is getting near and links moved me to SynthPop ( Human League anyone ? ). So after inumerous references, guess what style most fits on my needs ? Freestyle. Can you imagine how easy is to find something based on "freestyle" genre ?. So, getting the point. We have a lot of information available around internet, lot of ways to search, and even users cross references, but NONE way to find this in an easy method whithout leading you to make a personal data mining. I got something like 20 songs after all this searchs, and takes me a time that a not obstinated computer geek would take. There's still too much things to research and develop. That's a fact Read More

Boudewijn mailed me about a Krita hackfest which is taking place soon in the Netherlands (we keep you posted). It would be a cool and fun idea to have some shirts the hackers could wear during this hackfest. So I contacted the KDE-Artists on IRC (#kde-artists). Nuno promptly took the job of creating a cool design for a shirt. Thanks Nuno! Read More

I need a name for it. so anyone who have ideas you're welcome. (probably the shortest blog :)

Beineri talks in his latest blog entry about some applications we are missing in KDE. Please check KDE-apps-org where you can find a blog client called PyQLogger. This blog client is written in PyQt by Reflog and Xander (suse rpm). Also I like Bram's suggestion of having an application like workrave. Perhaps it is time for Aktivity now!

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).

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