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After 7 years with my own (almost famous ;-)) build scripts and almost a year with kde-build, I switched today to kdesvn-build (many thanks, mpyne). It's definitely worth it, be it only for the colored output and for the progression notification. And ah!, I also switched to unsermake. Read More

I had another interview lately and I'm still wondering why they always those stupid question like "Where do you see you in 10 years?" I find answering this type of question very very difficult, because it's so easy to give a wrong answer, the person in front of you, can believe anything from the lack of ambition to anything on the other extreme (if such thing as too much ambition can exists) so I tried to say that with the way the job market and the world is changing that I can't say anything about where I see myself in 10 years because it's too uncertain, but on the positive side I might be able to watch all the Star Wars movies (including the clone war cartoons) in the right order :) But it seems that I answered wrongly once again :D Read More

In general I like the idea of the Open Directory Project (dmoz), a community-edited directory of the web. The part I feel most important about is of course its KDE category. In the past I submitted several times new URLs and reported broken/changed URL and duplicates. But not so often anymore and that's not only because of the lack of time (in main parts due to countless other KDE-related stuff I'm doing): I didn't experience the category editor as very responsive. His decision to also add single pages of listed sites leads to a mess and those are the ones who are likely very soon outdated (anyone still interested in KOffice 1.1.1 release notes?). And for the major kde.org sites and close partners we always had the KDE Family Websites list, for applications and themes related stuff now kde-apps.org and kde-look.org exist and several other stuff like Reviews and Screenshots can be found linked in the KDE Wiki. Read More

Yes, it's already bad to be forced to own and run 16 different linux distros just so as to have one's application available for "linux". But it's even worse when there isn't an application at all. Read More

Last Friday (the 13th) was literally a black Friday for me. My car broke in the middle of my ride home and is broken beyond repair. Right on the freeway, involving a police car to protect me, my car and the ongoing traffic - the details would fill up two or three blog entries, but I'll spare you that stuff. So I'll get myself a BahnCard 50 now and try to be mobile by train. cough Read More

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Last month I've "stolen" code from KSpread's CSV import dialog, and now it's tweaked quite much: support for setting primary key (including autodetection) support for 'first row contains column names' flag (including autodetection) column types are autodetected Import is performed to a new table, within a single transaction, and (what's usual for Kexi) in a database-engine independent way, thanks to KexiDB layer. As an extension of above, support for pasting clipboard contents will be added. Read More

Do you know the feeling when your job just isn't fun because you have to come to work every day and hack at features you don't like or don't need or both? I DON'T! Read More

Living rooms are overrated. My next apartment is so going to have a studio / computer / theater room instead. My living room gets little use other than having hosted about half a dozen KDE folks for various lengths of time. But my bedroom is getting overcrowded. Read More

The last weeks have been amazing, this is the only word I can use to describe what happened in kdom/ksvg2/kcanvas development. KCanvas has been rewritten some weeks ago to go back from the old chunk-based rerendering algorithms to a new strategy, using z-ordered trees (well read the source :-) - it turned out to perform much faster, especially when panning/zoominf, it also simpified internal KCanvas code a lot, and yes it's much more OOP. Read More