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yeah i just could not resist http://www.planearium2.de/flash/sp-studio-e.html. now i can be like everybody else ;) at least now my avatar should not scare small children.

I've been messing with with idea of dynamically adding DCOP slots to a running DCOP server program. I've got a little server with a slot called 'eval()' which takes a string of ruby code and evaluates it as a sort of 'compile command'. So you send the new code for a dcop slot to the server, it evaluates it, and you can then invoke the new slot. Read More

This evening I went along to a Mac developers meeting. We were invited to sit in a circle and introduce ourselves one by one. "Hi, I'm Jessica and I'm a Linux geek and open source hacker. I don't use macs." Read More

When thinking about a future configuration system it's nice to have an idea about current usage patterns. So I did some measurements to see how many different configuration keys KDE applications look up when starting up. Some results: Read More

Our beloved news source Slashdot is reporting that Microsoft is about to help Ford to build cars that don't crash. The linked article on livescience reveals: "Eventually, Gates said, there could be a car that wouldn't let itself crash." Now, the obvious go to joke would be: "Right, this is the consequent development after they shipped the operating system that never crashes. Oh wait...". I would put it differently: "Thank god I don't own a Ford anymore..." Read More

Well... This year i intended to take vacations at mom's house, in a beatifull place called Florianópolis.. I scheduled my vacations to april, 3 and i was thinking that everything would go smooth until the week before arrived !! So, i was invited for 3 KDE, Desktop and Qt talks in this month. Ok, i thought, it's just 3. But ( always have a but ), i didn't imagine what's coming next.. Here's the itinerary: Read More

I watch since weeks output like this: Starting Subversion commit 371950 / 409201 Starting Subversion commit 371951 / 409201 Starting Subversion commit 371952 / 409201 Starting Subversion commit 371953 / 409201 Starting Subversion commit 371954 / 409201 Read More

Yesterday I suddenly realized with horror that I missed a trend: everyone seems to rewrite kcontrol or create mockups how it should look like but not me. :-) First I had to find a project name, I chose kcontrol5 because kcontrol3 and kcontrol4 already exist in kdenonbeta. After having this difficult task finished I created these mockups which meanwhile incorporate first feedback from #kde-usability. Read More

I asked Basse to make a nice logo and banner for the upcoming KDEPIM meeting. The cool little dragon seems to be crazy about KDEPIM (so are the PIM developers about Konqi I heard). Read More

The month of May has started with a big milestone: the approval of the OpenDocument 1.0 specification as an OASIS standard. Part of the credits for that go to our very own David Faure who has done a great amount of hard work in the OASIS OpenDocument Technical Commitee. The importance of a truly open file format for office documents can not be understated and the OASIS OpenDocument standard helps to bring competition back to office applications. I expect the OASIS OpenDocument standard to make headlines in the near future as it has been eagerly awaited by governments around the world. Read More