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I've packed for my flight leaving tomorrow. Noatun 3 ("make-it-snow") made serious progress today. Photobook got its final TODO completed (just in time for the freeze). I fixed my first khtml bug. Read More

Umbrello UML Modeller 1.4 has gained tabbed diagram layout and entity relationship diagrams for databases as well as a tonne of fixes and XMI compatibility from Oliver. The ER diagrams stuff is quite basic at the moment and we could really do with some help, you don't have to be the world's best programmer just willing to spot the missing features (SQL generation please) and add it. Read More

I've downloaded the Qt 4 beta 1 and briefly played with the new Qt Designer, and had a look at what the code generated by the moc looks like to see if there might be any problems integrating slots/signals with bindings. Read More

I've been working on the QtRuby and Korundum bindings full time for nearly a year and a half now, and I'm really pleased how well it's turned out. It's been my ambition to create a development environment for about 20 years or so, and it's a great feeling to have to think 'how an earth could I ever top this?'. Lots things have turned out better than I ever could have expected; such as total completeness the Smoke library in its coverage of the Qt and KDE apis. Or the fact that the whole of Smoke is autogenerated directly from the headers - something I would have never thought possible three years ago. Read More

2004 has gone. Nice end-of-year celebrations like Christmas, time to spend with family. Got some neat gifts, like a coffee machine to make real coffee. Scott complained while being in Chile about we drinking nescafe. New year was also cool, had a nice dinner with family and cousins and then I went to a cool party in a big house. Unlimited bar and good music. Read More

Why we need to had such disclaimer to an ad? Are we regressing back to the ape? Are the average intelligence of people so low that my cat is now an higher form of intelligence? With those kind of disclaimer we enable people to stop thinking because we are covering every aspect of their life ... anyway Happy new year everybody, even those who need such disclaimer ... sigh Read More

I spent the last days in Berlin, joining the folks at the 21. Chaos Communication Congress (dubbbed "21C3" for that matter). Besides attending some highly interesting talks this was a very welcome way to not only meet the "usual suspects" from the KDE and GNOME camp, but also to make new friends, share new ideas and discuss things. The athmosphere was awesome, albeit unfortunately only as in feeling, not as in breathing (unless you like lung cancer). Read More

I've been looking at some of the bug reports lately and I noticed something weird. People are getting outright hostile when their wishlist items are closed as WONTFIX. I mean, that was always the case, but it's been happening a lot more frequently lately. It's really bothering me that people like Coolo, Aaron, Lubos and many others are getting a lot of heat for closing stupid reports. Maintaining applications like KWin, Kicker or KDesktop is really an ungreatful activity. So if you see a guy who wanted to have a girlfriend simulator in KDE, or something equally silly, insulting one of the developers (who are usually your very good friends) you just want to smack him (the bad kind of smacking - the kind that's not ended by "who's your daddy?" screams) Read More

On Tuesday of next week, I'm off for the Netherlands! I hope I'll get to see some snow there. Last friday, the tickets for the Sirenia (I mean, Tiamat) gig showed up. Furthermore, I found the web site for PAIN, which doesn't really help as the links to the samples are all broken. Today, Stefan and I had a vast discussion (argument) over the design of Noatun 3 (which is currently being developed in the make-it-snow branch of cvs). I want the playlist to be directly manipulated when you go to another song or whatnot, Stefan seemed to disagree. Turns out we agreed almost entirely and so then I just had a few minor suggestions to make to his refactorings. I haven't been developing much KDE stuff at all recently, so upon completion of my current uni course work, my plan will be: Read More

The one thing I love about any holidays is the spare time. As some of you may know last week I started the kde-graphics-devel list. It's a huge relief for me because I felt bad about not having enough time to answer all the emails I was getting about image effects, new widgets and just a lot of KDE graphics related coding. Read More