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Once again I failed with my new year resolutions ... the first one didn't get pass January 1rst :) I decided to try to be less sarcastic/ironic ... and I failed at the new year party ... Read More

KPDF being merged into HEAD has been the talk of the IRC channels for a while, everyone is impressed. Here's the snazzy presenter mode: Someone must have been watching closely because today has popped up copies of an Acrobat Reader 7 beta for Unix, available to those hand picked by Adobe (or who know where to get it). It has the rendering speed advantage over kpdf but doesn't have the looks: to the surprise of most it uses GTK 2 and measures in at a whopping 110MB (it's not statically linked either and it is stripped). Read More

Yes, that's right folks, it's the Ministry of Silly Hats. A privileged few of you have been subjected to my gests on the acquiring of an appropriate sombrero de Tejas and well, guess what Santa Claus, err, mom, brought me this year? Read More

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

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