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As some might know, KBattleship was Niko and my first application in KDE CVS. Today, I saw some commits to it again. It's unbelieveable that people kept working on it, even added new features like the DNS-SD support that was recently checked in. I was looking at the code and felt totally embaressed - ill-named classes, heavy pointer abuse, unused layouts, lack of appropriate data structures, just to name a few of our sins. So I want and fired up vim. Read More

The other week I wrote about the 'Object Inspector' features of the KDevelop Ruby Debugger that make use of the various sort of Qt runtime metadata and show it in the debugger's Variable Tree. I thought it would be nice to have something similar for debgging C++ programs. Read More

I returned from The Netherlands yesterday. Fun was had. First, I got myself an insane haircut. Then, I saw Sirenia (and also Tiamat, Pain, and Theatre of Tragedy). I sure do hope they come to England soon; it's difficult having to fly to the continent just to fulfill my obsession. Yes, I was in the front row. Read More

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