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Ok, so as has been mentioned a handful of times, I'm headed to Chile for a while. I'm looking forward to it and my talk there (summary is slightly out of date, the talk won't be identical to my aKademy talk). See everyone in October! Read More

With the release of Xorg 6.8 I decided I ought to work out how to get the fancy trasparent windows stuff working so I could demo it at the expo in London next month. I wrote a short guide. Read More

One thing I always come back from the KDE meetings in Europe from is how friggen spread out the US developers are. Every year Zack and I try to get a few east coast KDE devels together for a hackfest. Last year we had a cool meeting with Adam and Hammish, but ironicly Zack could not make it... Read More

Howdy, this is my first KDE developers blog entry! I got into KDE development because I had a feature I asked to be implemented in KonsoleKalendar -- the itch. Cornelius asked me if I wanted to work on that feature... so I did -- the scratch. So now I'm the KonsoleKalendar co-maintainer along with Tuukka Pasanen. KonsoleKalendar is a CLI program so it doesn't seem to get much attention and it has suffered from lack of attention recently but it is a handy utility. I'm happy to say that I've helped to implement new features like inserting and deleting and modifying events, and also adding new export formats. And, of course, I've fixed a bunch of bugs too. Check it out help:konsolekalendar There are two projects I want to get back to work on: Read More

Yes, first part of my QKW patches are merged with first few (most hardcore/lowlevel) KDElibs directories. Beside Kexi, that's what I am playing with since march 2003. Everyone is invited to contribute. Read More

Do you remember my blog entry about the software developer who put days of effort into a new version but then failed to raise the hour to properly announce his software (btw, meanwhile he has stopped its development without clear rationale)? Something similar can be watched in parts with some KDE software. Read More

I just added features regarding the C# bindings to the 3.4 feature list. As 95% of the major work towards the new super spiffy Qt# bindings is done, I figured it was time to set some goals for getting all of this in shape for a KDE release. For those curious about the current state of my bindings (as opposed to the other C# bindings efforts) this kind of stuff is working now. For those confused by all the myriad twists and turns of the various C# bindings efforts here is a short history: Read More

Time passes by too quickly for me to remember what I fixed the last week within icecream. But for the RPM changelog I need to know, so I looked for some tool to create Changelog files from cvs history and found the perfect one: cvs2cl.pl Read More

I thought this would be a good moment to blog. So you ask .. why? Well, I began rebuilding kde from scratch, and I reached to kdepim. Yes, you guessed. I spent the last 2 hours fixing the build, and still haven't fixed it :) First it was unsermake problem, now kconfigs don't build, dirs don't get build in the right order... So I got no e-mail, no konvi, addressbooks ... to sum it up, I'm un-PIMized, disconnected from the rest of the world Read More

So, I suppose I should chime in with an aKademy post too. I did two presentations there -- the latter with Christian from GStreamer / Fluendo. Search / Metadata talk Both went well, in my opinion, though the first had a frustrating number of technical problems. However it seemed to generate quite a bit of thinking and publicity. It was entertaining to see it show back up for our news syndication thing at work. It seems like of the talks at the conference it may have generated the most mainstream PR. And also it was exciting to flesh out some more of the ideas throughout the week and to start to turn them into an API. There are a lot of cool ideas there and I think that we're just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of the interface possibilities that are opened up by a "searchable web of relationships" inside the desktop. Read More