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... and the nice thing about it is that the final touches of the work has been done during the "Knoppix Remastering" tutorial at aKademy, held by Klaus Knopper himself. I am really looking forward to see the FreeNX server written by Fabian Franz running from CD. I guess a lot of people will be vexed about their own ignorance having so long dismissed NX for reasons which will now appear just ridiculous to everybody who looks at the actual source code of FreeNX server. Read More

It was great to have the DevConf being fed by IBM sponsoring a "Free Lunch for Free Software developers". Actually, what the food voucher said was "Big Blue and Blue Angel happily invite you for a free lunch". If you dont know what "Blue Angel" is -- it is the translation of the name of the Bistro associated to Filmakademie... Read More

Unfortunately I couldnt attend any of the talks at DevConf other than the fine opening keynote by Eirik Chamb-Eng (Trolltech). Too much work to do, too much of a cold having occupied the deep end of my throat. The cold makes my voice sound like I could have a lot of guys drifting towards me -- if I were a female. It also makes me sweat the hell out of my pores at night, preventing me from sleep most of the time, and getting me to arrive late at aKademy. The work was mainly related to prepare the tutorial rooms, get the HP notebooks in shape, and hand them out to developers in need. A lot of the work around the notebook installation was done by our local helper team, consisting mostly of the local CCC -- thanks and kudos to them! The notebooks are a loan from HP Germany for the duration of aKademy. Thanks HP -- it is great to see your support for this KDE conference having grown so immensely in the last 2 weeks. Read More

The conference is over. We had a lot of good talks. It was interesting and it was fun. Now we are heading for the coding marathon and the evening promises that this will be even more fun. Read More

I decided to come to aKademy about a week and a half ago, and am so pleased I did. But travelling there was a disaster; I tried to save 10 UKP by flying with KLM via Schipol, Amsterdam, rather than direct from Heathrow. Big mistake! The flight to Amsterdam was two hours late, and by the time it finally got there, my connecting flight to Stuttgart had already gone. Then I found out that it was the last one of the day, and I would have to wait for a 9:20 am flight the following morning, getting me into Ludwigsburg about lunchtime. Read More

OK, I'm at aKademy, and am enjoying it a lot. I particular enjoyed the talk by Tom Chance on KDE Quality Teams, and Matthais Ettrich's talk on Qt API design. It would be good to see the rest of Matthais' talk - perhaps it could be re-run during the coding marathon. Read More

It's been a great day here in Ludwigsburg. Lots of interesting talks and people. I've written up the talks I went to at Talks @ aKademy. Scott's metadata ideas are ambitious but necessary. Making all files have metadata and be searchable is great, it shouldn't be easier to find things on the web than on your own computer as he said. And if search sorts out KControl that will be just great. Read More

Today I've finished KTextEditor::CodeCompletion and PopupMenu interfaces for Kyzis text editor (those who don't know about the editor should visit http://www.yzis.org). Now the editor works like a charm with KDevelop. Vi(m) fans should check for a first IDE with vi-like text editor ;) Editor is still in development but it's in a good shape now, everyone interested is welcome to try it out and help the development of an editor itself and a kdevelop integration process ;) Read More

It seemed like a lot cooler idea when I submitted it. In the end, my talk was an ugly mix of the wrong material for the audience and some bad presentation skills. An accent people weren't really getting it either. Read More

Further to my last entry, I was wandering to the hostel yesterday evening when I passed a woman who said something in German to me. "Sorry I don't speak German" I said as I passed and she replied "Sir sir! we have a newspaper in Stuttgart that you can sell, they give it to you free to make money". Genuinely, she said this. Read More