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So, I'm writing this entry from aKademy -- all thanks to the eV for giving me a subsidy so I could come over here and speak about freedesktop.org. If you see a tall Aussie guy with a beard and short, spiky hair wandering around looking confused because he didn't have enough time to learn German before left, and you want to talk to him about freedesktop.org, or just say hi, please grab him and talk to him. Apparently he's a pretty cool dude. :) Read More

Tonight I got my new laptop, which HP offered at a very very low price. My own laptop, finally! That was a dream I actually had since a long time, but I never got to buy one because it was "too expensive". Only wireless doesn't work yet, but there are rumors that there is a driver for that. Read More

I'm attending the whole day the KDE e.V. meeting since 10am and it's still continuing (now 5.30pm). Luckily there was a long midday break with free delicious food (four possible choices including one vegetarian) at "Blauer Engel" restaurant sponsored by IBM. Several attendants have their notebooks in front of them and are connected to Internet via cable or wifi and while listening or sometimes talking and voting in-between doing other stuff: Some watch the reactions to the KDE 3.3 release, read email, code or blog. :-) Others are chatting about what they hear on #aKademy channel at irc.kde.org. So if you want to participate remotely (recording/streaming is still being set up) or have questions about travel, location or organization consider to join and we may be able to help immediately. In short interesting but also exhausting - and the public 9 day program does not start until tomorrow. Let's hope everything works fine tomorrow with most attendees having been arrived and that the fun to work ratio increases. Read More

I was at a train station in a town called Heidelburg at about 4:00 this morning on my way to akademy, having not slept for 20 hours at this point and I'm trying to work out the German train system where one machine charged me €14 and another wanted to charge me €49 when a man wanders up to me and says that "I look poor" and would I like some money. I assured him that I wasn't in any real need for money just now and he wanders off. Not long later when I'm on (the wrong) train when he taps on the window and gives me 20 euro, mutters something about god and wanders off. Read More

It's been a little while since I posted what I've been up to, so here's an update. I've been busy at work, so I've had less time for KDE than I would have liked, but even so I've made good progress on kasbar 3. One of the projects I've been working on in my day job will also be open source and may be of interest to some people. Read More

A couple of weeks ago I was waiting at the Frankfurt airport for a connection flight to Nürnberg. I had three hours to wait and so I was sitting at the gate hacking on Plutimikation. At some time a guy waiting at a table nearby for another flight came to me and asked if I would be a KDE developer. I was surprised. It turned out that he was a greek translator and recognized me because of the KDE logo on my bag. It's amazing that the KDE community now seems to be big enough so that you can meet KDE people by accident at some random place in the world. The project world domination seems to proceed well ;-) Read More

So I'll jump into the car in the next minutes. The plan is to arrive at wheels place somewhat before 10. I really hope at least Aaron will open the doors, or else... ;-) We will then arrive in LuBu in the afternoon. Fun, yay! :) Read More

Today Ossi and I arrived together at aKademy in Ludwigsburg. The organization room seems to be the busiest place at the moment, full with working people, sleepy North Americans, loaned hardware (refrigerators, laptops, network and sound equipment) and delivered merchandizing stuff. I also went around a bit to take photos of the outside, "our" cinema and the yard where the social events will take place. Read More

Don't worry annma, your not the only one missing the conference. I'm going to be stuck enjoying the thunderstorms here in Manchester.

Just came across this article via msdn, C++: The Most Powerful Language for .NET Framework Programming. Microsoft seems especially pleased with their new version of Managed C++. They've done a complete revamp of their previous .NET support for C++ and submitted it to ECMA and ISO as a standard. This brings C++ inline with C# as far as first class support for the Common Language Runtime. I really like what they've done to improve the C++ experience for .NET, but still think it will be incredibly hard to adapt the Qt/KDE libraries to fit into this framework. Consider this annoyance, the new proposed standard mandates PascalCase be used for the core API. For a technical challenge you'd have to consider how to integrate MOC and the new C++.NET properties. Read on. C++.NET properties: property String^ Name { String^ get() { return m_value; } void set( String^ value ) { m_value = value; } } Q_PROPERTY: Q_PROPERTY( QString name READ name WRITE setName ) void setName( QString name ); QString name() const; Read More