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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 ;)

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

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