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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

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