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Yeah, it looks for me like deja vu: one day Sun introduced OpenOffice.org, more recently IBM presented Eclipse (development environment). Why I am talking about this here, you may ask? I am not too big enthusiast of Java and Java-related tools/technologies, even if in ancient times I've tried IBM's Visual Age, for Java and Smalltalk, IIRC. However my work is somewhat related to 1) openoffice.org 2) Kexi (and also more-and-more reusing/sharing bits of KDevelop). So, I've subjective feelings about oo.org and Eclipse: Read More

I did a talk to Edinburgh GNU/Linux Users Group and again to Tayside KGX Users Group this week past. Discussed how to become a KDE Developer, some nice KDE features and software patents (EU elections tomorrow and this weekend, please vote Europeans). I have just put up the quickly put together slides. Read More

In the recent Poll on KDEPims release schedule I wanted to answer, but realized the answer is not that simple; and KDE has been running in the same circle for too long to see that there have been developments out there which change the release stuff completely; in other words, time for my first BLog here :) Read More

Ok, I got tired of the old file-name based background image selection, so I hacked up something to use the (first line of) comment in the JPEG meta data. [image:477] Read More

I added support for receiving bold, italic, and underline text in yahoo today. It was pretty easy. The next step is to now implement the sending of it, which will probably be a tad harder, especially considering how brain-dead some clients tend to be when handling rich text. Should be lots of fun. I've decided that i'm going to try and write here more often. Now let's just hope I have more interesting things to write about. :-) Read More

Last night I was able to commit to CVS the first cut of a kjsembed app I'm working on that will be useful to anyone - even if they don't care about scripting. The app I'm talking about is called Imunge and is intended to be a styleguide compliant tool for manipulating images. Read More

I've been thinking for quite some time on how to install multiple distributions onto a single hard disk. At the moment, my sole reason for doing this would be to troubleshoot bugs on the various distributions since some of them seem to be distribution specific, and I'm sure I'll find other uses later. I'm pretty sure I've got a decent idea for booting things in my head, it should be pretty easy, and sharing a boot partition should be a piece of cake. I have a few ideas for how I can share certain things from the home directory as well. Perhaps when I feel like being without a system for a few days, I'll give it a whirl. Here's the distributions I was thinking of installing: Read More

While reading Joel On Software, I found a link to a website with a draft of a book called "Emergent Design" by the same authors who wrote "Design Patterns Explained". Some chapters are still to be added, but the existing material there is very interesting reading, especially chapter 3, which covers "Coding Principles". If you were to apply this to the internal architecture of something like, say, umbrello, you can see why it would be very difficult to write any unit tests for the code. The classes in that application are very much linked together. For example, lower level classes send signals to indicate state changes to upper level classes. In other words, the coupling is too tight. It makes it very hard to test a class or group of classes in isolation. Read More

It was about a year ago that I got my CVS account after posting a patch to the kopete-devel fixing some issue in the Yahoo plugin. I don't even remember what it was. I sent the patch and Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett was like, "You should get a CVS account.". A few days later and I had one. Needless to say, I was quite pleased with myself. So anyways, it's been a year now, and I'd say I've been pretty active, although not as active as some people. For those who like lots of stats, here's some numbers since I got my CVS account on 05/13/2003 Read More

Well Alexander promised me that he would give me a QVariant editor widget tomorrow, so I am psyched. I grew annoyed with Qts qt:QSQLPropertyMap and decided to deviate some with my own take on the bugger. Not that its TTs fault here because I am departing from the realm of SQL. I ended up with a more complex property map, but this also gave me some added bonuses. Read More