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I recently read a Mac magazine (borrowed from the local library - I wouldn't have bought it :)) that had an interesting idea about extending iCal into an associative tool. Read More

The most annoying thing when writing public APIs is that it's a lot of redundant typing. A good API implementation should check all arguments and return a useful error message if an argument is invalid. Good API documentation should document which arguments values are valid and which return values are possible. Both tasks are work-intensive and annoying for the developer, which is probably one of the reasons why there so many bad APIs. Here is a Java snippet with Sun-style argument handling: Read More

Anyone who is interested in database systems integration may know ODBC can be usable. Currently, development of KexiDB integration with ODBC functionality is started. So, I've updated Kexi Developers Wiki Pages with a small research on ODBC in KexiDB Drivers context. Read More

As I downloaded KDE 3.2 RC1 some while ago and KDE 3.2.0 today, I started using Konqueror as my primary browser as it has improved immense since 3.1. Now I want to share some ideas for improving Konqueror the Browser. Read More

Holy f***ing CHRIST people! I haven't read the blogs for a while due to being simultaneously busy beyond belief and rather uninterested in anything further than 3 feet from my own naval, but I decided to take a gander at what's been up here of late and ... it's crazyness! People are spouting off about fd.o when they obviously don't know the first thing about it. Let me cluebat some of you back onto this side of the International Stupid Line (which runs straight through Elbonia and the Far Side universe, IIRC). Read More

so i've gotten a couple hours sleep now and i'm calmer. thanks to work for waking me up; i just love fixing code over the phone. i still haven't finished the stupid "Everything that's new or changed in 3.2" page thanks to my 3.2 install being minorly screwed right now. i'll probably hijak my system at work to finish it off. anyways. i reread my last blog and boy was i in a pissy, albeit mildly humourous, mood. "cluebat you back to this side of the International Stupid Line".. hehe.. i'm such an ass. back to sleep. Read More

The "nods in agreement" comment at the bottom of this post is required reading. For all of you. Go Eike.

I think the whole discussion can be simplified with three points that hopefully everyone can agree to: In the next 12-24 months the only way to get a somewhat competitive desktop is to pile up code from all sources, including kde and gnome, and try to integrate them somehow If you think about the architecture of a desktop in 5-10 years, this mixture of pure C code, Gnome/Glib C code, KDE C++ code, Python, Bash scripts, maybe Mono C# code etc, all with different API conventions and wrapped by various wrapping mechanisms, all that sounds like a horrible nightmare that no one really wants Whether you like freedesktop.org or not depends on whether you want to have a usable desktop soon (thus today's desktop has a high priority for you and the future a low priority), or whether your goal is to have the best desktop at some point in the future (future: high priority, today: low priority) Make your choice.

What's up with freedesktop.org? Daniel says KDE people don't care about it, Ian says we have to abandon it. I say let's embrace it and make it what it's meant to be, a common building block for all desktops, KDE, GNOME and whatever else. Read More

freedesktop.org is a website. Really! It contains code and documentation. We could use some of that for KDE, if it suits us. But KDE is a volunteer effort, and we don't have to read any particular website, nor use any particular code, nor implement any particular specifications. Read More