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The cvs-digest rewrite seems to have hit a wall, or I have. I suppose a couple of days away will help. It looks like I'll be hosting the thing on my machine for the time being, until someone with a repository offers a bit of space and bandwidth. I'm short on hd space, got another one coming tomorrow. 120GB seagate. Should do for a week or two. Then do a chroot jail for apache and php, and get the thing running. How come this project, which I started to learn the kde api, ends up teaching me web server admin, php, perl and a host of other interesting but unrelated stuff? The security stuff makes me nervous. If anyone is willing to help with a security audit of the php code, and some suggestions on securing the server, please let me know. Read More

...Hotel Wheeler style [image:435] Ok, so that's not a birthday candle and that's not a birthday cake, but jalepeño / onion pizza is much geekier anyway. So here's happy 32. :-) Read More

I love open source. Software development is my hobby and passion.... its my release and my work of art. Personally I take great pleasure when people out there say they run KWeather, or like some other feature in KDE that I have worked on.... Read More

The good news, Rich, is that the KDE stand at the UK Linux Expo is now ready, cos I just set it up :) Thanks to SuSE for supplying a machine. Various other SuSE bits were also supplied, does anyone have ideas for what to do with 4 copies of SuSE 8.2, a box full of SuSE Office-Pro CDs for SuSE 8.0 and 20 SuSE mouse mats? Hopefully I can get a SuSE 9.1 CD so I can install software as needed, like the required en-gb translations. Incidently the SuSE 9.1 widget theme is an interesting and quite pleasing mix between Plastik and Kermarik. Read More

After a period of obscurity, it seems the KDE kdebindings module's time has almost come. So I thought I'd start a series of Bafflin' Smoke Signal blogs about what's going on, and specifically I'd like to try to explain how Ashley Winter's SMOKE library works. In this first blog, I also include a rant about how dysfunctional HR departments in some large organisations just don't understand FOSS developers. Read More

As some of you might know, the amaroK project (an audio player for KDE) decided some time ago to implement an audio engine interface that makes it possible to use multiple media frameworks, which makes amaroK quite useful as a testing platform. Here I've tried to summarize my experiences with GStreamer so far (maybe mxcl can do the same for NMM sometime, since he's been hacking that engine): Read More

i forgot i had the presentations on my watch (it has 256MB of USB-accessible flash memory =) which, between devices:/ and fish:/, made it really easy to upload. i think they are both the versions i used on the laptops, though i think i may have done some cleanups/typo fixing on each after "backing them up" from the laptop to my watch ;-) anyways. here they are: Read More

somewhere between 15 and 20 people attended the last presentation which wasn't bad given the overly technical nature of the presentation and the fact that it was the last of the day. i was tired and hungry (the food vendors closed down before i could answer all the after-presentation questions people had for me after the second presentation! bastards!) but it went well. i decided to take an informal approach on this one: no slides, just an interactive discussion. i covered the basics of the signal/slot architecture, XMLUI, KConfigXT, what a basic KDE app looks like and the various libraries one can use (kio, kdeui, etc). i then did a quick tour of KDevelop, did some basic form design in Designer and provided an overview the constellation of the many, many KDE devel tools. talked about developer.kde.org and how to get more info on things like the KDE build system. used KDevelop/kapptemplate to generate a C++ and a Python KDE app. people were duly impressed ;-) Read More

I've been working on these articles for KJSEmbed and have loved the response I've gotten so far. We have generated new interest in the project and gained a few followers... Read More

Well, I'm all set for the UK expo now. Hopefully I'll see some of you there. I'm only going to be around on the second day, but the booth will be manned on both. See you there! Read More