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Since I'm not so good in thinking of innovative titles I have decided to stick with the current one. In turn, that obliges me to rant a little. The subject of my rant today is kwallet. Thanks to kwallet I can now use secure passwords such as "@&fR(e6FSdkf%" and "n#hkghgHGJkjf^$z" which would otherwise be impossible to remember. This is good. The bad part comes when you start to rely on this. The password for my blog account is equally cryptic as the two examples above (still good), but kwallet REFUSES to remember my password for the login page. I have a somewhat of a love-hate relationship with the thing anyway since it DOES insist on popping up on every Groklaw article that I read. Read More

i think that the Universe has been trying to tell me something. since the beginning of the year one thing after another after another kept coming up to keep me away from KDE development. then yesterday i realized that i didn't really care much for or about KDE anymore. so today i wiped KDE off my main box and installed GNOME from CVS. i'm totally excited about this object model thingy and feel that youthful exuberance in my fingers once again. i can't WAIT to give the underscore key a good workout in the months to come. au revoir, KDE, i've found my true GHOME. i suppose this will be my last blog here. it was fun. luv, aaron. Read More

I took a semi-break over the last couple of weeks and went hardcore back into coding on Sunday. Cleaned up Kopete's filetransfer API a bit (ok, removed one whole function), fixed a Gadu bug, and then added mail notifications to Yahoo. Not really sure what to work on next, but I get to run Linux (and therefore KDE) at work now, so I hope I can code there more. Read More

I said Rant because this thing is clearly marked as "personal blog" and yet it forces me to pick a KDE category, that's hardly personal now is it? A lot of people are curious about the New Project. I can't say much about it at these early stages but I did some digging today and made good progress, I hope to have phase 1 completed by the end of this week. The patch starts to look good as well. Read More

wow, i'm amazed, i just read http://wlinux.ods.org/GNOME-2.6/ the gnome guys are doing some awesome work! i'm really happy that they are actually catching up with the state we were in 2 years back! Read More

It's hard to see what's going on at Novell right now, and recent comments by Nat and Miguel aren't making things any clearer. They're claiming that they're not aware of any SuSE development using Qt other than YaST, ignoring all the SuSE sponsored KDE development (including new hires such as the developer of the KDE-OpenOffice GUI glue). Nat says he's 'Novell/SuSE Desktop Lead' hmm. I wonder could that be 'Novell/SuSE Ximian Desktop Lead' perhaps - after all he said he was VP of Novell Desktop Services a few months ago, missing out the crucial word Ximian which indicated the limitation of his scope. Unfortunately Nat and Miguel don't seem concerned about confining what they say to the declared policy of the company they work for, perhaps they know something we don't, perhaps they just wish it was true? If any of the Novell guys attending the Linux Expo UK would like to explain what on earth they're doing I would be most happy to listen, either as a UK KDE Representative, an editor of the Dot or a user and developer of KDE. Read More

Heh, 3 hours ago I was about to drop this little project. 3 hours later, I'm back thinking I can't do that. I can't just drop it and go away. I'm not that kind of person. I think blogging about one's complaints and stopping coding for 3 hours helps thinking better. Really, try it. I guess I didn't sleep enough, was stuck with the project and as a result I got a hit by the frustration. I was even thinking of joining the Gnom... nah! that's just not possible ;) Read More

It's not easy to explain why one begins doing opensource code. For once, you find some good software, and can't resist the temptation to look at its code and improve it. On the other hand, it's a good means to learn coding, specially working on team projects. But one of the most important factors is probably that someone is using your code, and thinks its useful. Read More

Wow, it has been more then 5 months since i posted here... This really requires an update :) On a personal level there were some changes. I quit my job at Beaphar and now work for Intel at SAP in Germany so i moved from the Netherlands to Germany (reading all the blog entries from the other people it seems that moving is a hip thing to do :). Dont have my own place yet (staying at wheels' place, and yes i am the dutch guy singing along with that Lyle Lovett song) but i'm working on it so i'll be moving soon again. The work at Intel is Linux related, i'm very pleased with that and i owe wheels a lot of gratitude for paving the way for getting me in. Read More

so.. this is the year that will never end ... in both good and bad ways... i've got my 3 hours of speaking time about KDE staring me in the face in the middle of April @ Bellingham, Washington's Linuxfest Northwest, a HUGE backlog of KDE hacking and a million things going on. i'm watching what's happening @Brainshare with anticipation. my step-Father died, a company of mine is in the final stages of selling it's first "franchise" (licensee, really, but... yeah, those are just legal differences ;) which is something that just cropped up, i'm busy sorting out life with women and other beings, i'm excited about what's happening w/Ian's company re:Kolab (DUDE: we need to talk on the phone again about what's up with the marketing materials!), i'm wrapping up a sideline contract devel job, and i'm trying to figure out how to put together a meaningful action plan for people who watch documentaries like The Corporation and have their eyes openned for the first time to the ills of our culture's metasystems. in all, i'm having a slow month. =P Read More