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It's been 10 years since I joined Kexi and thus the KDE community. I think writing down some history and summary makes sense. 2003-03-28: first touch on Kexi sources for porting It all started at a technology fair in Warsaw, 2003. I wasn't too keen to go but got free tickets and free time. I met a founder of OpenOffice Polska LLC (later renamed to OpenOffice Software) from Warsaw presenting its adaptation of deeply localized, nicely prebuilt office suite based on OpenOffice.org. The office suite has been open sourced StartOffice over two years before by SUN and then localizations or user handbooks basically did not exist. During the meeting among other topics we also discussed apparent missing bit in the OpenOffice.org suite: a rival of MS Access. I proposed to perform some research on how the app can be added. I got hired and engaged full-time from March 2003. Read More

I've been really busy on the job front these days most recently being interviewed at palantir.com HQ. It was a great experience. I made it to the final steps but unfortunately, was not an exact fit for what they needed (I applied for a Quality Engineering role). Even so, I'm proud to have gotten to the decision stage, they aren't an easy company to get into. Now that my passport is being renewed, hopefully more opportunities will arrive. The economy hasn't made any of this easy looking for work but hopefully something comes around soon. Please take a look at my Linkedin profile. If something catches your interest, contact me :) http://ca.linkedin.com/in/shawnstarr/

Bienvenue au Planet KDE Francais, un grand planet pour tout la monde francophone. "C'est cool ça un planet en français pout KDE!" Cédric Bellegarde "Une planète en français s’il vous plait!" Jean-Nicolas Artaud Read More

Myself and Paul and Nicky and Carry judged the entries. They were all winners. They all showed what could be done when you put people with ideas together with people who can hack. They all showed the power of open, collaborative and friendly development. Read More

Introduction Coffice (Calligra Office or coffee-in-office) is a new project that tries to make Calligra available on mobile platforms like Android, Blackberry 10, Jolla SailfishOS and Ubuntu Phone. With the MeeGo-saga, where Calligra was the office suite that Nokia shipped with the N9, a huge chunk of focus went on trimming Calligra for mobile platforms, improving performance and compatibility with ISO OpenDocument (ODF) and Microsoft Office formats (binary and XML). When MeeGo got finished focus shifted to other platforms. Our always present Linux Desktop got extended with a great port to Windows and Krita Sketch, both done by KO GmbH. More then a year ago we also saw a first port of Calligra on Android that unfortunately never got polished enough to be published on Android's app-store(s). Read More

Linux geeks The judge and the organiser The Ambulance Massive

NHS Hack Scotland is starting here in Edinburgh brining coders and medics together for the weekend Morning wake up The pitches get written Read More

Sometimes I get the best e-mails... From: "Przemek (cojack)" Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:42:19 +0100 Subject: Big request To: jr@jriddell.org Hello, I have big request to you, please don't ever stop working on/for Kubuntu. Thanks in advance, Best regards, Przemysław Czekaj.

Good news everybody! QtWebKit 2.3.0 was tagged in gitorious yesterday with the tarball available there as well For those of you that don't know: QtWebKit 2.3 is a port of QtWebKit from Qt 5 to Qt 4.8. It has most of the web-facing features, stability fixes and performance improvements that QtWebKit in Qt 5 has, it has skipped anything Qt 5 specific such as QQuickWebView, but has almost all improvements on the WebKit1 side (QWebView). QtWebKit 2.3 also maintains API and ABI compatibility with QtWebKit 2.2 from Qt 4.8, and is thereby an easy drop-in replacement. The released version 2.3.0 has roughly the same WebKit version and patches as Qt 5.0.2. Read More

There’s been chat that my NHS Hack Scotland post implies there’s no point in going to the event, that in light of the NHS Lothian FOI request anything created at the weekend has no chance of being used in the NHS. I wouldn’t be attending (and judging!) if that were true! Read More