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I went to the day long course on Monday given by KDAB, about QtQuick for Qt5, and it was excellent. I had used Qt4 and QML for a Symbian phone project earlier this year, and the combination worked very well. Read More

A whole week of KDE goodness here at the IT College in Tallinn. Favourite talks: Jeroen van Meeuwen gave a talk about bug management, something we're often not very good at in free software due to lack of manpower. I'd love to have a quick and convenient way of marking bugs for the next kubuntu release for example, and what's quick and convenient for me posting it via IRC, we recently got a bot who could do this but it can't mark it for the next release due to daft security issues, grr. Read More

A life reaffirming gathering of KDE contributors is happening this week in sunny Tallinn in Estonia. Here's some pictures for those stuck at home Pre-Akademy Hacker beer Read More

It was with great joy I received the Akademy award for Calligra Words today. The acknowledgement is much appreciated, and is for sure a great motivator. I may have been the one accepting this award, but it is just as much an award for the entire Calligra Suite and an recognition of the entire team of developers, artists, bugreporters, testers, translators, sponsors. Calligra would not be what it is today without the effort of every single one of you. Out of fear of missing someone I'm not going to list specific names. If you have done something for Calligra then this award is for you too. Read More

This week we celebrated 40 years of Atari, once #1 computer brand. For football and/or Atari fans - on time, some of us think that Mario Balotelli celebrated the anniversary too after scoring during the Germany vs Italy Euro 2012 semi-final match: Read More

I can't say I done a lot in the past year with advancing KDE bindings, but I'm hoping to reboot my efforts here in Tallinn. An important part of getting enthusiastic about KDE again is meeting the people, and of course drinking the right beer whilest doing so. I arrived in Tallinn yesterday and so far I think it is a great venue with excellent beer and food available at reasonable prices. Maybe it isn't the most perfect place for vegetarians, but I don't think that should be a show stopper. I thought I should try and summarise my findings so far. Read More

We're hiring Qt developers in Germany, for those who might not know, BlackBerry 10 is using Qt for our core platform with Cascades for our UI/UX framework. Details are here: https://rim.taleo.net/careersection/professional/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=256223 Read More

As I posted the last time I blogged (which I really should do more often), I had some problems with Calligra Active on Android and the number of shared libraries it requires (various versions of android have different, but low, fixed maximums for the number of .so files that can be loaded in a single process). Since then I did several things to resolve that. One option would have been to go the "libkok" route, like we did when we developed/ported calligra/koffice to Maemo and the Nokia N900 and N9. There we basically rewrote the kdelibs cmake files to just build those files that we really need, and build it all into one big library. The big problem was that approach was that it was completely unmaintainable, which meant that we were basically stuck with whatever snapshot kdelibs version we chose to base that on. So instead of doing that I got out the CMake manual, and came up with some relatively simple cmake code that basically combines several existing targets into one new target. The downside to this is that it still has to build all the individual targets as well, so build times basically doubled, but other than that it gives me a nice "libkall.so" that contains all of kdelibs that Calligra Active depends on, combining 11 .so files into one. See here if you're interested in the CMake code I came up with. I did something similar for the libraries Calligra itself provides reducing the number of .so files even more. (I had some problems to combine the various kdelibs libraries together because of the way automoc works. Basically when you have several source files with the same filename but different directores they will overwrite eachothers .moc file if they are built in the same target. To get around that I renamed some files). Read More

Short story: Almost 3 years ago Miguel praised elegance of QML compared to XAML. It took so much time to abandon Moonlight but other than technical, the hottest reason is abandoning the XAML/Silverlight and whole .NET-on-Desktops idea by Microsoft itself. Read More

Speaking for myself and not for RIM With RIM's serious push for Qt as part of the core frameworks and a more Open Source push for its ecosystem, it's the right time for me to jump in. Read More