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Tuesday, 12 August 2003
KDE, Ruby and everything
Berkus
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Well, my home KDE went mad and started crashing and hanging everywhere, the last and the most disappointing was menu selection hanging the machine tightly. Rebuilt whole system from scratch with much-much lighter CFLAGS (i.e. used -mcpu=athlon-xp -O1 instead of -march=athlon-xp -O3 |:=)) Now it works like a charm and not a bit slower than before. While KDE was out of business my g\f found a home accounting program for win32 and guess what, this is the best home accounting software I've ever seen before. It includes a handy entry tool and useful graphs that display your income/expense as pie charts with separation into categories (screenshot pending). Seems like I have something to port to KDE. My regular job takes all of my time leaving no gaps to play KDE anymore. The rest of the time I spend with my 3-month-old daughter. So I don't expect too much work on KDE side, but seems like I gonna install internet connection in September so I could have some immediate access to docu and collective developers mind from home, this will help me with development alot |:=) On my regular job I'm playing with Ruby, and I love the language more and more every day. This is something I can call a language of my dream. Its elegant as Lua was elegant to me some time before, including easy bindings to C-like languages. Its handy as Perl is handy to script writers - actually, I transferred a bunch of ugly Perl scripts into a single Ruby script in one day and its much-much better and more flexible than it was before |:=). Unfortunately, I was unable to test qtRuby bindings, so mixing Ruby with KDE is left for some time later. Btw, found an awesome alternative library of Ruby software: http://freepan.org/ruby/by-cat/ (alternative wrt RAA) Oh yes, reading a book in Xtreme Programming now and I've got an idea for a decentralized helper tool. Tool that will track the development in a server-less manner within a group of developers. WASTE looks like a good pretendent for a communication framework, since it is group-oriented and supports encrypted communication. Anyone vote for a better toolkit?
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Monday, 11 August 2003
feels like forever
Aseigo
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wow, feels like forever since i posted a blog. but i'm behind in most of my correspondence: too much is happening.
on the KDE side of life i finished up some change to the address picker in libkdepim... it seems to make a lot more sense now and be a lot more polished. Zack made a great start on it, but it needed that last 10%.. maybe it only needs that last 9% now ;-)
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Monday, 11 August 2003
It's too darn hot...
Finally I found enough topics to annoy you with a new blog entry, so here we go:
The last days were definitely too hot. Consequently I enjoyed most of the day in swimming pools or similar and didn't get to do much coding. At least I got some administrativa done, namely publishing the final keylist for the Nove Hrady Keysigning Party and in the evenings when it cooled down I got XMLGUI for KOrganizer RMB menus basically working. It still needs tweaking, but it works, yay!
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Monday, 11 August 2003
Kopete 0.7.1
Mattr
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I just pushed Kopete 0.7.1 out the door. YAY! :) This was definately not the way I had scheduled it, thanks to bug:62210. Kopete 0.7.0 would not have gone out if I had known about that bug. :/
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Sunday, 10 August 2003
KConfigure - its Kool
Geiseri
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So my wife wanted to install a kde app a last night that she found on source forge... okay no biggie, i told her to just get the RPM off of the SuSE cd... one problem, the program was not there, soooo i told her to download the source and install it... BIG MISTAKE!*
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Sunday, 10 August 2003
Listbox vs Combobox
Geiseri
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After looking at the current eyesore in kcontrols style chooser I decided to share some thoughts on how and why to do certain UI things. The old chooser had a listbox to select a style from, while the new one uses a combo box. While someone may have thought this was cool, its a big UI mistake. Here is why:
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Saturday, 9 August 2003
fun with kio_obex
Geiseri
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Well today was a complete waste for anything other than getting linux booting reliably on my powerbook again (dont ask) and messing with my cellphone and cvs:[kdenonbeta/kio_obex|kio_obex].
I have to say so far Im impressed. It autodetected my cellphone via IrDA and listed the contents. I could copy vCard phone numbers strait off of it into my KDE address book, and was even able to make it a directory based resource with some help. Very COOL :)
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Saturday, 9 August 2003
Kastle Surprise
Unknow
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I wanted to go to Kastle. I wanted to go really badly. Well, unfortunately it happens during the only week my girlfriend and I could have gone on vacation this year. Now she's busy with her diploma thesis and I could go to N7Y, but registration is closed. ARGH! I hope it will be possible to get some last-minute planning done.
Friday, 8 August 2003
Blogbot testers welcome
Unknow
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The bot seems to behave, so I welcome any testers. If you want to use it, subscribe to it at kdedevelopers@jabber.org. It will reply with a short welcome message and ask for authorization in turn.Use $help to get a small help text and one command per message. Your passwords are being encrypted, so you don't have to fear that I will collect them. :)
Friday, 8 August 2003
greetings from Chile
I am on the last night of a 4-night observing run at the Magellan 6.5-m telescope, and KStars has been my lovely-and-talented observing assistant for the whole run.
It's great to be on a mountain again; prior to this, I hadn't been observing at all in 3 years. The weather's been great, the telescope is incredible, and the winter nights are long down here, so I'm getting lots of good data.
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