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"CeBIT is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to CeBIT." Read More

This week I've been on Ubuntu release driver duty for Beta 1. Ubuntu has lots of flavours there days and they all need to be nudged to ensure they get their testing and announcements done in time. We only had a few hiccups, some of the flavours had to be respun late last night for fixes and do lots of testing today. Ubuntu (poor under-resourced flavour that it is) also didn't update their upgrade instructions in good time and some grumping at them was needed (sorry, I get grumpy quickly these days with my traumatised brain). Slashdot linked to the wrong URL for downloading Ubuntu CDs so I had to put in a quick redirect to point them at the announcement where the correct URLs are. Read More

As C.Boemann already said, we met at my place for two days in order to fix some serious issues we had with the undo/redo framework in Calligra Words (and Stage for that matter). Read More

I'm at PierreSt's house in Munich for a minisprint trying to fix the undo system in Calligra Words. I arrived Sunday evening, and we started immediately discussing how we would solve the issues we are facing. Luckily we seem to have the same idea and understanding of the issues. Read More

The Calligra Suite recently released the 7th beta, and mostly because Calligra Words is still not ready. Building a new application from scratch takes time. Until around October the focus was on writing a new text layout system that could provide the rich text support that any user demands these days. We were not able to reuse the code from KOffice as it was simply not up to the job. So this took a lot of effort. Read More

Pretty often I hear people say that Calligra Words is a fork of KWord. As a maintainer I tell you this not true. Sure we have ripped about 20% of the code from KWord but even that has been dismantled and reassemble in a new way. Read More

This week is feature freeze in Ubuntu land and the Kubuntu community have been working hard to get in as many as possible before the deadline. Telepathy-KDE is working nicely. We're still deciding if it's better to go with the new-but-not-much-tested Telepathy-KDE or the old-but-unmaintained Kopete by default. Read More

KDEPIM Git Resource You can now monitor any git repository with KMail. Commits will appear as e-mails in the message list. KMail configuration: Resource configuration: Message list: It will do a git fetch every 5 minutes or so. Read More

After 6 years of absence, I participated again in a KDEPIM meeting, to fix some issues in Akonadi in order to improve my daily life :-) Here's a report of what I did: Read More

I started my first job out of college in July 2007, at a company in the entertainment industry. I majored in animation in school, and at the time was still convinced I'd like to get into a professional animation position, so this was a great entry level job for me. Although, the position had nothing to do with animation. I was in charge of managing the company's disk and render resources, making sure that we got what we needed out of the render queue each night, and making sure that our disks stayed clean enough that people could keep working. Read More