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The first quarter of 2001 was quite a ride. Especially, there was a lot of Free Software stuff going on, not all of it was KDE-related. It included legal matters, Free Software politics, marketing, conference preparation and other activities. In the great tradition of quarterly updates that I am starting today, allow me to entertain you with what happened... Read More

Companies often store their customer information in databases managed by customer relation management tools. SugarCRM is one such popular (and open source) system, built on the extremly wide spread AMP stack (Apache HTTP, MySQL, PHP). Therefore its main user interface is web based, i.e. accessible through standard web browsers and thus also relatively platform independent. Read More

Today KDEPIM 4.6 Beta5 is tagged and released. Once the mirrors catch-up you should find the source code in ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/kdepim/4.5.95. Also, I know some distros will be providing their users access to this new release for your testing pleasure. Read More

Even if you are certified Qt developer already, I definitely do not recommend to stop but continue the certification effort. One extra point is that for someone like me preparing for exams means having a closer look at technologies I do not use so extensively everyday, e.g. QtScript. Nothing beats the developer's practice of course but learning for exams is almost as good excuse for taking the time as preparing Qt presentations. You have a chance to accidentally learn something relatively new and unnoticed. Read More

Did that get your attention? Good, it was supposed to. Now get back to making KDE 4 rock in whatever way you are able and resist the temptation to put 'KDE 5' in your blog title to get some clicks. KDE 4 is not going anywhere in the foreseeable future because GNOME just increased their major release number. Read More

Ubuntu App Developers Week has IRC talks on developing /on/ Ubuntu (rather than developing bits of Ubuntu itself. Of interest to Kubuntu and KDE folks is "Widgetcraft: The Art of Creating Plasma Widgets" by Harald Sitter today at 19:00UTC and "Creating a KDE app with KAppTemplate" Jonathan Thomas tomorrow Tuesday at 19:00UTC. Friday at 17:00 sees "Phonon: Multimedia in Qt" with Harald Sitter. Read More

Note in bold: no official plans here, however many continuously maintained software projects start with N+1 version development long before N version is discontinued. So yes, I really think the current works at UX level are "the" KDE 5 development. Read More

Last week was big for Calligra: March 30: The first three months of the Calligra Suite is a report showing activity in all possible areas related to Calligra, and creation of new areas like the new Braindump application, new maintainers for applications, refreshed application names, project home page, project git repositories, and finally Kexi Mobile, Calligra Mobile. More to come. April 1: The first Calligra sprint started, the biggest technical event in the history of KDE Office technologies to date: Read More

After day 0 on friday which I missed and day 1 on saturday where I joined the Calligra 2011 sprint in Berlin in the evening after a longer journay the last day of the sprint, day 2, is coming to and end. Read More

This weekend there will be the Calligra spring 2011 in Berlin in KDAB's office in berlin where I usually work and play kicker and table tennis all of the week. The irony is that I very likely will not make it to the sprint. I was visiting some friends in Koh Tao and I am now caught in a heavy storm in Koh Samui since more then a week now. My fly was canceled and the airport was closed, my visa was running out and cash problems raised up. While the later is solved now it's still unclear when and how I will be able to leave that island, head to Bangkok, pay for a new flight back to Berlin and finally be able to hack again. Within last days the streets here got float meters-high with water, the ocean was destroying large parts of the hotels near them and so we had to move from hotel to hotel in higher areas. In total more then 1500 ppl got evacuated from Samui and Tao alone and while the situation is better by every day and we even have power, warm water and Internet again I stay skeptic and wish I could be back again asap. In all those years I am traveling around the world that's the first time I will be damn happy to be home again. And who knows, with a bit of luck I will be able to join tomorrow or day after. Thinking of you, a Calligra hacker caught in heavy water. Read More