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Not infrequently people ask what's the best cloud "solution" for KDE. This is not a very useful question since "cloud" is woefully overloaded as a term. But now there's a simple answer, I packaged OwnCloud, the file storage web app from KDE. It's in natty or maverick-backports for 10.10 users. The licencing was the most fiddly thing here, if KDE is to get into web apps we need to update our licence policy which doesn't take into account AGPL nor the annoying PHP licence. Read More

The yearly FOSDEM was excellent as always. I could not attend all talks; mine was on sunday afternoon and as usual I was still improving it at the conference itself. Nevertheless, I spoke with many people and saw some very good presentations. Now that the videos are online, I will mention some of them with a link to the video footage. Read More

The recipe is a draft only but shows the taste.

Late last month, I was fortunate to be invited to Microsoft for the Exchange RPC Plugfest as part of the OpenChange team. I decided to arrive into Redmond a few days early to get over the worst of the jetlag, and to spend some pre-plugfest hacking time with Julien Kerihuel and Jelmer Vernooij. That produced some excellent planning work, and a bit of new code. I also caught up with Tom Devey (a Microsoft consultant, who is basically the customer representative for Exchange RPC protocols) and enjoyed a nice wood-fired pizza lunch, and some night skiing at Stevens Pass. My skiing was never really good, and lack of practice and some pretty unusual conditions didn't help. It was still a lot of fun though. Read More

Thanks for the opportunity of presenting Kexi as the official Qt Ambassador Project! Since 2002 it benefits from the solid foundation of Qt (and KDE of course)! Just one note: Are you developer interested in adding features? Want to join the (paid) Summer of Code Project (even if you're not very skilled yet or have no clear ideas)? Would you like to attend the Akademy 2011 conference or Calligra developer meetings? Or are you a user with lots of innovative suggestions? Good :). Drop a note in the comments or write to kexi@kde.org. Read More

Here's this year's crossdesktop group picture of FOSDEM, featuring all your favourite developers that attended FOSDEM (and me)! \o/ (and yes I now also see that I focussed on the building instead of the people, but it's hardly noticeble ;)) Read More

Just a short cmake tip today... You probably know that with "cmake -DSOME_VARIABLE=foo" you can give variables to cmake. Now, sometimes, e.g. if the wrong version of a package has been found, e.g. a wrong Qt, you want to remove the wrong entries for Qt from the CMake cache again (because otherwise cmake doesn't search again). Read More

Currently I am enjoying FOSDEM, the excellen Free Software conference in Brussels. Tomorrow I will give a presentation "WebODF: an office suite built on browser technology" about WebODF. If you want a preview, you can look at a screencast about it. Read More

Less than a week to go for FOSDEM 2011 next weekend! Just so that you don't forget: this year we have 2 days of (Cross)Desktop-related talks in their own devroom, but be sure to also look at the entire schedule since there's a lot of interesting stuff in the other tracks as well (including some KDE-related ones). Hope to catch a glimpse of you then :) Especially for the group picture on Saturday afternoon Read More

Thinkpad T410 Laptop refresh time is here, thanks Canonical. Faced with the prospect of finding a computer to spend a grand on I took the bus trip to Fry's in Dallas. Fry's is a large computer supermarket, I don't recommend it for the cafeteria but they do have a large selection of laptops to browse. The staff are annoyingly keen to help you, until you start asking about the finer details of processor ranges and mention Ubuntu. All their laptops have glossy screens, a phenomenon I do not understand. Read More