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Short story: In the last day of 2011 Kexi reached the 2.3 release as the other KOffice applications. Versions 2.4 and newer will be developed distributed within the Calligra suite, meaning it stays within the team formed by the same awesome, welcoming community. Read More

The programming language JavaScript is seeing more and more use. Software written in it can run in many different environments. Not only do web browsers support it, there are quite a few programming environments that can integrate and run JavaScript code. Qt has support for it with the QtScript module. GNOME has JavaScript bindings via gjs. Node.JS is gaining popularity on the server and Java has the Rhino runtime. Read More

As a followup to my previous blog post about rendering widgets to SVG, lets take a look at rendering them to PDF. I won't go into as much detail as the previous blog post since the code is mostly the same. This time, instead of a renderToSvg() method, we have a renderToPdf() method. All the rest of the code is basically the same as the previous example. Read More

In response to a question on IRC yesterday, here's a quick example for the New Year - rendering designer's UI files to SVG using QSvgGenerator. As usual, the code is simple since Qt gives us everything we need. Read More

Besides all possible conventional wishes there is something I wish you for 2011: "Let any good code you commit come back to you redoubled" A twisted variant of the karm^w boomerang theory ;) Read More

Today KDEPIM 4.6 Beta3 is tagged and released. This is the first release in our departure from the normal KDE SC 4.6 cycle, but you should be able to build against kdelibs and kdepimlibs from either the beta2 or the upcoming first release candidate UPDATE: building against the KDE SC 4.6RC1 kdepimlibs is required -- which should be available soon. Read More

Alberto Ruiz asked me to post a message on Planet KDE about Codethink is hiring! He says: "Codethink is currently looking for bright university graduates looking into joining a young open source company. As you may know already Codethink is an Open Source consultancy focused on helping our customers to make the most out of open source and create great innovative products with it. Read More

A few days ago, Alberto Villa committed some changes to the KDE on FreeBSD website: it is now using the Chihuaha framework, which means it looks a lot more like the rest of the kde.org websites. As noted in the commit message, many thanks to the KDE on Windows webmasters, since Alberto originally got the code from their website. Read More

Tomaz shares a hint with us: Have you ever tried to create an overlay on top of some QWidgets to make them not acessible, but still visible to the user? I’m not saying about setEnabled(false), but to create a semitransparent – mask on top of some widgets with something inside, a modal dialog or so. [..] aseigo had already told me that it was possible by using a QGraphicsView... Read More

I've been doing some work on <a href="http://www.openchange.org>OpenChange, including parsing RFC2822 format messages into Exchange RPC properties. One of the test tools I have can parse up some kinds of RFC2822 / MIME messages (plain text, HTML, some mime/alternative and text/calendar) and upload the results to a Microsoft Exchange server as a particular user. Read More