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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

Calligra Suite project is up! The roots of the name are in Calligraphy. Announcement can be read at the dot.kde.org. Here's how I see this. We're widening the scope, definitely we are not starting from scratch. Changes like moving to the git version control system from Subversion would be needed anyway, so there are no that much overhead related to the move as observers would think. And finally you have direct access to roughly the same group of fellow developers as before. Read More

If you are coming to FOSDEM, one of the largest gathering of free software developers you probably want some accommodation. Claudia will be booking beds for KDE people next week, if you want to stay with the KDE spods put your name on the KDE at FOSDEM wiki page before Thursday. Read More

I just finished tagging and releasing KDEPIM 4.4.8. Should be showing up in the usual place on ftp.kde.org soonish. Here's the Changelog: 2010-12-02 20:26 djarvie * [r1202940] Make disabled icon more distinguishable for colour blind users 2010-11-30 22:41 tmcguire Read More

Talks wanted for Cross-Desktop room at FOSDEM. Doing something interesting in KDE? Tell the world of developers about it. Submissions by 22nd December 2010 to: crossdesktop@lists.fosdem.org

This news is perhaps a little bit late, but I can assure you I've been very busy in the meantime. The first day of November Debbie and I were able to welcome our first child to the world, Toby Edwards. We are all very happy. It was a pretty tough labour and result was a health boy who has since been busy growing and stacking on weight. The parenting learning curve is quite steep at the start but I think we're finally getting the hang of managing the baby and sleeping enough. Read More

As a followup to my previous post: I just added a feature to kdesrc-build which makes it possible to run the tests and upload the result to http://my.cdash.org. Just add the line "run-tests upload" in your module definition for kdelibs, and others if wanted. Read More

Linux fragmentation requires extra effort from packagers, and extra communication efforts between software vendors and packagers. To lower this unnecessary pain I shall remind, how to package Kexi? Kexi depends on many packages that are highly optional, only suggested for "full installation", which in turn is rarely needed in real world. So each database driver ideally should be packaged separately for the best user experience. For example there is no need for user of file databases to install PostgreSQL or Sybase package(s). Did I mention Oracle? Read More

I was asked to give a talk at TechMeetup Edinburgh about Qt. Techmeetup is an occational event with free beer and pizza and talks. I told them why they want to use Qt, how to write a basic programme in it then introduced the exiting world of Qt Quick. Video online now. Read More

Well, the ramp-up for KDE SC 4.6 has begun now, with soft freezes taking effect yesterday and the first beta due in about 1 week. So... we have decided that there is no point to putting any more effort into the long-awaited KDEPIM 4.5. Read More