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Ryan Melton announced on the kde-bindings mailing list that he had set up a project on github called 'qtbindings' with the aim of doing cross-platform gems for QtRuby. This is great news, and congratulations to Ryan for making it happen Read More

Marble 0.10 was released on August 10th, 2010. It is part of the KDE 4.5 Software Compilation. In the good tradition of recent years, we have collected those changes directly visible to the user. Unfortunately we were a bit late with our visual changelog for the release. So please enjoy looking over the new and noteworthy: Read More

KOffice Developer Meeting (pictures). Akademy time! One Kexi dev was available for hugs^wdiscussion; chatted a bit with the ownCloud hackers about exposing Kexi databases though it, KDevelop guys about injecting Kexi database plugin in a form of KDevelop's "Database view" and mobile guys about possible options for Kexi Mobile. http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi updated. New tutorial added: Kexi Reports for Beginners Adam works on porting the remaining Q/K3 code in Kexi, starting with the Project Navigator. Ported now. The works on Kexi 2.2 Handbook started within the KDE Userbase wiki: http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi/Handbook Kexi now supports multipage (large up to 64 KB) memo values when importing data from MS Access. And it's the only open source app doing it! Some work on Predicate, database connectivity and creation library, a new iteration of KexiDB library developed within Kexi (Jarosław). Expect a more in August.

By and large I don't really care about what Microsoft do - I don't use their software, and I actively avoid making my career dependent on them. But I am a fan of the C# programming language and think the Qyoto/Kimono bindings for the Qt and KDE apis are pretty neat. Read More

Last weekend I received a postal package that contained a classroom atlas from Austria: the Neuer Kozenn Atlas. Inside there was a nice shiny CD with the title GEOTHEK Schulatlas, Version 1.1 Digitaler Weltatlas. The publisher of this atlas and its software is Ed. Hölzel. Read More

I am not talking about His Steveness or this kind of jobs (congratulations to both involved parties!), I am talking about these. Traditionally we have been writing in a very start-to-end fashion, where execution starts at an entry point and ends when the task is done. At first there wasn't any reason not to do this as there was no user interaction during a programs execution point or only at controlled points, e.g. a console program asking for a Y/N descision. Read More

Yes, this is basically a job ad. The openSUSE Boosters team is expanding again (when will it ever stop?) and we're looking for another member. If you want to work full time on Linux, enjoy the idea of building a community around the distribution and think you have the right skills why not apply and have the chance to work with me, Lubos Lunak, Stephan Kulow, Klaas Freitag and many other people you know from the KDE and wider Free Software scene? Read More

api.kde.org is operational again. I can help fix problems you might notice on the site (bad-links, etc), but please don't bother me about content -- contact the project authors, maintainers, module coordinators if you encounter missing/outdated/broken/wrong API documentation. Read More

In a few hours KDE 4.5 will be released. And together with it the new version of our Virtual Globe and Map Widget Marble. The new release Marble 0.10.0 will bring lots of additional features (Routing, Tile-Bulk-Download, Multiple Layers, initial WMS support and a lot more) - many of them related to OpenStreetMap. Of course development on the next release has started already: Dennis Nienhüser and Niko Sams have added Worldwide and Offline Routing support to Marble using Gosmore and Routino. In other news the spanish Linux Magazine has published a really nice article by Tim Schürmann about Marble the application: "¡MARBILLOSO! Marble se ha convertido en una alternativa interesante a Google Earth, y funciona sin conexión a Internet. Read More

Harald has asked me to organize a KDE release party here in Graz. However, I am too lazy (wait! busy! sorry for my English, busy is the word I was looking for) to do that there won't be a dedicated event to celebrate KDE's newest achievement. Read More