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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don't bother me about content -- contact the project authors, maintainers, module coordinators if you encounter missing/outdated/broken/wrong API documentation.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

I spent the past 10 days working on image warping. It wasn't easy, but I think most of the work is done ! Since I had absolutely no idea concerning the algorithm, and wasn't even sure what I wanted to do - I only knew I wanted to add an "image deformation" functionality to the tool -, I began searching randomly on the web. I eventually came across a nice paper entitled Image Deformation Using Moving Least Square. Apart from the snappy pictures at the top of the front page, what I liked was that it gave implementation details and put the emphasis on the speed of this method. Basically, it describes 3 different math functions (affine, similitude, and moving least squares) which distort an image according to the modifications made on a set of points. Read More

Fast - tell me how do you implement a thumbnail loader - well the loading and storing of the thumbnails that is? Classically you would likely say something that included individual JPG files for each thumbnails, and perhaps also something that included multithreading. Read More

The OpenChange team had a short online (IRC) meeting on Friday. The meeting record is at http://tracker.openchange.org/projects/openchange/wiki/Meeting_of_2010-07-30 We're considering holding an "open session" meeting (again on IRC), possibly in a couple of weeks. If you'd be interested in attending, please leave a comment on the best days and times (relative to UTC) so we can accommodate as many people as possible.

It's official the combined KDE Akademy and Gnome GAUDEC conferences will be held in Berlin in 2011, next year and this is great news! I played a small part in organising the joint conference in Gran Canaria in 2009, and really enjoyed working with the Gnome guys most of whom I hadn't meet before, as well as the familiar KDE people. It was great fun to see how it turned out. I don't think anyone really knew in advance - we didn't know if too much collaboration would spoil the 'community bonding' aspects of the conference and their individual identities. Or maybe too little collaboration would increase the distance between the two communities. In the end I thought the collaboration aspects could have been better, indeed like the WiFi could have been better - there is always something you can improve at these conferences, but what the heck, by and large it was mostly pretty good. Read More

After many months kubuntu.org got a new look, complete with new logo. Many thanks to Ofir for his patience in seeing this through. During the Platform sprint in Prague I took Aurelien Gateau, doko and a couple of nice chaps from SuSE Prague canoeing on the awesome whitewater course near the city centre. Read More