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Kubuntu 9.10 is on the final lap with freeze coming next week followed by the release candidate and then the final thing. I'm pleased to say it's shaping up to be a decent release. Of course compared to 9.04 that isn't hard, at least it connects to the network fairly reliably. The trouble with being a KDE distro is that when KDE is crappy we end up being crappy too, on the bright side, when KDE rocks, we rock with it. Read More

As Maemo Summit 2009 starts in a few hours. While I am not there, for me one of the most interesting parts is the Handheld Glom: Easy database applications presentation. Glom is a desktop database developed by GNOME friends using gtkmm (C++). Originally bound directly to PostgreSQL, recently (early 2009) has gained SQLite file database support (default engine in Kexi since 2004). That was a must I guess if someone wants to cover needs of mobile devices; just imagine how easier it is going to be to share data files between various apps one day. While Glom offers somewhat simpler feature set than than Kexi, a gnomedb library db layer has been also developed in the meantime, having partially similar goals as the KexiDB library and (its new awfully delayed incarnation) Predicate in the Qt/KDE world. Read More

You will hardly remember of me, since I've not being so active recently (my job takes me lots of time resources). Anyway, stay calm.. It's been proved that knowing who I am will not make you feel any better :) That said it's not about me that I want to talk but about a great coding team doing a great job with a very promising application. That application is.. imagine.. you already know since it was in the title.. It's KGet. Read More

Once again, its been a long time since I blogged. I have been doing a bit of OpenChange development though. Mostly its been minor bug fixes, cleanups and so on. This weekend I decided to take on something a bit more substantial. Email rules handling between Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange are pretty sophisticated, and OpenChange didn't do too much of it. I ended up having to get all the way down to the unmarshalling data structures from the RPC calls to understand why things didn't work. Its starting to come together now, with the condition part of the rule mostly under control (although not complete) and the actions part of the rule hopefully not too hard once I get conditions sorted. Read More

Shocked by the title? So I am. Would you like to see Qt supported on this platform? Just two days ago the answer was like "But it's close to impossible". Now with NDK 1.6 the "little robot" OS opens more to C/C++ native code. I am eager to read some analysis on the topic. Read More

I recently had a crash that was hard to fix. Well, it IS hard to fix because I am still on it. It is again one of these "from the middle of nowhere" bugs KDE is so good in producing. Read More

Nearly Beta time for Kubuntu. We need testers to grab the ISO images and test them. Also upgrade testing is needed. See the ISO tester for what needs tested and join us on #kubuntu-devel to help out. Read More

While explaining the story behind his great ppttoxml tool, Jos also mentionedSince about a year, Microsoft has, after significant political pressure, put documentation for their file formats on-line. That's fine and solved some issues. But there are MS Access proprietary file formats (mdb, accdb) that remain to be secret. These are not planned to be replaced by XML formats (what would be overkill in databases). I guess there was no pressure to open the formats, what looks like an overlook in EU and the USA (correct me if there's another reason like patents). If you google for that, it is hard to find even a single mention of file format specifications in the above meaning, and even explanations from MS employees or backers show that they do not fully realize one thinf: MSA formats are not covered by the process of said "opening of the legacy formats". Read More

This morning, I thought: why is XMLHttpReq for xml and text but not for binary files? It turns out you can use it for binary files, but not in each browser and only for remote files. I've written a small implementation of hexdump. It loads a binary file like this: Read More

This is what full screen KRDC will look like in KDE SC 4.4: Jam-packed with new features. Hi, now that I have your attention, let me introduce myself. I'm Tony Murray and like many SysAdmins on Linux, I use KRDC on a daily basis and I am often connected to several servers simultaneously. KRDC is one of my most vital tools. I have some form of coding skills, mostly being schooled in Java, but there are many fundamental differences between C++ and Java so it is a hard learning experience. I have contributed some small bits of code to Plasma and the nowplaying applet (which I believe is almost obsolete). Then I finally got up the courage to work on something I've been wanting to tweak for a long time, KRDC. I love it so, but there have been many small pain points in using it to do my SysAdmin duties. Read More