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Well, today I was let go after being at Platform Computing working on our Open Source software for almost 5 years. It's been one of those up and downer days. I read the FLOSS blog postings from all the different communities and see people being let go and now I'm one of them :-( Read More

Testers are needed for the proposed CD and DVD ISOs for the final Kubuntu 9.04 Release. Upgrades from 8.10 and 8.04 need testing too. Report your results on ISO testing and #kubuntu-devel.

Ok, this blog is not really KDE related (well, it makes the network installation of a KDE developer more convenient, so...), but anyway here we go. Main purpose is to get the compatibility information out there, so others can find it. Read More

There will be some new weather providers coming soon. I am currently working on adding a Netherlands source (current conditions only provided free). Someone is working on a German source and I plan on adding 7 day forecast info to the NOAA provider hopefully soon. Read More

Testers are needed for the proposed CD and DVD ISOs for the Kubuntu 9.04 Release Candidate. Upgrades from 8.10 and 8.04 need testing too. Report your results on ISO testing and #kubuntu-devel.

I've read various stories about how people are having problems with the KDE4 compositing effects. So for a change, I thought I should describe how I'm a very happy KDE4 user, after I got KWin and Plasma effects to run pretty satisfactorily on the low end VIA7 cpu/gpu combination in my HP 2133 mini laptop. Read More

Hello everyone, from some time br.kde.org, the Brazilian KDE page was maintained in a slow pace, due the heavy duty that me, Maurício, Felipe ( the previous mantainer ) and other translations guys in role are into ( like real life ). Was basically pt_BR carbon copies of main website, nothing more. As Felipe asked for a temp departure, we are in need of new fresh blood insane people to join the hard task and bring new life to the home. So i'm proud to announce that Tomaz and Sandro, from the Live Blue project accepted take the task. So, thanks to Felipe for all the years in the translation team and taking care of the site, and welcome to the new overlords of Brazilian KDE Site. Hope they will aim to a new high quality project as our friends of KDE India are doing !!

A post on the KDE forum motivated me to write some info about what's new with Kexi 2.0. For sanity I groupped a set of quickies as an 2.0 Alpha 12 changelog. For uninformed, most applications within KOffice will meet the stable 2.0 release (already passed a promising RC1 stage), while Kexi and Kivio neds more time for development. The hope is to synchronize nicely at the 2.1 stage. Read More

People reading planet will have seen Thomas Zander's post about the new ItemViews framework the Trolls^H^H^HQt Software guys have been working on. It's very experimental right now, but I thought I'd have a quick look. I decided that a fun hack to write would be to take a standard listview that displays a list of URLs (boring!) and write a custom view that instead displays the rendered web page. I only spent a couple of hours on it, so the code is a hack (eg. you need to resize it to get the pages to display once they've loaded) but the results look ok. The whole code for this example comes in under 120 lines. Read More

In case you thought that reading about the Akonadi developer sprint on the dot gave you an all encompassing overview of stuff happening around Akonadi, you forgot our brazilian friends. Adenilson Cavalcanti, also featured in one of Danny's excellent commit digests, has been working like a mad man (or a genious, thin line and all that ;-) ) on the Akonadi resources for Google's data services. Read More