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The following weekend will see this year's instance of the famous KDE PIM meeting in Osnabrück, Germany, as usual gratiously hosted by Intevation at their shiny new office. I managed to convince the company I am currently working for that I can attend it and still make it to the final part of our site acceptance test in Nürnberg. Actually, since I am already in Germany, it will require less traveling than going there and back again from Graz. Read More

Tomorrow most people will be back from the holiday season, time to start again with the biweekly IRC meetings of the openSUSE KDE Team. This time we will look back to last year or rather to the openSUSE 11.1 release shortly before Christmas and the biggest reported problems. And also, despite the schedule discussion not being finished yet, we will start to collect and discuss ideas for openSUSE 11.2. Read More

New year means some snow and cold noses here in Warsaw, and a new job to me, this time in the mobile industry, what has rather diversified my day, and that's good. Happy 2009 to you, to your friends and family. Read More

I think the title say it all. so I wish everyone to have a nice year 2009, with everything one might desire ....

2008 has been a great year for me Free Software wise. Not only did I get the opportunity to attend three awesome KDE developer meetings/sprints, I also got invited and attended the Linux Collaboration Summit. Read More

Did some tumblin' a few days ago, as a result of me and some tram tracks at Hackescher Markt disagreeing as to the general direction of the front wheel of my bike. This resulted in a banged up wrist and rib, but no damage to the laptop or head. So while I'm still able to perform my primary function at work, namely talk, I am somewhat useless in my primary function at home, namely as a holder of hands while our daughter learns to walk. She has decided that this dire situation necessitates desperate measures and promptly started standing by herself. This works ok, as long as the realization does not hit her that no one is holding her, at which point we're back to tumblin', this time into a pile of cute making happy gurgling sounds, which I am convinced mean "Dad, check out what I did!". Read More

Well, I've been extremely busy on the weather plasmoid and finally, '1.0' is ready for use. It's now moved to kdereview so that any final bugs can be shaken out. This should arrive in extragear as soon as the review is completed. Read More

The Ubuntu Development Summit happened at Google the other week. Large numbers of people got together to spend a week discussing the next six months in Ubuntu. Lots of specs got written and you can find the Kubuntu Jaunty specs here. Read More

Today I <a href=https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84510>fixed a bug that has been open for more than 4 years. This feels good. However, there is a reason why it took so long: kdialog contains a member winId() as you can see <a href=http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdepim/ktimetracker/idletimedetector.cpp?r1=900568&r2=900567&pathrev=900568>here, but this is not documented in our api documentation. KDE's api documentation has a list "This is the complete list of members for KDialog, including all inherited members." where winId() is missing although it is inherited from QT! I suspect the problem is that winId() is inherited from QT and not from KDE, however, this is something for you to be aware of: The API documentation might be incomplete.

The human race has been living and thinking in terms of borders for a long time, since the first people decided to settle down instead of keeping a nomadic life style. Read More