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It's been a little while since I've last posted an entry. My own personal life has been busy and hasn't given me much time to work on code. That will change soon though :-) Read More

speaking of logos, and while I'm in 1:N communication mode and have your kind attention, large and lovely N that you are: we're in need of a vector version of the current Kontact logo, for purposes of blowing it up indecently in size for use in a poster or two (for Linuxtag). If you, dear k \in N, happen to be in possession of such, or happen to know j \not\in N, but the creator of said artwork, or happen to be j \in N, said creator, yourself, please get in contact with me at your earliest convenience for the overall furtherance of the ascent of the K (assuming |K| > |N| without loss of generality).

David Capel will work on Parley during the Summer of Code. I'll let him speak for himself: Hello, I'm David Capel, an 18-year-old from Minnesota in the USA. I'm going to be a freshman at the University of Wisconsin at Madison this fall and will likely major in computer science of some sort. For my summer of code project I'm rewriting Parley's practice interface so that it uses SVG themes and will be easy to extend in the future, and I will likely create a few new practice modes along the way (if anyone has ideas or requests, feel free to email me). Finally, I'm looking forward to joining the KDE community. :) Read More

Other mentors have already blogged about their GSoC projects, so I am going to do the same for Akonadi. Basically Akonadi got three slots from KDE and one from OpenChange. Lets start with the one from OpenChange: Brad Hards will be mentoring student Alan Alvarez, who's goal is to implement an Akonadi resource based on the OpenChange MAPI library. If he succeeds it allow Akonadi and thus all Akonadi-enabled clients, to access mails, contacts and calendar items stored on a Microsoft Exchange server, using the same access mechanism as Micrsoft Outlook, i.e. not requiring that the Exchange administrator enables any additional transport such as OWA Read More

Near where I live there's a pond. Actually it is right outside of my living room. In this pond there used to be many a goldfish. Until this week. Read More

I'd like to introduce Akarsh Simha, who was awarded a GSoC this year to work on KStars. His project is entitled "Optimising loading and painting of stars in KStars", and when it is successfully completed, KStars will finally have the ability to display millions of stars, without adversely affecting the programs interactive responsiveness. Read More

Kubuntu 8.04 is out, upgrade now for rock solid 3.5.9 goodness, or download the CD with a choice of 3.5.9 or cutting edge KDE 4. New stuff includes printer autoconfiguration (coming to the rest of the world in KDE 4.1), super easy compiz setup, auto-codec install for Kaffeine, Wubi the Windows installer making it easy to install for those first timers, bulletproof X, NTFS Support and User Mountable Hard Disks and the latest versions of everything you can think of. Read More

Virtual Folders in KDE You can tag files, you can annotate them, Strigi indexes your files, I showed how to create new information types and things, but you could not really use it. I suspect you want to find the things again by searching for it. Well, I don't think we should search. We should simply find! Read More

OpenStreetMap can get addictive once you discover how easy and powerful the flash editor is. But what, my girlfriend asked, is the point when you can get maps at no cost from Google et al. The justification is that unrestricted by copyright you can do interesting things that you would be otherwise unable to do. OpenStreetMap Cycle Map shows all the best routes for a bike. Open Piste Map makes maps for skiing. So this evening I made Open Whitewater Map to create maps for canoeing and other river users showing places to get in and out, rapids and their grades and hazards on the river too. The WikiProject Whitewater Maps page has the info. Only a few river routes done so far, any canoeists out there want to add some more? Read More

There are plenty sources for KDE relates feeds and news, but reading them through the usual neutral feed readers or even on separate sites takes the fun out of the less serious ones. Also the common separations between different parts of KDE (internal devs, external dev, artists, usability experts, bug hunters and pr people) is reflected in the different community cultures (mailing lists, bko, dot, wikis, kde look/apps/files, other forums) which usually never mix (dot comments are probably the closest to that happening). I always thought putting them all together onto one (naturally huge messy) page should give an interesting overview, similar to the yellow press' collection of often useless(ly funny) article collections. As I recently found out about simplepie I decided to test myself how far I would be able to go with an automated yellow press parody of KDE news, all while both making good use of my limited webspace (with "unlimited" bandwidth) as well as satisfying my rather constant need for KDE tinbits from everywhere. The result after a couple of hours today is here (warning: brutal use of bright colours).