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KDE 4 on Solaris came to life today on my Opteron box. Screenshots of running KDE4 [ kdelibs/kdepimlibs/kdebase-workspace/kdebase-runtime ]: KDE4Solaris [ my Smugmug gallery ]. Built with Sun Studio 12, QT 4.3.1 and the Apache Standard C++ Library. Read More

What was it ... ah, yes ... KDE4.0 has been just released ... just in case you haven't noticed yet in all the other blog posts all around. No, in fact, the thing I really wanted, was: People, the proper capitalization is "KWin". Not "KWIN", not "Kwin". It is the KDE Window Manager, just like KCalc is the KDE Calculator, KPat is the KDE Patience Game or KMenuEdit is the KDE Menu Editor. Okay :) ? Read More

Back when I was attending my first KDE conference there was an interesting talk announcing that Qt 4 was in development. Now 4.5 years later that development has been released to the world in it's full form, KDE 4.0! Read More

Today at work, a new building was opened. To celebrate the happy event, Hugo Rietveld came to open the building. To do this, he needed keys and these were brought to him by a barn owl (church owl in dutch). The bird flew through the cafetaria and landed in front of Mr Rietveld with the keys. Read More

Recent development has left me feeling a bit unhappy with part of my toolset - code coverage. I'm not especially interested in metrics (except as a guide to where to start) - rather in the detail. Read More

Qt is getting better by the second. The new QWidget::render API call is so cool that u can do so many thing you like with it, I just changed few lines of the Video demo to render a QCalendarWidget as a Texture on a cube. Can't explain the coolness of the new API in words, simply impressive. (Video Link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6731089908367617401);

Technorati Profile You know, it's just in my nature. When someone falls, you help them up. When someone needs help you provide assistance. Well, the same goes in the online world. You see, ever since Aaron Seigo and Siraj Razick wrote up the CIA.vc applet, I sort of had a small crush for it. After watching it bitrot, stumble and cry for help. I thought it was time to make it smile and feel loved once again. Read More

Kross, the scripting framework, is one of the pillars new with KDE4. While the project started already a while back in 2004 it enveloped over the time to a rather big codebase. During the KDE4-process one of the main-goals was to decrease the codebase what can be even more difficult then writting new code. Read More

link to vid : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8237332295074818880 This Friday night, I wanted to do some thing wacky,and it was then, that some one passed me a link on youtube demonstrating Surface PC from Micrsoft, it was playing video and at same time moving in 3D. Hence, this crazy weekend adventure of adding Video Textures with Qt. The decoding is done with ffmpeg, which is a fast and neat library for handling video , the only problem is the lack of proper documentation on it's API, The results which I got after experimenting for a while were amazing. it really shows why Qt 4 is a supper kickass Library 2nd to none. 3% cpu 2 M Ram I was able to load and play the videos in 3D with no pain at all. here is the demo ;-).. I'll dump the code some where, if some one needs it. for none commercial use ofcourse ;-). Video

This works for a long time but I don't think that it's widely known: you can browse/view/download all the latest patches of openSUSE development in the openSUSE Build Service Factory project (yes, you have to login). That's more comfortable, comprehensive (3000+ source packages) and up-to-date (real-time) than me dumping our KDE patches once every release somewhere. :-)