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Seems like I'm not the only one taking the KDE 'holiday' vacation days. Usually the last two weeks of August are typically quiet. I did hack up the testapplet locally to connect to the WeatherEngine, so far, it returns a list of available datasources (Ions) in a kDebug() :-). Read More

Justin Karneges recently released the "test1" version of QCA. Read the announcement here. There will be a "test2" release soon, and the final release is scheduled for 4 September 2007. If you have an interest in crypto, or Qt APIs, or (ideally) both, note that we are providing Binary Compatibility and source compatibility from QCA 2.0.0 release for the duration of Qt4. If the API doesn't do what you need, now is the time to tell us. After 2.0.0 we will do additions, but nothing that will break BC. Read More

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Today a received a new toy, a shiny greenphone!!! After the last year of extremely bad things it's will help me get back the love of software development. And to help me find it again I decided to reorganise my office which is still on the temporary setup I did when I moved in here over 3 years ago ... finally I won't kill myself by tripping on network or electrical cable anymore ...

This is my first evening I have on my own, so I thought I let the world know: On the 16th of August 2007 our son Felix made world++. It was a busy day - after I complained on the 15th about deadlines it came a bit out of the sudden. Just as we agreed with the midwife that the 17th would be the better date anyway, he protested so heavily that he made it at 16 minutes to midnight (I don't want to bore you with medical details). Meanwhile I figured the 2^4th of the 2^3th month of 2..7 has its charm too - but only to boring people :) Read More

Sometimes KDE makes me want to cry out of frustration (like tonight, because of Qt using select(2) instead of poll(2), breaking my akregator), but sometimes it just fills me with so much joy that I could also cry =) Like just now, when someone came in #koffice to ask if he could somehow print his presentation notes that he put in KPresenter. Unfortunately, I did not know how to do that (quite likely it's just not possible), but it took me just a few minutes tinkering around with DCOP (yes, people still use KDE3.5 technology for work ;)) to make a tiny script that just prints out all your notes! Read More

A few days ago a kind soul reminded me of kandy.kde.org, the ancient home page of Kandy, an application to sync mobile phones I wrote six years ago. [image:2942 size=original hspace=100] I still remember the happy feeling when I had transferred the phonebook of my mobile phone to my computer for the first time. I also still like the cheesy name "Kandy", the triple pun on "Handy", the German word for mobile phone, "Candy", and the KDE naming convention. It once was a sweet application, so please bear with me. Read More

Other distributions certainly like to pick up stuff that Novell/SUSE are developing (and have been using for long). Recent examples include Ubuntu and Mandriva starting to integrate AppArmor or Oracle porting YaST to their Enterprise Linux and RHEL. On a smaller scale, the sysinfo:/ KIO slave has been improved and packaged for several distributions. Read More

KWord in trunk (we recently got an alpha2 out) is not the same piece of software as it was in KOffice 1.x, its gotten such a makeover both internally as externally that its largely unrecognizable (in a good way). This also means that old known functionality may have problems due to it being new code. Read More

LinuxMCE launched their new version 0704 today. It's an addon CD to Kubuntu 7.04 which can set your your computer to serve media around the house or play it with their beautiful bling interface. It can even run your home. Watch the video walkthrough for what this baby can do (or just read the features list). Read More