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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

Finally it was the day for playing with the QTransformations and QGV. and the result is kinda nice, but not perfect still . in the coming day's i'll probably make it more functional and put the 3D flipping effect in to more practical use. so basically what I have done is add some basic icons zooming and rotate the QGV around Y axis which make the view flip like magic. video is here : http://upload.ruphy.org/raptor3dflip.ogg Read More

I started Jambi package to Mandriva at Akademy this year, but process was complex since we're dealing with buildsystem changes, Java new packages, Qt4 layout changing, so lots of barriers to get the task done. My personal effort on this is have next Mandriva releases be ready for developers in all cases, to use best available Qt and KDE technologies as possible, improving our situation from the past. Then, yesterday i had all things in really good shape, and finally a good initial package could be produced. I tested many environments. gcj/ecj was having some compile issues, but java 1.6 sun and the best, java 1.7 icedtea worked as a breeze. Linking against system Qt 4.3.1 was not a problem at all. Great that both i586 and x86_64 arches are compiled fine as well ( thanks for David Walluck tips ). So the major trouble in my special case is the install process, as Jambi not provide a proper install script, and even a proper layout to install. I decided make launcher and designer-jambi scripts to lauch on doc and devel package respectively, and separate Jambi jar and libraries in different packages, and most of files fall down on same qt4 dir on Mandriva. We fall down with this result: Read More

Just three words: I hate it. The deadline was 9th of august, just one feature to finish and what happened? It's late. No feature, no release. That's why I hate feature driven development. I want bloody deadlines!