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The year's greatest free software conference, Akademy 2007 is only two weeks away. We have some top stuff lined up for you. Keynotes will be from Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical, Lars Knoll of Trolltech and Dan Kohn from Linux Foundation. The rest of the conference programme is packed with goodies including an opening from local member of parliament Patrick Harvie and a closing with the Akademy Awards (the winning names are written inside a sealed envelope on my desk, anyone trying to steal it will have to get through my laser intrusion system). After the conference on Saturday we'll be having pizza and music at the chateau, remember to fill in your food preferences or you won't get any pizza. Read More

About two days ago I wrote about changes in the way browser plugins are ging to be handled. At that time, based on the information I gathered from two threads on kfm-devel (linked to from the other blog entry), I assumed that the new Adobe Flash player plugin would just use XEmbed for the visual part but still be an old style in-process plugin with all its difficulties. Read More

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 5 was announced today (major changes): most exciting novelty are additional one CD installation media giving you a rather complete English desktop. Compared to the default desktop installations from DVD most of the missing applications are games. Before installation (and of course after) from these medias one can register online repositories to get the full default SUSE desktop experience. Read More

Now that there is a final release of QtJambi, I've downloaded it and had a good look at the sources. I'm happy to report that it looks very well written, very thorough and with much attention paid to issues such as performance tuning and working well with Java threads. Read More

so since 6 weeks I'm now working at Kitware, Clifton Park, NY, USA. Since it's the first time that I'm in America this means a lot of new impressions for me. Friendly people, suburbs, beautiful nature, huge cars, baseball everywhere and much more. Are there actually any other KDE developers here in the Capital Region ? Read More

After a weekend of being slightly ill and not sleeping because of that, as well as the hot and wet wheather, I get up at 7am on Monday morning. I have to get to a meeting at the other side of The Netherlands about the OOXML standardization track in ISO, which starts at 10. Traffic was pretty Ok and I actually get there 5 minutes early! After some 10 minutes with most of the people having arrived we learn that the time mentioned in the Agenda was incorrect and the meeting is actually starting at 10:30. As mentioned in another communication. Well, that explains the confused and surprised looks from the organizer when most of the people arrived around 10 :) Read More

Or rather Flash news? One of Adobe's Flash player developers, Tinic Uro, today used his blog to tell us users about upcoming features. Among the list of changes we can read about a change regarding the Linux Flash plugin: The Linux plugin now uses the XEmbed protocol. This is work in progress. The downside is that konqueror and Opera do not support this right now, so the Flash plugin will not work until these vendors update their plugin support. Read More

QT/Jambi, recently released, works on Solaris 10 with Sun Studio 11 and QT 4.3.0. Mandatory pretty screenshot: http://www.stefanteleman.org/qtjambi/jambisolaris.jpg. And some patches for Sun Studio/Solaris: http://www.stefanteleman.org/qtjambi/. :-)

The long awaited 1.1.3 release is available. These were long months when I shared my time between 1.1.x development, 2.x development (careful porting) and Windows version. Aside from many fixes, Kexi 1.1.3 even brings new features, requested by users: Read More

I have been invited to join a subcommittee at the Dutch national institute for standards, NEN. This subcommittee is about document formats, and thus the new OOXML format is being discussed there as that is in its 5 month period for the fast track as requested by Ecma. Read More