Mostly the data matters!
Wednesday, 10 May 2006
Some would even say "only the apps and data matter". Why? The next iteration of the desktop itself may be pretty, but it is just...desktop (yeah, more feature-rich than competition).
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I love the desert
Tuesday, 9 May 2006
I live in Tucson, Arizona, in the heart of the Sonoran desert, among the Saguaro and Javelina. I love it here; the desert has a unique kind of beauty: vast, sparse, ancient, and enduring. I love the spectacular sunsets, and the spicy smell after a long-needed rain. I love the tough resilience of desert life, which still somehow manages to reveal a fragile beauty now and then.
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KDE's Summer of Code Projects
Tuesday, 9 May 2006
With less than 2 hours to go to submit applications, students must be busy smoothing the final edges of their texts before submitting to Google. And as it turns out, we're getting some very interesting ideas for Summer of Code this year. I hope the quality of the proposals is indicative of the quality of the code we'll see in the next three months.
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LinuxTag + KOffice and Köln
Tuesday, 9 May 2006
Last week I was at LinuxTag in Germany which always is a lot of fun! Not only in seeing new people, but just as much in making contacts with the various other vendors / projects there. The event has the subtitle "Where .com meets .org" for a reason ;)
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Open Document Format is now an ISO standard!
Tuesday, 9 May 2006
Its a week ago that this happened, but I have not seen any kde-news or blogs about it. So here goes;
KOffice native fileformat, Open Document Format is now ISO/IEC 26300 with just some bureaucratic things left, but no real way to stop this from going through. More on Andy Updegroves blog.
Dead Trees
Monday, 8 May 2006
After seeing Seele's list of books I decided that I liked the idea. There's something in my personality that likes collecting physical media -- books, CDs, records. It's obvious when I move and I have a tiny amount of furniture, a box of clothes, a few things from the kitchen and then like 10 boxes of books and a pile of pro-audio gear.
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Filtering
Monday, 8 May 2006
A few weeks ago a Gwenview user asked if it would be possible to implement file name filtering. I initially answered that while the idea was nice, I didn't have time to work on it.
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processing my todos...
Monday, 8 May 2006
I sometimes wonder if my list of todos could grow any longer... Is it because I can't say no, because I'm interested in too many things, or because daily work too often keeps me away from my "fun" projects? Probably a mix of all =)
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We want YOU for FrOSCon!
Monday, 8 May 2006
For the first time, FrOSCon will take place this year in St. Augustin near Bonn, the former capital of Germany. Due to its location, it is also in reasonably short distance for most KDE contributors from the BeNeLux countries.
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Kraziness
Sunday, 7 May 2006
And now a message from our sponsor...
A special offer for KDE developers! Now you can run the Krazy Code Checker locally on your code! Here's how: % svn TOP_OF_YOUR_KDE_SVN_TREE % svn update -N trunk/playground/devtools % cd trunk/playground/devtools % svn up krazy % cd krazy % ./install # installs into /usr/local. edit $TOP to change the destination dir If all goes well, krazy should be installed, as well as the krazy man page. Example Krazy runs: % krazy *.cpp *.h % find . -name "*.cpp" -o -name "*.h" | xargs krazy Note that I'll continue to add checks, so you might want to 'svn update' regularly. And don't forget to read the krazy man page for more info, including how to write your own checker plugins.