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A year and a half ago I first tried out Interview and noted my thoughts on it. In the last few days I've revisited it and have to say that the API is still pretty quirky. Read More

amarok is a really great piece of KDE software. Its ever increasing popularity also led it to be one of the favorite and most frequently klik-ed packages of users. The nightly builds from SVN were gaining really enthusiastic user comments. Read More

understand concept like "use the right tool for the job" after spending a few weeks (2) trying to salvage a project (shouldn't have accepted this contract) I come to realise once again that some persons still choose the technologies for their project based on how high the buzzword is on the "Pointy-haired boss" scale Read More

Mentioned in an older blog, I ported KMPlayer to the Nokia770. Given that the GUI of a full KDE desktop and from this device are so different, I doesn't made sense to make fake QWidget classes for this port. However for utility classes like QString and KURL it did make sense. This weekend I ported the RealPix support to the N770 and benefiting greatly from these wrapper classes. The diff between these source files are no more than some include statements and lines where QString -> String. Read More

Every now and again you hear someone complaining about C++. You will probably also have heard that C sucks. The two statements are of course linked; the following code is valid C, but will never compile. Read More

One of our users suggested that it would be useful to have some mechanism by which members of the KStars user community could meet and interact, either a mailing list or a web forum. I totally agree. I know there are many people using KStars, and there are lots of reasons that they would want a way to talk with each other, share custom content that they've made, rant about their most hated bugs, whatever. Read More

... is that usually came with a not long enough wire :-) After some hours spent in front of my home computer, even been a extremly good Stanton headphone, i've become tired of make my chair pass with his wheels over the wire again, and again, and again.. Yes, no damage of wire, it's all working, but i really want a wireLESS one finally. The problem is as i live in a building, and like sound is a not so gentle volume, i think that people at my side would not like the weirdo sounds after 22:00, so i need the phones for the sake of neighbours sanity. "We want freedom, to do what we want ... we wanna get loaded: ( Easy Rider moment on Primal Scream seminal song "loaded", album Screamadelica ). In my case, i want freedom ... to go to my refrigerator without taking out my phones ! Ah, for reference, at this right moment is playing "Bad Base" from B.T.B.

Pretty Things One of my coworkers (Thorsten -- also does some work on KArm) saw my background today and suggested that I should put some of those that I use (which are generally from my own photos) up online. I've since obliged him. The thumbnails from a couple of my favorites are below: Read More

I've been a buzzy little bee for the past few weeks. I would have posted a few days ago, but it ended up turning in to a DOT article. I started my new job a few weeks ago. Yay for working at home, but I'm having trouble leaving work at work and actually "going" home. Last night I came home from class at 2300 to make phone calls and write emails until Justin reminded me I was "home". Its easy to roll out of bed and go to work, but hard to leave the keyboard at a certain time and stop being a IxD for the rest of the night. Read More

FOSDEM at the weekend was great, there's something really exciting about having all the different Free Software communities together. As well as the KDE talks I went to see mjg59 talking about ACPI (but sadly failed to catch up with him regarding Kubuntu laptop support), the debian-installer talk, Automated Display Configuration for X and making SuSE packages. We sold out of KDE merchandise and gave out 800 Kubuntu CDs. I even managed to get a bed on the sleeper back home defeating the best efforts of the staff at Waterloo. Read More