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Dave Thomas, the Pragmatic Programmer, made a recent announcement on ruby-talk about a new book by Caleb Tennis called 'Rapid GUI Development with QtRuby'. It is about 90 pages long and costs only $8.50 for a personalised pdf version. The idea of the 'Friday' small book series is something to try out on Friday afternoons. Congratulations to Caleb for getting the book out! Why not try out some QtRuby programming one Friday? The book will help you get going, and anything that helps lower the barrier to entry for Qt/KDE programming is great news. Read More

I hope someone could be interested in implementing semantic browser widget for KDE4 while playing with Qt4 drawing features... For example, similar to news.com's News Plasma. Quite suitable complement for KDE4's search engines. Read More

Last weekend, in a pub with some friends,we started to talk about aliens abductions and we weren't able to understand why an advanced race able of travelling between the stars will come here to do anal probes ... Read More

Last week I had the privilage of meeting Ariya at ScotLUG. I introduced him to Irn-Bru and we discussed Speedcrunch, KSpread, Kubuntu and his top secret project (he didn't let on what it was). Read More

The sun eclipse was also visible from Romania, altough it was not that spectacular. In 1999 was a full eclipse that I was supposed to see from the mountains, but minutes before the eclipse started, the sky was filled by clouds and some minutes after it ended, it cleared up. Go figure. ;-) Now it was cloudy, but cleared up before the eclipse started. I made some digital and non-digital photos. They are not so spectacular as the sone shined quite bright (you couldn't notice the eclipse from the amount of light if you did not know about), and I don't want to become blind, so I used a filtering material to make the photos. This way only the sun and the moon is visible. A picture can be seen here.

Yesterday in IRC (#kde-devel) this happened: Oct 03 17:13:28 <isaac> http://www.wesnoth.org/start/1.0/ Oct 03 17:13:32 <isaac> we have just got wesnoth 1.0 out :) Oct 03 17:13:59 <Narishma> is there a klik package ? Oct 03 17:14:06 <misty> what is wesnoth? Oct 03 17:14:18 <Narishma> misty: a strategy game OK -- what Misty asked could have been my own question too. Now I know it -- 'cause I even run the game in the meanwhile. The reason was: the above chatter had a continuation. And looking at the backlog, you'll see just how easy and fast it is to build klik bundles from .deb packages that are compiled for Sarge: Read More

I have now extended a certain myscreen feature kde-wide... buzz ratings! Check the charts at http://myscreen.org/buzz As this is the first calculation, naturally the "change" indicator is flat - however, I will probably run the calculation once a day. Read More

I have been busy working on Datakiosk and am nearing a new release. I know many folks are a bit puzzled by this application, so to dispel the wonder I have cooked up a pretty cool demonstration of Datakiosk thanks to Klik. This new release will add some pretty significant new features. Read More

The weekend thusfar has turned out to be pretty productive. Sunshine, KMenu work, SVN access.. I got a lot done, and I still have a few more waking hours! This has been the first weekend in a few months I havnt had to travel or work, so I am enjoying every minute of it (and spending it WORKING anyway :) Read More

I finally got to Castelló after a 1 hour and 30 minutes delay waiting to get in to the plane at the airport. Tomorrow (Saturday) I'll give a KDE user talk at the iParty, at 16:00 . I initially plan to show some apps in depth (as well as some "tricks" or "hidden features" on some of them). I'll show konqueror, kontact (+kolab), kopete, amarok, digikam, kimdaba, klick, kstars (to show how to see the sun eclipse that will be seen in Spain next monday) ... is there any other application or some idea of what you think that should be shown? Read More