It still surprises me, after 10 years (re: KDEPrint junior job)
Thursday, 25 August 2005
After posting a very short announce about the available KDEPrint junior job 5 days ago, I received no less than 5 offers to help from Andre Gemuend, James McArthur, Arnould Brice, Alfredo Cerutti and Steve Starr. I even received three distinct sets of replacement screenshots.
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paper prototyping for fun and profit
Wednesday, 24 August 2005
A few weeks ago, we did a session on [w:paper prototyping|paper prototyping]* at the Berlin Open Software Usability meeting. Sven was currently implementing a new PDF import dialog for the GIMP, so we chose it for our exercise. In his blog, he describes the procedure and confronts the results of our prototyping with the current dialog. Antenna was our testperson and took some nice pics.
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2 Days before liftoff
Monday, 22 August 2005
And still a lot of shitty things to do before :( Like finally setup the webserver and the email server that will host the M.2 pages and mailing list :) but that can wait when I'm back in September :D
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Ho ho ho now I have a wattmeter
Monday, 22 August 2005
I recently moved into my new house, which also means that I have to pay for electricity directly. Wanting to do know how much power things are really using in the computer room, I went out and bought a wattmeter. It measure power use at the wall. I thought that other people might be interested in seeing some "real world" measured values.
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Speed up!
Monday, 22 August 2005
I installed OpenSUSE this weekend and - I guess you've heard it before - it boots in about 10 seconds!! It's amazing when this happens to your own computer :-)
Spell checkers are sometimes funny
Sunday, 21 August 2005
..especially online tools: try to enter KDE here :)
Too bad that entering "GNOME" there is boring task: it's just correct.
Report on IDG's Developer's World, Aug 17th
Saturday, 20 August 2005
Here goes a summarised report of the talk I presented. The presentation (in Portuguese) is at http://developer.kde.org/~thiago/presentations/IDG-17-08-2005.pdf (source and beamer theme: trunk/promo/presentations/2005_08_SaoPaulo_IDG_Developers_World_pt-BR)
The conference was IDG Developer's World, held here in São Paulo on Aug 17th. The target audience was mostly corporate people. Helio asked me whether they were IT managers or higher up: I can't tell. I know I saw a lot of badges with company names, including consulting companies, but I don't know what positions these people hold.
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Summary display in KMail
Saturday, 20 August 2005
Since a few days, I feel the lack of a summary mode in KMail.
I have many tens of folders and subfolders, on three accounts (local, work, uni) and I have KMail filters putting things al overy this stuffy arborescence.
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Een blik in de toekomst ...
Friday, 19 August 2005
<a href"http://www.kde.nl/future/">Een blik in de toekomst is a corner on our Dutch KDE website were we offer Dutch translations of the series 'This Month in SVN ...' done by our lovely Jess . Currently the August edition of This Month in SVN now also has a Dutch translation thanks to Bram and Jos*.
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