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Last week, I came across a user survey on blog clients. The aim of the study is to identify and understand the users' goals and tasks, tools and features they currently use for blogging as well as problems and changes they would like to see in their clients. The special thing about it: The developers ask all these questions before actually starting to program, namely in the planning phase. The project I am talking about has just registered on OpenUsability, the desktop and handheld blogging software "Expressions" (OSS, of course). Read More

Introducing: KExtProcess Those who have tracked my KDE commits this year will have noticed that most of them went to KExtProcess, my pet Swiss Army Knife for anyone who writes code that calls external applications. Read More

Took the last exam of my studies at long last. :-) Received a KDE-related job offer and accepted it. :-) Booked my flights for Akademy. :-) Unfortunately I will not be able to attend whole Akademy but have to depart on the evening of the last conference day because my work, more on that later, starts on 1st September. So I will miss one or two talk slots (not so important as Fluendo will likely stream/record them), the coding marathon week with all its BoFs (pretty please write summaries for all who cannot attend!), the common city tour and maybe the GPG keysigning party depending on when it will happen. :-( Read More

This was simply horrible, spent all my time doing saving the ass of "certified" IT peoples ... so I didn't have anytime to work on M.2, or when I got some I was drunk so the code quality probably improved a little :) Read More

1. Purchasing a new Laptop... So, this weekend is Massachusetts tax free holiday and I'm thinking of using the occasion to purchase a new laptop. I was wondering if anyone out there in KDE land had experience with the ThinkPad T43 1871? I can currently get this laptop at discount through a friend for $1,274.00. Is it a good deal? Should I get something else? Anyone have a strong opinion one way or another? Read More

this blog is to make ktech on #kde-devel happy :) currently busy eating my lunch ... yes it's another can of sardines (it's only think me and my cat can agree on) and a ramen noodles pack .... Read More

I've found this gem while searching for some old contributors to KDE: Enjoy www.kde.org in 1998: http://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/linux/www.kde.org/. See specially this announcement.

It's nice to see the amount of people on Planet KDE rapidly growing, indicating a thriving KDE developer community. :-) Let me point out two special tags which some blog newbies don't seem to be aware off: Read More

As time goes by KDE distributors come and go. It seems in the meantime I'm one of the more long-time contributors, I got my cvs account late 1999 I think (with low but quite constant activity...). Thanks go to David Faure, without him I probably wouldn't be around here today ! :-) Read More

KDE 3.5 Alpha source tarballs are up on the FTP servers. It's really Alpha quality so you don't will see a big announcement splash for it. One day before tagging KMail got completely messed up. When it was tagged two modules didn't compile at all. Several modules don't compile with --enable-final, Coolo ultimately gave up on fixing it. This week there were problems with the bandwidth of a server feeding the FTP mirrors so enough reasons for the long delay already. openSUSE going live with SUSE 10.0 Beta and people watching reactions for sure didn't speed things up either. Read More