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This is an attempt to establish awareness of KDE programmers for problems that might arise on large installation sites. I am expiriencing them at Uni from time to time, where several hunderts of clients run a FC1 based KDE installation. So I decided to start a little series that might be an eye-opener for people that usually only code with the computer as a single workstation in mind and as a reminder for those who know about the difficulties that may arise in corporate environments. Feel free to continue this series in your blog or send ideas for more "enterprise development problem" quickies my way. Read More

I went to another great Canberra Linux Users Group meeting last night. Alex Satrapa did a demonstration of setting up Samba with OpenLDAP, OpenSSL, etc. Of course, doing a Samba demo in front of Andrew Tridgell (who is a fairly regular attendee, and a KDE user) resulted in a few comments, and a short cameo when Tridge explained what is happening with Samba 4. Basically there is going to be a single deaemon, listening on about 10-15 ports. In addition to supporting some of the multiple streams required for the fileserver side, it will have the ability to act as an Active Directory server, and SWAT will be built in (perhaps on the grounds that every server design eventually evolves to include HTTP :-) ). After watching a 2.5 hours setup by someone who'd done it twice before that day, clearly it needs to be easier, and the integrated daemon should help that. Read More

It seems that German bus drivers don't celebrate American Thanksgiving. Funny. Somedays I love a nice, well funded public transportation system. Somedays, like say, today, it makes me want to break things. Read More

Today I made desktop wallpapers use .desktop files for their metadata. Hopefully this means the image names will be translated. I also made it possible to use SVG images as wallpapers. Read More

yup nearly a month since I lost my job. Let just say I take it with philosophy, meaning it's probably the occasion to get a better one, and I hope. What I did in that month, first of all I spent time working on some of my biggest shortcoming, wrote 2 killer resumes (one in french, my native language and one in english), spent time to seriously learning German and Dutch (just for the fun of it) did some contract for previous customers, spent time to find the true love ... and the most important of all I enjoyed it!!! and it's been a while since I got this feeling for something I did. :)

Last night I made Umbrello use tabs for it's diagrams. KTabWidget does the job but it misses the nice feauture that Konqueror and Akregator have which is shrinking tabs to fit available width. It would be nice if this feature was in KTabWidget directly. Read More

Michael Pyne proposed a way to dump C++ symbols from a shared library I'd suggest something like nm -C library name. man nm offers lots more.

I am invited to give a talk to a Business Summit on Thursday, in La Serena city. As I am used to, the audience are business people and my talk will have to be very general. My current plan right now is to talk about technology as a tool for entrepeneurs, opensource, copyright, licenses, creative commons, and other cool stuff, and of course, can't wait to decide where to put a big KDE logo somewhere in a slide to tell them about the project. Known city for me since it is where I lived before coming to University in Santiago. Read More

Uhm, after reading other developers journals for some time, I logged in for first time... this is my first post yay.

It has been a while since I blogged - a bit too much real-world work, plus a concerted effort on the Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA) are to blame. Right now, I have QCA2 running, I have two plugin providers working - one based on OpenSSL, and the other based on GNU libgcrypt, and I have 595 passing unit tests. I'm particularly proud of the unit tests, because they give me a lot of confidence in the plugins. In terms of functionality, we have hashing (MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA0, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512 and RIPEMD160), keyed hashes (HMAC-SHA1, HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-RIPEMD160) and some ciphers (AES128, AES192 and AES256 in ECB, CBC and CFB modes). Supporting that we have a basic random number provider, a secure byte array, and some arbitrary precision integer classes. It isn't really ready for prime time, but its emerging nicely. Read More