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I've been thinking about some of the stuff that Frans English has brought up about KDE Control Centre. While I don't agree with some of the things he's written, there is certainly a case for cleanup in some of the hardware settings. Read More

Annoyed at the lack of directory image browser for Konqueror and the primitive image viewer I turned Gwenview into a Konqueror KPart. You can get it from kdeextragear-1 CVS, all comments are welcome. Read More

usability is one of the last avenues of software development to have it's methodologies challenged/changed using open source mechanisms. even many practicing/promoting usability in design in Free Software projects usually attempt to do so using draconian and/or closed methods. let's stop the insanity and open source usability. and here's your chance to join the revolution. read on to see how you can change the face of usability studies by doing what so many have jabbered on about but so few (if any) are actually doing. and it'll only take a few minutes of your time. Read More

Okay, so I made some progress implementing the Google search bar. You can now find it in CVS in kdeaddons/konq-plugins/searchbar. As it's just a simple Konqueror plugin, it doesn't have to get in your way. It uses the default searchprovider as selected in Konqueror under the Web Shortcuts settings, so it's not limited to Google only. I hope to get some feedback from you so I can improve on it. Read More

I recently read a Mac magazine (borrowed from the local library - I wouldn't have bought it :)) that had an interesting idea about extending iCal into an associative tool. Read More

The most annoying thing when writing public APIs is that it's a lot of redundant typing. A good API implementation should check all arguments and return a useful error message if an argument is invalid. Good API documentation should document which arguments values are valid and which return values are possible. Both tasks are work-intensive and annoying for the developer, which is probably one of the reasons why there so many bad APIs. Here is a Java snippet with Sun-style argument handling: Read More

Anyone who is interested in database systems integration may know ODBC can be usable. Currently, development of KexiDB integration with ODBC functionality is started. So, I've updated Kexi Developers Wiki Pages with a small research on ODBC in KexiDB Drivers context. Read More

As I downloaded KDE 3.2 RC1 some while ago and KDE 3.2.0 today, I started using Konqueror as my primary browser as it has improved immense since 3.1. Now I want to share some ideas for improving Konqueror the Browser. Read More

Holy f***ing CHRIST people! I haven't read the blogs for a while due to being simultaneously busy beyond belief and rather uninterested in anything further than 3 feet from my own naval, but I decided to take a gander at what's been up here of late and ... it's crazyness! People are spouting off about fd.o when they obviously don't know the first thing about it. Let me cluebat some of you back onto this side of the International Stupid Line (which runs straight through Elbonia and the Far Side universe, IIRC). Read More

so i've gotten a couple hours sleep now and i'm calmer. thanks to work for waking me up; i just love fixing code over the phone. i still haven't finished the stupid "Everything that's new or changed in 3.2" page thanks to my 3.2 install being minorly screwed right now. i'll probably hijak my system at work to finish it off. anyways. i reread my last blog and boy was i in a pissy, albeit mildly humourous, mood. "cluebat you back to this side of the International Stupid Line".. hehe.. i'm such an ass. back to sleep.