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 Remember last diagram? The purple blob called algorithm?, It has taken shape. It’s a relief to have deviced it completely in my head, as that was the part that had me the most concerned about the program. I felt that if I couldn’t device one quickly, I would not finish the program in time. That way of thinking has accompained me since I learned to survive in higher education: my disastrous ability to get distracted from study (or anything that resembles work or isn’t pleasing) meant that I had to device ways to get myself to do things in time or at least before the final deadlines. That role as been fulfilled by my conscience, that evil overlord with a whip that keeps reminding me of aaaaaaall the things I still have to do, with the highest priority targets earning me more mental whipping per unit of time. Look at the images below, can you distinguish which direction the lines are moving?. Can you find a difference between both?. |
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| .. is the total number of countries where the Multimedia/Edu sprint participants in Randa are from. You read that right: seventeen! We had developers from Austria, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Holland (the Netherlands), Italy, Norway, Peru, Poland, Scotland (yeah, I know…), Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine and the USA.
Impressive, isn’t it? So sad I had to leave this afternoon already, but here are a few highlights of the weekend: we had a very talented chef who spent his holiday to prepare our yummy meals, very productive sessions in the various rooms of the huge building during the day,  gorgeous weather, the worlds most beautiful mountain right around the corner ( I am biased  ) and of course the mandatory Raclette evening, prepared by Mr. Fux:  And here is the man who made all this possible: Mario, the most efficient Sprint ...read more...
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 I'm currently in Lisbon, Portugal at the Real-Time Conference 2010. I won't write about it just now, since it just started and I'm tired.  But here's something that just surprised me. If only all laptop batteries would improve this way:
design capacity: 69000 mWh
remaining capacity: 72880 mWh
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The KDE-Edu team is very productive in Randa. On the second day we started with a Logo session.
Our eyes keep seeing logos in the everyday life and we have been wanting a logo for years.
At the meeting, Alexandre from Brazil, a professional designer, watched us the whole first day when we talked about who we are, what are our targets and about our programs. He then started to work on a logo concept: he defined a few verbs about KDE-Edu and came up with the conclusion that KDE-Edu makes people's knowledge grow. So the main idea behind the concept
is "growing knowledge". The logo is still in its infancy so please don't comment like "I don't like it" or whatever without being productive. We as a group, after the logo was presented, did not do a "like/hate" unproductive waste of time session.
We agreed that the concept idea was good. One thing Alex also said is that if a logo looks good as a stamp, in black and white, it'll look good anywhere.
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| KMyMoney is now in kdereview. It has to go through a 2-week review before being approved to move to extragear. Given our development experience (we are by no means a new kid on the block), I expect it to be fine. As part of the process, I had to prepare a small summary about the current MyMoney development situation, which I think is worth sharing here:
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| So, first coding day. in the morning we had an awesome breakfast then fastly we went upstairs, to the 4th floor and opened our laptopput it in the back of a red VW microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the city dump. up there was the Multiemdia people with the KMix, Kdelive, Amarok, VLC, and others talking about multimedia, and also Apol, Me, Alexandre, Annma, Sput and such talking about edu stuff. We had to drink a lot of bottled water, since programming is something that really tires a persons muscle, it had a funny taste and was a bit yellowish. I had to get proper water in the tap.  24 * 9 bottles of beer on the wall.
 The big brother watches us from his tower of wisdom.
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| hi! just a quick note that a new method of reporting bugs in KDE's bugzilla has been pushed to the live server after setting on the test server for quite a while.
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| Just a quickie: If you haven’t yet submitted your design for a KDE software label then you have just over a week (until 31 May) to do so. There have been some great additions and refinements in the last few weeks and picking the best is going to be a difficult task. But we don’t mind if you make it still harder 
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| (This post was published on Friday, but I put in a wrong tag and I didn't get aggregated, so, republished)Although I've been hacking on my GSoC project for quite a while, doing little experiments and getting my mind around various factors involved, this week was my first official coding period, since that was what I had in my timeline.The first piece to implement is the kioslave to browse UPnP
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I've been looking for a local store which offers a colour sprectromitor and chanced upon the spyder3. I have to say that it is a total let-down. It doesn't work on Linux to begin with. I feared this going in but the gracious return policy at the store allows me to buy things and simply return them within two weeks without any reason - my standard answer is "It doesn't work with linux". They smile and give me my money back - great store, they get a large part of my earnings :-)
In the case of the spyder3, it didn't even work with windows, really. No more whites, everything is blue, the colour profile it creates is horrible. I tried it with daylight, incandescent, etc and to be honest I can do much better with my eye. Definitely returning it when I get back from my trip to London and the Libre Graphics Meeting. Crap in a box for 99? if you ask me.
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| We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 124. URL: http://news.opensuse.org/2010/05/22/opensuse-weekly-news-issue-124-is-out/ TOC - 1 Editors Note
- 2 Announcements
- 2.1 openSUSE News: openSUSE Strategy Meeting
- 2.2 Pascal Bleser: How to add the openSUSE 11.3 counter to your site
- 3 Status Updates
- 3.1 Distribution
- 3.1.1 Javier Llorente: apache2-icons-oxygen is now in Factory
- 3.1.2 Bugzilla
- 4 Team Reports
- 4.1 Build Service Team
- 4.1.1 OBS: Release 1.8.0 RC1 Release Candidate
- 4.1.2 Build Team Meeting
- 4.1.3 Build Service Statistics
- 4.2 Mono Team
- 4.2.1 MonoDroid – Mono for Android Beta Program
- 4.3 openFATE Team
- 4.3.1 Q7Basic
- 4.3.2 Better maintenance of src.rpm changes
- 4.3.3 auto remove unused dependencies using YaST and zypper
- 4.3.4 GUI for reviewing and analysing solver testcases
- 4.3.5 Statistics
- 4.4 Testing Team
- 4.4.1 Larry Finger: openSUSE-Testing Report for the Weekly News – May 22
- 4.5 Translation Team
- 4.6 Wiki-Team
- 4.6.1 Rajko Matovic: Wiki structure: New tools
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| If you want to try out Qt 4.7 and the interesting new world of Qt Quick ("from now on /the/ way to make GUIs"), Kubuntu 10.04 users can try it from the experimental PPA. The Qt Creator packages there have Qt Quick designer integration.
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| Mike Arthur, the man, the legend, the red haired Scott joins KDEMU. What is KDEMU you ask? It’s an *all* KDE show that will cover a wide range of KDE topics, releases, interviews with developers, etc.
 If you are a KDE contributor and want to talk about your work in KDE or just want to co-host a show or two, feel free to email me or use the contact form in my website. Check KDE and the Masters of the Universe Episode 2 out and tell us what you think! COMMENT ON IT. :-)
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| Since api.kde.org has been down a lot lately, I generated some Qt Assistant-compatible documentation from kdelibs, and put it up on my server, and also linked to it from the topic in the #kde-devel IRC channel.
But since not everyone visits IRC, I thought I’d mention it here too.
So, fetch kde45.qch and save it somewhere save, launch Qt Assistant, go to Edit
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I arrived on Thursday afternoon in Randa, in a beautiful scenery with big mountains and white summits. The weather is quite sunny (not that we have been out a lot today ;-) and the house is very nice. We started working today with a together session to get to know who each other is and how we can share knowledge. Then we split and in the KDE-Edu side, Frederik started with suggesting topics we could work on, community-related for KDE-Edu. You can follow the proceedings here:
http://community.kde.org/Multimedia/Sprint2010/Schedule#Friday.2C_May_21.
We defined the schedule and had quite a full and productive day. We're noting everything down and we try to keep focused on the topic.
We're focused in defining what is the KDE-Edu project more than hacking widly although we branched kdeedu for 4.5 and opened trunk for 4.6 as an exceptional measure.
It's very nice to be two groups (plus some satellites) as we feel more part of KDE overall and we benefit from other people energy and input.
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After a long development cycle focused almost exclusively on KMid, it's time to give some love to other projects. I've been working lately on KMetronome, a MIDI metronome for KDE and ALSA. It is the oldest project of my little family.
The only issue in KMetronome's tracker is this one year old request, which has suggested the title of this post. The "Weird Metronome" is a popular simple MIDI metronome for Windows, which is the origin of "Open Metronome".
The major advantage of Weird / Open Metronome is the definition of rhythm patterns. The drawback is that it only works on Windows. It may be a good idea to make a Linux port. His definition of patterns is very simple and elegant, if somewhat limited. It has two branches: one producing MIDI events, and the other producing digital audio.
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| "The talk of the town is that the next version of Kubuntu will have a new default browser, replacing Konqueror, the longtime KDE favorite.
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| Not really… It is actually 7 months of “kdelibs/plasma” (or libplasma) repository activity in 15 minutes (but that would not sound really as attractive as a post title). Today a fellow co-worker showed to me a really nice application: gource (like ‘source’ but with ‘g’ letter, maybe for ‘graphics’) written by Andrew Caudwell. This application offers some really nifty source code control visualization and supports git/mercurial and other source code control systems using some hacks. Since internet speed (not even talking about latency…) in Manaus/Amazonas is lacking to say the least, I decided to use git-svn to checkout a specific revision of kdelibs/plasma directory and later I did a rebase to update the code with the trunk. So, for your amusement, enjoy. I have some hints about this visualization: - in the first seconds there is an explosion of files (because I didn’t checkout the code from the very first commit in svn, is like the touched files warped inside of logs)
- the code seems to be rather modular (there are a well defined set of ...read more...
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| It started quite ok, I had a bug in my job that I had to fix just before going to the airport, didn’t fixed… I just got no time for losing the flight. took a bus and met Helio with his brother near the bus station, then we moved torwards the airport with tears in our eyes walking our way to S
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Hi guys.
I don't usually like to cry, or vine (or do I? :P ) but this is special... I got myself into some tough times financially (no, I'm not asking for money :P )
...Bah!!, I never asked for help, so it's kind of awkward...
So, anyhow, if you know of anyone who needs an artist for in-game content, web design, GUI design, fliers, posters, or any other kind of graphic design - please mention me. Preeety please?
And here I put together a small portfolio at http://it-s.deviantart.com/ so you can show them what I can do (and actually see for yourself too :) )
Sorry for littering the planet...
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Lokalize, the KDE translation tool, saw an evolutional development during 4.4-4.5 period. Most of the changes are bug fixes. I'd like to say 'thanks' to Papp Laszlo, Hungarian translator and Chakra developer (among other things), for doing a lot of work in this regard.
As for the features, the most essential changes are:
* filestats is cached on a disk now, so the initial project scan is alot faster now.
* translation memories are improved in terms of target language: now Lokalize should be more suitable for separate projects (when .po files for all languages are in the same folder)
* simple project creation is back
* glossary storage is rewritten to use QDom classes (should eliminate any previous related crashes).
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| Inspired by Aaron's post I added "solid interface" to the list of features I want to implement until KDE 4.3 in KGpg. While I had some spare time before the theoretical driving lessons started (my fire department decided to pay my truck driving license) I started digging into this. Well, add a few minutes while the teacher fought with the screensaver of the beamer and the like and I had at least the "key server" action properly disabled at the end. Back home I couldn't wait to plug the cord in and out to see if everything worked properly. To my own surprise I did everything right and it simply worked. Some small cleanups later I added three more places that needed to know about the online status and I was done. I was absolutely surprised about how easy that was. Copy the right library from the tutorial4 CMakeLists.txt to link to, add one header, some slots, done. Wow. I'm really impressed.
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| Long time, no post... So, this probably is the first post *from* the multimedia sprint, after an interesting internet setup which a fire alarm was a crucial component  As usual, lost airplane connections could not be missing in my journey, this time relaxed for the company of two brazilian coleagues, Tomaz e Alexandre. In the end, we passed by two Portugal cities before arrive in Gen
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| This started as a comment on Ade’s blog post about Hugin, but I don’t think comments should be bigger than the original blog post, so I’ve moved it here instead Ade makes some interesting points about the GPL, particularly the opportunity to exclude certain jurisdictions where the use of the software would infringe a patent. He also raises the question of whether distribution of source code – as opposed to binaries – can be counted as infringement and reflects on the trend to explicitly claim for a medium containing code that would cause the invention to be ‘realised’ on a computer. Background If you’d like an elegant and (generally) very well argued primer and history of what can be patented in UK law see this judgement (from 2006, things have changed a bit since then). The judge in that case, Peter Prescott, was actually only standing in and therefore shouldn’t really have rocked the boat by going back to basics as he did and tearing up a whole ...read more...
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| wow, whta has it been… two weeks since I blogged? two and a half… life’s been busy. the end of that conference was fun, but it kinda burnt me out; I still plan to blog about the rest of it eventaually. since then, it’s been a mix of important RL stuff (yes, there do exist things more important than kde), racing to beat the feature freeze, and then racing to fix bugs in those features before the first beta is tagged. oh yeah, and there was a birthday in there somewhere too ;) I’ve found some good restaurants in my area… enjoyed the sunshine.. watched crazy wind-storms outside my window… gotten horribly drunk.. had a great time without any alcohol… and other things. and then there’s the code – feature freeze has a way of showign up at times that are reallly damn inconvenient to me personally, so I did something I really hate doing – committed code I knew was buggy and not very well-written, to meet the deadline. since then I’ve been fixing those bugs and cleaning up ...read more...
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| I finally got around to tarballing libattica 0.1.4 (ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/attica/). This is what is required for KDE 4.5 and only contains some small additions and cleanup (now the providers advertise which parts of the api they support). Now I’m off, because: 
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