Prerequisites:

• Php
• XDebug extension
• xdebug configured to accept remote connections
  
  
  • xdebug.remote_enable = 1
  • xdebug.remote_host = localhost (yourhost if on remote server)
• KDevplatform, KDevelop
• The following KDevelop Plugins:
  
  • executescript
  • executebrowser
  • xdebug
  (download here)
  

Debugging a CLI Script

1. Create Launch Configuration

• Run » Configure Launches...
• add Launch Configuration (+)
• choose Type "Script Application"
• enter interpreter "php"
• enter script path
• activate the new Launch Configuration in Run » Current Launch Config

2. Start Debugger

• Set a breakpoint (Run » Toggle Breakpoint, or rightclick on icon border in editor
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I’m pleased to announce (as first as it seems) that KDevelop4 released its 8th Beta. This is mostly a bugfix release as we are slowly (but steadily) moving towards a final release. There’s going to be another Beta soon with (hopefully) some more features as the KDevelop/Kate Sprint just started.

Additionally to kdevelop+kdevplatform you’ll find Beta’s of various php-related plugins on the KDE mirros. These plugins enable language support (code-completion and navigation), php-documentation view and debugging of php code (both standalone and inside a browser via xdebug). These are provided by Milian Wolf and Niko Sams, so join #kdevelop and give them a hug for providing such outstanding php support

For those eager to try out (and when the distro hasn’t built packages yet), you can find the files on the KDE mirrors

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Current Statistics

It’s a while since I wrote about UserBase, but there’s been plenty of activity.  Let’s look at some statistics, first.  We now have 1,212 content pages and 1,236 uploaded images.  There have been 10,889 page edits since UserBase began – and that will already be out of date by the time you read this.  We have 1,459 registered users, of which 20 have contributed this week.  A year ago that statistic was a mere handful.  The total number of views is now 2,764,290!  Kontact is the most-viewed page – well ahead of the Welcome page – and Akonadi has passed GPU-Performance!  A sign of the times, perhaps.

Top 10 contributors this week

Once again the top three places in the Contributions table go to translators.  New contributors since last I wrote are Jzmer, writing about Kimpanel, Afiestas who has undertaken to get the Kbluetooth page sorted out, Aseigo who is writing about Plasmate and Algotruneman – a ...read more...

"Welcome to part four of our look at the KDE 4.3 System Settings panel. In this section we'll tackle the Advanced User Settings under the Advanced tab.

We all knowing, that on 14. February this Year we celebrating the Valentine’s Day. This is an goog Day to share you Love for Free Software with your Friends, This Campain is started by Free Software Foundation Europe. All Details of this Campain you can see under: http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/valentine-2010/ Have alot of Fun

In the now three years since Nokia purchased Qt I have been impressed to the extent that Nokia is taking advantage of their new Qt technology. It's basically turning into their development development SDK for all their smart phones. This is more or less what the press releases said at the time. But I'm sure eBay sent out a bunch of nice press releases about how helpful their 3 billion dollar Skype purchase was going to be for them... and look what that got them. However in the case of Qt those press releases (as I remember them) turned out to more or less be spot on.

As anyone with a N810 can tell you, you can't just stick a desktop UI on to a small device. It needs to be thumb-friendly.

One solution is QML. It's a declarative language, which opens up some interesting possibilities. However it currently isn't a toolkit, but only has primitive shapes. It's not really clear what the longterm plans for QML are. With its tight integration with QtScript its already pretty ideal for making simple ...read more...

The semester is nearly finished; Tuesday is the last exam (on quantum field theory). So finally I have some time for hacking. In the last few months, aside from some personal stuff, hacking almost exclusively meant Palapeli for me. I’m currently working on the design of the next version of Palapeli (with GHNS and puzzle piles, if everything works out), but that’s not what I’m hacking on right now.

In Kolf 2, I’ve decided some time ago to abandon the third spatial dimension and completely return to the classic Kolf feeling. This big change means exchanging the Open Dynamics Engine by a 2D physics engine. There seems to be only one good 2D physics engine around, Box2D. Incidentally, Box2D switched to CMake just two weeks ago.

After only some hours, I had some first prototypes of how I could implement the current Kolf-NG on top of Box2D. In order to get a clean design, I chose not to rewrite Kolf-NG from ODE to Box2D, but to create a complete new Kolf, with big parts of code ...read more...

Really?… A KDE event in the UK? Aye. Scotland, no less.

• Date: 20/02/10
• Time: 16:00 - 22:00
• Place: Electron Club, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD
• Organizer: Kenny Duffus

If you are based in the UK want to join in the fun, drop an email to Kenny. If you are interested in KDE, a user ir a developer and want to see the advances that have been made in KDE 4.4, please come along.

"In years past, an ISSCC presentation on a new processor would consist of detailed discussion of the chip's microarchitecture , along with at least one shot of a floorplan that marked out the location of major functional blocks .

Just a reminder that the KDE 4.4 release party is tomorrow, February 12 2010 at Fudruckers in Columbia Maryland. Jonathan Riddell will also be giving his CALUG/MD Loco talk that was canceled on Wednesday due to snow. More information…

Tonight I could not attend band rehearsal so I used the time to play with the new QML language. There is a nice tutorial online and a good screencast.

QML allows one to write flashy applications with little code. My first QML program is a metronome. The N900 has a metronome program but it is rather boring. It does not look and feel like a real metronome. So I set out to write one in QML and managed to do so in 56 lines of QML. The interaction is simple: tap it to toggle between on and off and slide up and down to move the cross-bar on the metronome which will adjust the tempo in the range 40 to 208 beats per minute.

Without further ado here is the code. You can run it in qmlviewer. Two things are lacking at the moment: a nice SVG image of a metronome and of course the ticking sound. I am keen to find out how to make the metronome produce sound to make it useful.

So 4.4 is out, and I’ve done my first plasma screencast! :)
It’s just a little guide to the ways you can navigate activities in 4.4 without using the ZUI.

hrm. apparently embedded (non-youtube) video is a paid feature on wordpress…
but notmart has kindly uploaded it here.
there’s a link to the original ogg there, too. :)

"At the Black Hat DC Conference 2010 security researcher Christopher Tarnovsky of FlyLogic Engineering has demonstrated a way to defeat the Trusted Platform Module chips widely used to secure data in computers , identity cards, gaming systems like the Xbox 360, cable set-top boxes, and other electronics.

The Linux Mint team announced the final release of Linux Mint 8 "Helena" KDE Community Edition.

Have you ever wondered how a window system actually works ? I have. When I was preparing my Widgets In-Depth talk for Qt Developer Days last year, I decided I should implement a simple little window system as bonus material.
This blog post will be a rough description of the window system I built using Qt, and a port of Qt to the new system.

Windows And Systems

As you probably know, the window system is the process that manages the windows on your screen.
A window, also known as a window surface, can be described as an area of memory that will be drawn to the screen. Window surfaces are typically arranged in a scene-graph to keep track of them. Finally, window systems typically run as a server process. When other processes that want to show something on screen, they have to talk to it through some form of inter-process communication.

The toy window system up and running.

Window Surface

We need something that represents the memory area used to paint the window contents. ...read more...

Rodney Gedda 09 April, 2009 11:06 KOffice 2 will include Krita, an image manipulation tool like PhotoShop or the Gimp The open source KOffice project has announced the availability of the first release candidate of the next generation, version 2.0, which may be the last release before the final 2.0. According to its developers, the goal of the RC1 ...

As you maybe know I have a new job since last December and I’m working on
Samba4 now. Samba4 is a monster so I’ve asked for some simple tasks to get
started. The task was to migrate some code to a new Samba library called
tsocket. The problem was I didn’t know what to do and how. Some functions
of the API were documented but not all. So I had to guess from the names
what the function is doing and read the code to understand it. Then I’ve
started to work with the interface and I had to look again the the code to
find out possible return values. In the end I spent a lot of time jumping
through the source code to find out the return values for the functions.

If the API would be completely documented I could get my work done a lot of
faster so I simply started to document it cause I had to understand it anyway.
I’ve decided to write the documentation ...read more...

• The Ubuntu Artwork wallpaper flickr group
• Submit a theme for the Community Themes package in Lucid
• Help us with identifying, testing and fixing Papercuts 

Hand-held devices could soon have pressure-sensitive touch-screens and keys , thanks to a UK firm's material that exploits a quantum physics trick.

Go check it out

One more thing...

In 0.4 release I asked to the distributions to update they packages, some of them did and some of then not, but the best of all is that I got a lot of feedback from the packagers, and here comes the payment for that feedback

With the last release I added a crash when receiving files, I gare say it was not my fault, the KBluetooth code is a mess and I can’t fix it without rewrite it from scratch (thing that I’ll explain hopefully in 2 days).

Small roadmap for 0.4 version:

• Fix file transfer jobs (speed calculation and notifications)
• Check (and re-check again) input

I’ll try to get the above points covered in a couple of days too.

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Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 8 ''KDE'' edition: ''The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 'Helena' KDE Community edition.

KDE SC 4.4 is just out of the door (by the way, what an achievement, woha :D) and as our tradition we are already cramming features on trunk, that will be KDE SC 4.5.

In plasma land you will probably see more things in the tone of polishment and refinement of stuff already there rather than completely new stuff. But since the fourth Tokamak is approaching, expect something really really tasty coming out of it :D

But now there's a little appetizer: in 4.4 in the Search and Launch interface of the netbook shell is possible to add favourites and remove them by clicking on the little "-" icon

While that's good and will still be available, now is possible to add favourites where you want with drag and drop from the results view and move them by just dragging around.

The drag operation will start with a pretty low sensibility, making possible to still scrolling the view by dragging.

For instance since the results view scrolls vertically, if you drag vertically the view will just move, but if you ...read more...

Although KDE SC 4.4.0 isn’t officially released yet (or there’s no announcement on the dot yet), I’ve bumped the specfiles in the KDE4-OpenSolaris repository to 4.4.0 and kicked off a rebuild. That means that we should have new packages at about the same time that the major GNU/Linux distributions have them. The release candidate was pretty stable on OpenSolaris as long as you didn’t (re)build any parts of it while logged in, but we’ll probably be hearing enough bug reports in the next few months for OSOL. You can report problems to KDE’s bugzilla with the OS set to Solaris, or use the OpenSolaris bug tracker and choose one of the KDE components there.

Of course, the whole future of OSOL is a little .. fuzzy. The Oracle / Sun takeover has caused a fair amount of shake-up in many of Sun’s projects, but OSOL has not, as far as I know, been either committed-to or deprecated. We’ll see.

In the wake (er, .. the bow shock wave, since I’m getting ahead of myself) ...read more...