made it home safely and with all pieces of luggage and what not with me. i didn't even have my luggage in the door yet when a couple of friends walked passed with their dogs and then t. pulled up in her car to say hi (to the cats, mostly, i think =). once the dog walkers were gone, t. and i went for a spot of tea around the corner (it was her birthday!) and i struggled to stay up until a reasonable hour before collapsing into bed sometime after 23:00. this ensured i didn't wake up before 08:00 today and now i'm back on the local sleep schedule. the first night is always hard.
one annoyance upon return was that my desktop system was dead: it wouldn't even boot. it turned out to be a heat sink problem. i've whipped up a temporary fix, so it's back up and running for the time being. i need a more permanent solution, but this will do for now.
the house is nice and clean still (yay for the cats not destroying it!) but i have laundry to do and had a ton of email to get through. i'm going to go for a quick walk around the block to get some fresh air and then eat something before p. comes over with his mom.
both the desktop and laptop are now busily compiling the latest kde and hopefully i'll get a bit of hacking time today though i'm not counting on it. may not get any coding work in until tomorrow. such is life.
looks like i'll be keynoting at the trolltech dev days in california in early october, which should be cool. we'll also have a kde dev lab area there to interact with attendees in an informal environment. neat!
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
okular, nepomuk and so much more
in amongst and after this weekend's crazyness in svn, there have been a few other really nice happenings.
one is trolltech donating a significant amount of code to the free software stack for text rendering.
another was okular finally moved back into kdegraphics. i've taken on maintainership of the kde4 kdegraphics module for release purposes, and i have my work cut out for me there as there are a rather large number of decisions and actions that need to be made and taken. the people working on things in kdegraphics have been awesome so far and really helpful; we all seem to be thinking in the same general directions which is really nice and most everyone is upbeat and positive. i can't say how much that helps me get through the day when others have a positive attitude.
i spent a good part of the day today reviewing nepomuk which is in kdereview in hopes of still getting it into the kde 4.0 release. i think this is important as otherwise it will be next to impossible to do the integration into the apps for 4.1.
the krita people continue to amaze me with things like auto-alignment of pictures into panoramas.
the usability people are really picking up steam with the HIG, and i saw what will be the first public usability web testing for oxygen (they've done focus group stuff up until now). thomas zander even found a way to largely automate the dialog layouts they want to do, though there are still one or two little fudgelettes here or there to do.
techbase continues to grow: not only were there two new tutorials today, including one on nepomuk's kmetadata, but i looked and over the last two months we've averaged 4000 pages served a day. not exactly "high volume" yet, but that's 4x what it was at the start of february and we've only started getting the word out about techbase.
we also have set up a page on techbase for widgets and other classes that aren't in kdelibs but might be useful to find their way into libs. this is an attempt to start tracking such candidates in a more active manner.
one is trolltech donating a significant amount of code to the free software stack for text rendering.
another was okular finally moved back into kdegraphics. i've taken on maintainership of the kde4 kdegraphics module for release purposes, and i have my work cut out for me there as there are a rather large number of decisions and actions that need to be made and taken. the people working on things in kdegraphics have been awesome so far and really helpful; we all seem to be thinking in the same general directions which is really nice and most everyone is upbeat and positive. i can't say how much that helps me get through the day when others have a positive attitude.
i spent a good part of the day today reviewing nepomuk which is in kdereview in hopes of still getting it into the kde 4.0 release. i think this is important as otherwise it will be next to impossible to do the integration into the apps for 4.1.
the krita people continue to amaze me with things like auto-alignment of pictures into panoramas.
the usability people are really picking up steam with the HIG, and i saw what will be the first public usability web testing for oxygen (they've done focus group stuff up until now). thomas zander even found a way to largely automate the dialog layouts they want to do, though there are still one or two little fudgelettes here or there to do.
techbase continues to grow: not only were there two new tutorials today, including one on nepomuk's kmetadata, but i looked and over the last two months we've averaged 4000 pages served a day. not exactly "high volume" yet, but that's 4x what it was at the start of february and we've only started getting the word out about techbase.
we also have set up a page on techbase for widgets and other classes that aren't in kdelibs but might be useful to find their way into libs. this is an attempt to start tracking such candidates in a more active manner.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
hello mr. roboto, er, roberto
reading my email this morning i saw a ton of commits from roberto raggi. he was one of the mastminds behind kdevelop back in the day and ended up working at trolltech doing a lot of very solid work on qt.
well, he's back in kde land a bit more now. starting this month trolltech is sponsoring him to work a couple days a week on kde; it's really nice to be associated with a company that gives back so meaningfully and intelligently. it's even nicer to see roberto around again. he's an amazing developer, a really good guy in person and is already having an impact on the quality of kdelibs =)
will be interesting to see where he decides to focus his guns when the libs dust settles a bit more...
well, he's back in kde land a bit more now. starting this month trolltech is sponsoring him to work a couple days a week on kde; it's really nice to be associated with a company that gives back so meaningfully and intelligently. it's even nicer to see roberto around again. he's an amazing developer, a really good guy in person and is already having an impact on the quality of kdelibs =)
will be interesting to see where he decides to focus his guns when the libs dust settles a bit more...
