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Month: April 2008

KDE TechBase in Need of Admins

By danimo Posted on 28 April, 2008 Posted in English, KDE

KDE TechBase is the top resource for KDE development specific content. It is an effort originally started by Dominik and me. Since then, we (well, mostly it’s him, while I am in charge of causing all the annoying URL changesupgrades …

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Dear Google Earth Team…

By danimo Posted on 28 April, 2008 Posted in English, Qt

It is with great pleasure that I realized your porting efforts to Qt 4 in your 4.3 release of Google Earth. Your software so far lacked visual integration on Linux, but now with “googleearth -style plastique” (KDE) or “googleearth -style …

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Shameless Plug: Open Source School Founded

By danimo Posted on 25 April, 2008 Posted in English, Qt

We now break away from this blog for a commercial break: In an effort to deliver in-depth practical knowledge in addition to its books, Open Source Press, the publisher of my Qt 4 book is now offering practical trainings. The …

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Näkemiin! Minulla oli mukavaa!

By danimo Posted on 25 April, 2008 Posted in English, Let the party never end, Unterwegs

Just in case the title strikes you as odd: It’s finnish and it basically means “Goodbye! I had a great time!” (well, at leastt according to my dictionary). Right now we are sitting in the lobby of the StayAt Hotel …

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Flatforty Survey

By danimo Posted on 25 April, 2008 Posted in English, KDE

Dear Dot-Lovers, reports about the death of the flatforty feature on the dot are greatly exaggerated . In fact it seems to be working again, I have no idea why it was gone. Probably some maintenance lead to problems. Anyway, …

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Some Dot Stats

By danimo Posted on 16 April, 2008 Posted in English, KDE, Trivia

After successfully exporting all stories and comments from the dot from its launch until the day before yesterday to xml (to have a basis for test-imports on other machines), I can give you a few interesting statistics: Since the dot …

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Fixing the net

By danimo Posted on 14 April, 2008 Posted in English, FH, Priceless, Unterwegs

Greetings from Espoo, Finland, close to Helsinki (Hello Andreas!). We arrived yesterday evening and so far all things are nice. EVTEK welcomed us warmly, and we had a grat first day, including a sightseeing tour to downtown Helsinki. I also …

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Better RSS on the Dot, Travel

By danimo Posted on 12 April, 2008 Posted in English, FH, KDE, Unterwegs

So my last rant basically made me the dot maintainer. Oh well. Now, as the first official act I added a description tag to the RSS feed of the dot. That means that everyone can now read stories with his …

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Comments Considered Harmful or "The Halo Effect"

By danimo Posted on 5 April, 2008 Posted in English, KDE

It’s terrible: Every idiot has an opinion on everything. I think people got it all wrong on the whole democracy thing: In democracies, one may have an opinion, but one doesn’t have to. If you have no idea what you …

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