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 …
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 …
Last Friday, before the KDE 4.0 release event, Tim Pritlove, host of the Chaos Radio Express Podcast (Subscribe) asked me if we could do an episode on KDE 4.0, as he was staying in Bonn. The result is a one …
Cocktail “KDE 4.0 Blue Lagoon” Ingredients: 2cl Vodka 1-2cl Blue Curacao 2cl Cream 10cl Pinapple Juice 4cl Cream of Coconut 1-2 Ice Cubes Howto: Shake well. Decorate glass with a an orance slice. Before slicing the orange, cut and peel …
So it’s been done: KDE 4.0.0 has just been released. This is not only the end of a long development effort, involving a lot of new ideas and even more sweat and tears in getting a .0 release out. It …
Due to some rather strange pains in my back (probably muscle-related, I hope the doc will find out tomorrow), I am somewhat chained to my bed. With my action radius being limited significantly, I am doing what seems popular: I …
I hate the days close to exams. I am pretty annoyed with learning by then, and the times I decide to call “creative breaks” get longer and longer. Yesterday, I was looking for something that might be fun, touching an …
When the news about Qtopia on the OpenMoko made its round in the news, I was eager to find out how it would be, especially because the only platform I had seen it on was the Greenphone. Thankfully my friend …
I am writing these lines at Berlin Ostbahnhof, waiting for my train to arrive. It was a nice 11 weeks and working with the Trolltech guys in the Berlin Office was awesome. The same applies for the Oslo crowd of …
Do you know the feeling? For some reason, you need to detach from something you were involved in, and suddenly, after a while of not being deeply involved with it, you realize its just workling perfectly — at an amazing …