Planet KDEPlanet KDE - http://planetKDE.org/Daniel Jones: Roll Video- July 17, 2008 I always loved in grade school when the teacher was too depressed or hung-over to teach the class and just put on a VHS of Raiders of the Lost Ark, or something.As promised, I made a little demonstration for those not daring enough for the svn or nightly (you can admit it, we won't think less of you). (thats: http:www.youtube.comwatchv=CFg0313x-iU, for the embeded video challenged.)Sorry about the pixelation, it's hard to make out how ridiculously hip my music collection is.It's still a...http://kopophex.blogspot.com/2008/07/roll-video.html Celeste Paul (seele): Book: Universal Principles of Design (Lidwell, Holden, Butler)- July 16, 2008 If you are interested in learning design theory, I recommend Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler (2003, Rockport). This book includes 101 design topics in perception, learning, usability, appeal, and application. Topic discussions include theory from psychology, marketing, computer science, and graphic design. Not all examples are computer systems; but the theory is explained well which makes it easy to reapply what you learn when designing a...http://weblog.obso1337.org/2008/book-universal-principles-of-design-lidwell-holden-butler/ George Wright (George): ThinkPad X40 SSD conversion and battery woes- July 16, 2008 My CF card and CF-IDE converter board arrived in the post and so today I started trying to get Linux installed on it. At first I thought I&8217;d try installing from a USB CD drive, but this was a horrendous mess and ended up wasting a good 8 hours of my life. In the end, I dumped the CF in a USB reader and debootstrapped hardy on, then booted it and installed kubuntu-desktop. The installation is still going, but I did have a chance to run a quick hdparm -Tt on the disk; seems it&8217;s doing.http://blog.gwright.org.uk/articles/2008/07/17/thinkpad-x40-ssd-conversion-and-battery-woe... Ariya Hidayat: vim: lightning fast navigation in a large software project- July 16, 2008 Love vim but need to work with a large software project that spans a dozen subdirectories and a bazillion source files There are plenty of solutions, vim scripts or external tools, for this particular problem. Here is one that I've used for years: using the marvelous project script. It comprises one .vim file (the script) and .txt file (the documentation), thus dead easy to install. After that, just launch vim using: vim +Project (replace vim with gvim if you favor the GUI version), the side.http://ariya.blogspot.com/2008/07/vim-lightning-fast-navigation-in-large.html Marcel Wiesweg: digikam 0.9.4 release- July 16, 2008 Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release version 0.9.4. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. Noteworthy features added since the last stable release include auto-gamma and auto-whitebalance support for RAW files in 16bit mode, displaying the number of contained items in the overview for all albums, usability improvements, as usual a lot of bug fixes - see below for a complete list of new features and fixed bugs. read morehttp://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/359 Bertjan Broeksema: SoC update: Akonadi enters KPilot- July 16, 2008 According to the testcode category syncing seems to work, although I did not yet test it extensively in a real sync. The test code does a sync, but between two local databases. It might be that there are still issues when using a database on the palm. But with the absence of any reasonable good working conduit (the only one which works (tm) is the keyring conduit.) I'll leave it as it is for now. The fundamentals are in and it should not need too much polishing. The next step is to get a...http://bertjan.broeksemaatjes.nl/node/30 Johan Thelin: VB Porting Issues- July 16, 2008 Dear Lazy-web,I was hoping that someone out there remembers good old VB4. I have an issue when helping out to port a VB4 system to XP. The thing is that I've got a really old system for managing club members and race results that is used by the local bicycle club. I did not write this system, and I'm helping them for free. Anyhow, it uses VB4 + Crystal Reports 1.x.Installing these tools on Windows XP works on some machines, but not all. For instance, Swedish XP installations seems to crash...http://www.thelins.se/johan/2008/07/vb-porting-issues.html Lorenzo Villani: Honey, weve got user authentication! (GSoC Project update)- July 16, 2008 Kexi Web Forms has seen lot of updates, one of them is the introduction of the BlobService. Taking advantage of the architecture brought by the adoption of pion-network-library I moved binary blob retrieval from ReadService, CreateService and UpdateService to its own handler class so that it can be re-used outside kwebforms too. I also implemented a very basic Cookie-based user authentication system supporting per-user specific permission. For example you can define which users are allowed to...http://blog.binaryhelix.net/2008/07/16/honey-weve-got-user-authentication-gsoc-project-upd... Celeste Paul (seele): KDE Updates ( more like a TODO list)- July 16, 2008 First off, I need to catch up on my day job work so I can get back to KDE. I don&8217;t know what I was thinking taking 4 weeks vacation this summer. I feel like as soon as I catch up, I&8217;m gone again, only to come back and play catchup again. One of my goals for the next week (probably this weekend with the way things are going) is to review all of the KDE User Research Profiles and provide feedback to the projects. Afterwards, it will be back to recruiting! I need to begin moving some.http://weblog.obso1337.org/2008/kde-updates-more-like-a-todo-list/ Flavio Castelli: Can dreams became true- July 16, 2008 During the last years of university I spent some time wondering about my future job. After the degree I received lot of offers (fortunately also good ones), but none of them matched with my &8220;dream job&8221; . There was always something missingdifferent. I was just trying to convince myself that the &8220;perfect job&8221; can exist only ...http://www.flavio.castelli.name/can-dreams-became-true |