Activity-oriented vs Application-oriented workspaces
I don’t normally comment on other people’s software… but… a little while ago, opensuse was wondering whether KDE apps would work with these Gnome Shell requirements. Last time I checked, their...
View ArticleActivities in Action
It’s screencast time again! :) For this one, I focused on how I, personally, use activities. I got the impression that showing real-world usage might make it a bit clearer what I’m trying to do here....
View ArticleContextJournal: an activity-aware app
Well, I haven’t blogged in quite a while, have I? I almost blogged about fosdem, but I was too busy having fun there. ;) I, well, I’m actually on hiatus at the moment. That was (and is) an incredibly...
View ArticleBeyond Activities: Cross-Device Sessions
Update: I’ve scheduled the BoF session for thursday, 14:00 in room 1.404/1. I’ll pop into the systemd bof on wednesday, too. Update 2: It turns out systemd is solving an entirely different problem. :)...
View Articlebouncing email
Update: The sysadmins have fixed the bug, and are keeping an eye on it now, so it’s safe to use that address again. :) I’ve discovered that my kde.org email account has been randomly bouncing some...
View ArticleDesktop Summit 2011
A big thanks to Basyskom for the last-minute sponsorship – I’m really glad I made it to the desktop summit. It was awesome. :) The talks, the bofs, the parties – pretty much everything went well. Even...
View Articleoh yeah… linuxcon…
Riight, so I was at LinuxCon, uhm, two weeks ago. :) Two conferences in a row was a bit much, so I’ve been trying to enjoy my vacation since then (mostly). It was a great conference, though. :) At...
View ArticleWill Hack For Food
Update: I’ve accepted a job now. :) I suppose I ought to blog about it… So I’m graduating in December. Are you hiring for January? I assume if you’re reading my blog, you know that I’ve got plenty of...
View ArticleWeddings and Work
I’m blogging from Utrecht today – for my first week of work. :) So far it’s pretty awesome; I wish I was here for more than just one week. [Edit: in case it's not clear, I'm going back home at the end...
View Articlethe easy way to import from git into svn
At Eljakim (my new employer), work repositories are all svn (lowest common denominator), but several of us access them via git-svn. I’ve created a couple of new ones recently, but thanks to timezones,...
View ArticleQHeaderView, ResizeToContents and stretchLastSection
I’m using a lot of QTreeViews at work. So many damn QTreeViews. :P One of the problems I ran into was that QHeaderView::ResizeToContents and QHeaderView::Stretch are mutually exclusive. I had my own...
View ArticleQt Job available
A new year, and a new job for me again! :) I’m switching to something in my own timezone, so someone needs to take over my current job in january. If you’re a qt developer who’s not too far from...
View ArticleFrom Desktop to Web, part 1: Callbacks for dummies
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for ages, but I seem to have writers’ block. Time to break through it! Going from desktop kde/qt programming to mobile and web development has been quite a change....
View ArticleHow to Not be a Rockstar
Lately I’ve been keeping up with twitter, and retweeting the best of what I see. And there’s a trend in that recently: articles encouraging humility. I like this, and I feel like saying a few words...
View ArticleAccessibility surprises
So CascadiaJS was last week, and it was awesome. I did have one issue at the start, though, which surprised me enough to blog about. First off, the issue was resolved quite well. I’m not writing this...
View ArticleBlip.tv screencasts moved
Blip.tv has decided to narrow its focus, and isn’t interested in hosting my screencasts any more. I’ve moved the two 4.6 screencasts to youtube: Activities in KDE Plasma Desktop 4.6 and Activities in...
View ArticleAccessibility surprises
So CascadiaJS was last week, and it was awesome. I did have one issue at the start, though, which surprised me enough to blog about. First off, the issue was resolved quite well. I’m not writing this...
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