Yeah, it was only two weeks ago but soon I’ll be visiting Berlin again. This time is however only to have some fun in LinuxTag 2007, which, for the first time takes place in Berlin’s Messe. KDE will be there and there are lots of interesting talks.

Typically, “tip of the day” feature is not really loved. Often, the dialog for showing the tip blocks the main view of the application. Worse, this dialog is even modal, you have to click it to make it disappear.

Continuing my last year’s GSOC, finally I managed to implement support for importing embedded raster images in libwpg. As with other graphics formats such as SVG, PDF, and ODG, WPG allows pixmaps or images to be combined with the vector graphics. It was a bit difficult because raster images are typi...

Alternating row colors is a very common user interface pattern, the most used example is the playlist in Apple iTunes. With different color every other row, the table or a long list looks more pleasant and easier to use.

QEMU version 0.9 is already out for some time, but AFAIK no official package is available for openSUSE Linux 10.2 yet. Here are some steps I did to have QEMU 0.9 with accelerator (kqemu) on SUSE 10.2. The motivation is simple: I’d like to have a faster system for filter development.

Physics Teacher: “Isaac Newton was sitting under a tree when an apple fell on his head and he discovered gravity. Isn’t that wonderful?”

Time flies. KOffice sprint weekend in Berlin was just over. I couldn’t believe I was on my bed again this morning. It was lots of fun, plenty of food, interesting talks, endless excitement, and most importantly, I got to see many great fellow KOffice hackers in real-life.

So it’ll be my n-th trip to Berlin. We’re going to have KOffice ODF Weekend, supported by KDE e.V and KDAB. 17 16 heads, lots of hacking, and rainy weather look like a great combination.

Finally, SpeedCrunch version 0.7 has been released. Compared to the last beta, this final release has some fixes for potential crash (due to Q3TextEdit), which is also reported in Launchpad.

Thanks to QDockWidget::toggleViewAction, if you want to create an action (and placed in in the menu, for example) to switch a dock widget on and off, it is very simple indeed. The text of the action will be the title of the dock. If you have more than dock widgets, this can be combined together in a...

Life is a game, and if you aren't in it to win, what the heck are you still doing here? — Linus Torvalds

Warning: don’t try this in real world’s application!

Thanks to Nokia (and whoever has recommended me), I finally got the once-in-a-lifetime developer-discounted N800. After a little problem with payment and delivery, which fortunately were solved, I can enjoy this cute little gadget.

With the risk of being blacklisted by some PlanetKDE readers, here is yet another food post on pecel lele or fried catfish with raw vegetables.

They are more dangerous than Seb’s 🙂

Soon Google technologies would manage you life (almost) completely.

This was taken in Bremen. Click on the picture to go to Flickr, if you want to get the larger version.

That’s a fantastic dessert. Inspiration is from Google, I mean of course literally, the first page of google.com today 🙂

Consider the following simple operation, where k is integer and p is prime:

I wake up, it’s a bad dream No one on my side I was fighting But I just feel too tired To be fighting Guess I’m not the fighting kind

In order to keep polluting the Planets (the aggregators, not the heavenly bodies), here is yet another pasta dish: Spaghetti with Mussels. The tomate sauce, unfortunately not really visible in the picture, goes along very well with the mussels, especially – if you are not in hurry – when cooked slow...

Here is another of my crime to Italian-style dish. Taste fresh and delicious (at least for me), suitable for vegetarians, and perfect for candle-light dinner.

Kyrill storm, with a wind gust record speed of 191 km/h and its catasthrophic effects, seems to be over. But now everyone is preparing for the successor: Lancelot.

One of my failure until 2006 is this one:

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome KFormula, the third KOffice application (after KSpread and KPlato) that is not krazy anymore!

Warsaw Almond Cookies: taste fantastic and need only eggs, sugar, almond and two hours of baking (see the recipe). Use couverture chocolate to decorate. Of course, you still live under the rock if you can’t find our beloved three letters in the picture.

After KSpread, KPlato – KOffice’s project management tool – becomes the second non-krazy KOffice application:

When Bob found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed a woman to enjoy it with. So one evening he went to a singles bar where he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.