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I simply cannot stop playing around with TV Shows and Nepomuk. We already had posters for the series but not for the seasons. Well, we do now: Fun, isnt’ it? But sadly it required an improved libtvd…

As requested I prepared a release of the TV Show managing thingi I implemented. You can download it from download.kde.org mirrors at unstable/nepomuk/nepomuktvnamer-0.2.0.tar.bz2. The nepomuktvnamer 0…

Since implementing the TV Show KIO slave was that easy I decided I could do the same for music – just to show how simple it can be. There a a few more lines but that is only because I … Continue r…

In the past months I have been working on many things for Mageia, like mentoring some novice packagers, fixing bugs, preparing updates for Mageia 1, and the usual packaging of new applications and upd…

I fixed the thumbnailing issue. It even selects an image which has the best aspect ratio to begin with – not more squeezed banners: But as feared it requires a patch to kdelibs which I hope to get i…

After fetching all the details about TV Shows from thetvdb.com I went back to my favorite way of browsing things: KIO slaves. So without further ado let me introduce the tvshow:/ KIO slave: So the roo…

I have been trying lately to get a better understanding of the Swift code base, and I found the best way to know it was to read it from top to bottom and document it along the way. Here is … Continu…

Every once in a while I add another piece of query optimization code to the Nepomuk Query API. This time it was a direct result of my earlier TV Show handling. I simply thought that a query like “do…

After writing about my TV Show Namer I want to get out some more ideas and examples before I will be retiring as a full-time KDE developer in a few weeks. The original idea for what I am about to … …

Swift integrity tools. There is quite a bit of tools shipped with Swift to ensure you have the right object on your cluster. At first there is the basic : swift-object-info It will take a swift object…

This is this time of the year again, FOSDEM will take place in Brussels next week-end. This is one of my favourite free software event, lots of interesting talks, lots of interesting people, and lots …

I’ll attend Fosdem again this year next week-end in Brussels. I’ll deliver a talk on Project-Builder.org as a support for a Continuous Packaging cross Operating Systems development. There are some…

Nous sommes au regret de vous informer qu’un actionnaire minoritaire a refusé l’offre de l’entité extérieure et nous ne pouvons, de ce fait, prendre cette option pour notre futur.…

Nous sommes au regret de vous informer qu’un actionnaire minoritaire a refusé l’offre de l’entité extérieure et nous ne pouvons, de ce fait, prendre cette option pour notre futur. Nous travai…

Unfortunately, the bid proposed by the external entity has been refused by a minority shareholder and we cannot go for this solution. Fortunately, the financial situation – far better than expected …

So, after spending some time setting up my PC yesterday, I wanted to work with it and my Yamaha DX7. When I got it, default sounds were not there, and there were lots of duplicate sounds. What you wou…

After my rather boring blog about change notifications I will now to write about something that I wanted every since I started developing Nepomuk. But only now has Nepomuk reached a point where it pro…

Ignoring the fact that I did not blog in nearly two months I will simply get some developer information out there. Getting notified about changes in the Nepomuk database has always been a problem. All…

When I released the version 3.0.0, some people started to report issues at restore time, that I didn’t saw during my tests. These problems were mentioned as related to LVM restoration, or partition …

The decision that should have been taken today has been postponed to Friday, January 27th. The deadline for the decision on the proposal has been extended by the proposing entity upon request of some …