I had blogged about what would happen to Nokia, Qt and KDE almost an year back when they started signalling to go behind Windows mobile.I think many of my predictions are coming true, or have a chance of becoming true as there is a fuzz on forking Qt and Nokia loosing interest in Qt.I just read an article on dot.kde ...
If you have'nt read part-1 of the story, please read it so that you will get the full picture.I appreciate the good design in IBM three tiered architecture, but I believed there could be better object oriented ways. The three tiered architecture gave me some good insights on how to maintain reusability, maintainability and the importance of a good design. ...
I could not stop laughing after looking at things that happened after Lennart Poettering's interview on LinuxFr.com. Just reading the article would give anyone a clear idea that this is the start of another flamewar. Just forget about the software, and focus on the sarcasm and the joke in the scenario I describe below, you will be able to see ...
I always wanted a KDE mail client for my gmail accounts for the below two reasons.1. Support for multiple accounts2. Better search support, at least in the local foldersI tried Kmail, first time with POP3, and the experience was confusing. Later on, I came to know that when POP3 clients don't modify the status of the mail in the server. ...
The Debian KDE team is working fully focused on moving kde 4.6.3 from unstable (sid) repository to the testing (wheezy) repository. They have mentioned that they will not be working on bringing KDE 4.6.4 to unstable. Their priority is to finish off any remaining work on KDE 4.6.3 and move it to testing. Testing repository still is in KDE 4.4 ...
For all those who are waiting for KDE 4.6.3 in unstable (sid), it will be available within this week. Since this is an upgrade 4.4 to 4.6, where 4.5 was completely skipped, and KDE is packaged in a different way now than the previous releases, expect some rough times when upgrading. Said that, things should not be too tough since ...
I wanted to upgrade my PC to KDE 4.6.2. It had 4.5.x and sid. qt-kde.debian.net was enabled, and I knew upgrading is not going to be a tough time since so many people have reported that to be smoother than expected.So, feeling pretty confident, and not being upgraded for 3 months, I just issued the two magical commands.apt-get update; apt-get ...
As being waiting 4.6 to arrive in the official debian repositories, I became pretty curious and tried it in Ubuntu (Installed Ubuntu first, then installed kubuntu-desktop and kde-full).As I have seen many Ubuntu KDE users' comments in the forums, I thought of giving it a try, even though my presumption is Kubuntu messes up KDE. As I am using debian ...
Installing and configuring phpunit is a trivial task in Linux environment. If you are a debian/Ubuntu user, just 'sudo apt-get install phpunit' will install it. If the installation reports any php extension as missing try 'sudo apt-get install php5-theExtensionThatWasMissing'. It is as simple as that.But getting it configured it in XAMPP in Windows environment involves some additional complexities. The reasons ...
The Debina KDE community was anticipating 4.6.2 in one of the official repositories in April. Though the release was expected in the official repositories, it made its way to the semi-official qt-kde.debian.net. I just had a check and found that 4.6.2 is in the official Experimental repository today. kdebindings has not been packaged yet. This means it might take some ...
KDE 4.6.2 SC is not available to the public, but has been made available to the packagers and the Debian team is actively packaging it. According to package maintainers, they are trying hard to bring KDE 4.6.2 to the official repositories within a week or two. The packages will be launched to either experimental or sid or both, but testing ...
After a long awaiting, KDE 4.6.1 has become available to the Debian users via the semi-official qt-debian repository. The release is said to be of experimental quality, and not guaranteed to be compatible with the official 4.6.x releases which are planned for sid and testing.KDE bindings are not packaged yet, and expected to take some more time due to their ...
As Kofi Annan put it, “'Syria is not Libya, it will not implode, it will explode beyond its borders."Syria's current crisis is not just about repressive ruling elite and revolutionaries. Although the conflicts have multiple dimensions, it verily has religious and sectarian elements which send strong messages to its neighbouring countries. From its independence Syria was desperately in need of ...
When I plug my headphone into my Dell vostro 1014 (laptop) the laptop speaker was not getting muted. My laptop had Debian Wheezy installed.The following Ubuntu forum threads shed some light on this and gave hope that it is possible to get things working.1. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1467218.html2. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1457859.htmlMy guess was the problem was due to some driver issues as I was using ...
There is a lot of pressure being built up on why packaging KDE is getting so delayed. According to official sources it should have become available in the beginning of march, but now being the beginning of April, no signs yet.There is a good news as well as some bad news. Good news is that the semi-official repository qt-kde will ...
There are a lot of speculations written about Windows 7 Mobile as the choice of platform for Nokia to continue with. There are two areas which I would like to comment on.1. Why Nokia had to chose Windows Mobile?2. What will happen to Qt afterwards?1. Why Nokia had to chose Windows Mobile?Reason #1: Never the second mentalityNokia wants to be ...
To much of the joy of all Debian fans, Debian Squeeze (the stable release) is now released after 24 months of development. Two notable first timers are,The default is a completely free kernel. kFreeBSD kernel is shipped with Debian userland applications in a separate line. Wheezy, the next to be released, has hit the testing branch which hopefully will become ...
I think I owe a blog post here because I see a lot of users visit my KDE 4.6 being delayed post. Whenever I login to debian-kde IRC channel, the topic says "No ETA for 4.7." I don't have any other information on the topic. I did look at regular places where I check for info, but could not find ...
As I am leading a small QA team on an Open Source company, I have the task of defining the QA Process. The formal QA cycles, and process won't work here.We have two major teams, one is working on the open source product, and the other one working on customizations of the open source product. The Open Source team is ...
I am going to explain a tool that I created which stands in between Record and Play Selenese and robust automation code.You better read my previous post to see why I came up with such a solution.The purpose of the solution isthe tool should be usable by non-technical people as well a single modification of the web application should break only ...