what’s in a name?
So KDevelop 3.4 is finally released. yay! Sadly, the real start of KDevelop 4 development (where we actually have the majority of the team working on it) is overshadowed by the prospect of a fork.
We decided around the beginning of KDevelop 4 development, along with the Quanta guys, that we would export an SDK that could be used by people who were wanting to build on top of what KDevelop was already for plugin management and manipulation along with some other things. Thus, what would be known in the beginning as the KDevelop Platform was born. Somewhere down the line, we decided that in the spirit of providing nice names for KDE 4 technologies, we'd get in on the action too and provide a name for our nifty little SDK. Seeing as how we're not very creative people (at least when it comes to naming things), we'd come up with only one name: "KDevPlatform". Of course, that was much too boring. When Alexander Dymo proposed "Koncrete" a week or two ago on the IRC channel, we jumped all over it. Nearly everyone that had been active at some point in time within the last year was on IRC. We all liked it. Nobody disagreed. I made the changes and gave our SDK a nice namespace (seriously, don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger).
Well, there actually ended up being a couple of people who weren't too hot on the new name of the KDevelop SDK that we're going to provide. One of those people couldn't get over the fact that we had renamed a part of KDevelop and will most likely end up forking. We didn't even rename the application or the name of the project. We only changed the set of libraries that will make up the SDK.
We haven't decided what we're going to do about the name. Right now, we're more interested in fixing up the current code that we have in KDevelop 4 so we can get on to more useful things, like actually being able to use the IDE. I imagine once we get closer to that point, we'll revisit the name issue.
Snow
To go with the sleet and ice we got over the weekend, it started snowing last night after I went to bed and was snowing on my way into work this morning. So far, I guess there's about a half inch or so of accumulation on the ground. Just enough to close all the schools and make everybody freak out and go really slow on the highways. It also hasn't made it over the freezing mark since the beginning of the week. Winter has finally arrived. 
Update (1/17/07 23:30): ok, so the snow event was completely underwhelming. It had all melted by the time I left work around 4:30pm today.
spiffy Qt goodness…at work :)
I get to use Qt at work for a project I'm working on. It'll be the second project that uses Qt at work, which is cool. I'd love to see people at work make more use of Qt, so this is a nice start.