making things suck less

So in my last blog about the new MSN plugin that Kopete has, I got some comments about wanting updates on the integration of Kopete and Telepathy, which from the KDE side of things, involves Decibel as well.
The update is that no work has been done to integrate Telepathy in to Kopete. Why? Because we [...]

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If you were having issues filing bugs for windows related things on bugs.kde.org then you will be glad to know that I just fixed those problems.

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Ok, so Dirk surprised us all and upgraded Bugzilla to the new 3.0.5 version. There have been some growing pains associated due to the conversion. There’s more info on dirk’s blog about the reasons behind the quick conversion. All in all though, can’t say that it went too bad.
We’ll be continuing to improve things as the [...]

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Went to see Hancock today. Enjoyable movie. The Dark Knight is up next. Tons of people waiting in line for the next showing (1.5 hours from when we got to the theater). Completely crazy. I want to see it, but I’ll wait until the theaters are a bit more empty.
Completely skipped out on [...]

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off to work at the normal time. traffic was nice and light. poked at a few bugs in the graphical order entry system. fixed a few of them.
home later than normal, trying to make up time for the long lunch I took yesterday. S. was her normal self - fussy - but still very cute. [...]

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If you’ve been trying to get to the reviewboard and haven’t had any luck, you should now be able to get there. I tried to do an upgrade and apparently, the upgrade process failed me, so reviewboard was down nearly a week while I tried to get it back up and running. Hopefully we won’t [...]

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You should all be jumping up and down screaming “I do! I do!” right now.
Yup, Kopete could use some more developers. I changed my mind and decided that we should release it with KDE 4.0 after all and it could use some help getting in shape. I have all sorts of tasks to [...]

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I let work know a few weeks ago about Trolltech’s Developer Days thing that’s coming up the first week of October. Since we’re in the process of migrating our text-based interfaces to Qt, it seems like a good thing to send some people to. Today I put together a summary of stuff for my manager [...]

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All because of this post to the git list that showed me it was possible to use git in the way that I wanted to use it and still be able to interact with svn via git-svn.

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I’ve been spending most of the last three days trying to figure out how to get a cross compiler built so that I can use my mac in my icecream compile cluster here at the house. SUSE provides some nice packages for boxes that run linux, but I had to make one for the mac. [...]

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