http://mattr.info:8080/blog mattr's blog Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:27:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First up, Michael Cole came in with some fixes earlier in the week on the Yahoo! protocol side for being able to better use webcams. Now Frank Schaefer has come through with the some fixes on the low level side of the webcam stuff. Frank's patches fix a number of ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2010/01/15/more-kopete-webcam-love-and-yahoo-patches/ So i just committed a rather nice patch from new contributor Michael Cole that fixes a few things in Yahoo with regard to webcams and avatars. You can now accept webcams from Yahoo users and send your webcam to other users. Avatars that are now also downloaded and stored properly. Michael mentions ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2010/01/11/yahoo-webcam-fixes-for-kopete/ So, awhile back, I asked about an ORM framework for Qt. I didn't find much else in that category, and nobody else had any thing that was feasible either. I appreciated the suggestions about QDataStream, the XML stuff the Kadu folks are doing, etc, but I really wanted a database ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/12/29/first-version-of-qtpersistence-released/ If you've been reading the kde-core-devel mailing list, there's been some talk recently about bugzilla, how much it sucks, whether we should switch, and alternative tools to switch to. However, only one person told me about something that could be improved. So, in order to get feedback on whether or ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/11/18/kde-bugzilla-ui-changes-feedback-wanted/ ok, so before i spend time going and creating something totally awesome to do object persistence with Qt, I have a question. Have people already done something like this? What I Know: I know about Kandau already. I looked at it, and it's Qt/KDE 3 only, and I don't really want to spend ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/11/03/i-can-haz-object-persistence-with-qt/ Just made the first release of a small project of mine that I wrote to handle my various projects and development environments. It's called devenv and the homepage is at Gitorious. 1.0 is the "it works good enough for me so here it is" release. It's designed only for zsh, ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/10/14/devenv-1-0-released/ I got patch friday done this week. I committed some header cleanups and a user-submitted patch to fix unsetting your Jabber mood. The jabber mood fix will be in KDE 4.3.3. The last two patch fridays before this one have been a wash. The first was because I was traveling ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/10/11/patch-friday-10092009/ boot camp this morning. worked a lot of the little muscles. got a recent kde bugzilla snapshot imported into the BZ 3.4 sandbox. Will need to end up redoing it in order to make sure that I can do the data conversion properly. Also need to do the one for the ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/09/21/monday-09212009/ up before 7. breakfast, playing, shower, then off to best buy. C. got a new case for her Pre and I picked up a copy of Snow Leopard with a $25 gift card I won at work. Lunch, then slugging away at the rest of the edging that didn't get done ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/09/21/sunday-09202009/ slept in a bit. off to Lowe's in the morning to get supplies for the front edging that we're redoing. took one of the cars to get inspected during S.'s naptime. Managed to get the last remaining bits of a feature done for Kopete. Need to play with it about a ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/09/20/saturday-09192009/ boot camp workout class this morning. more heavy weights today, although in a bit different style. ended up doing step ups with 65 lbs of weight in each hand. could barely lift the weights up enough to make the step. :) Got Fedora 11 reinstalled on the laptop while at work. ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/09/19/patch-friday-09182009/ up and out the door at the normal time. work was largely uneventful and only semi-productive due to my lack of focus. got home and poked again at getting rawhide to work on the laptop. decided in the end to say "screw it" and started a backup before going to bed. http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/09/18/thursday-09172009/ Got a good run in this morning since there was no boot camp. Reviewed a nice patch adding contact images to the chat members list of the chat window. Should go in once it's cleaned up a bit more. Rebooted my laptop, which turned out to be a big mistake as I ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/09/17/wednesday-09162009/ drive to work was painful today. Combine leaving the house 5 minutes late with the extra traffic that exists thanks to school being back and session and you get stop and go traffic on the tollway. updated my local copy of the qt git repository so i can play with some ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/09/16/tuesday-09152009/ Happy Birthday to my brother, who turned 25 today! boot camp this morning was hard. lots of heavy weights meant my muscles were tired but I don't think I'll be sore later today or tomorrow because of it. got the gnome bugzilla bits checked out from bzr, no thanks to the network ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/09/15/monday-09142009/ Had to get up a little earlier today (6:45am). Dilbert comic today was rather disappointing in terms of quality funniness. Can't be good all the time I suppose. More time with the family today. Lunch at Chili's with the in-laws. It was the first time out to a restaurant for S. ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/09/13/sunday-09132009/ yay! weekend! got to sleep in until 7:30 when S got my wife and I up for the day. Brother in law came in town from Atlanta this afternoon, so over to the in laws for dinner and visiting. Simtower during nap and after S went to bed. also started ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/09/12/saturday-09122009/ boot camp today. about as bad as i expected. 50 minutes of running will do that to you. patch friday resulted in 4 committed patches and 2 more put into the queue that I didn't get to. Also got several comments via the blog. thanks! I'll try to respond to ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/09/11/friday-09112009/ I've deemed Fridays to be "Patch Fridays". This means that I will be doing various things with patches. I review patches, test patches, commit patches, etc. So, if you've sent me a patch, or stuck one on review board, or I've seen one from you on bugs.kde.org, then if I ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/09/11/patch-friday/ Up at the normal time this morning. Ran a bit late due to starting a 'yum update' while I was getting everything else ready that took longer than I thought to finish. Decided to cancel it before leaving. Nice rain on the way home from work. Weatherman said it should be ... http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/09/11/thursday-09102009/