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Cultural Shock ahead
With us moving in April to a new appartment, I will take the chance to fill the gained space in the new office room with a slightly enhanced computing infrastructure. Currently, I own one Windows (XP) machine, one GNU/Linux (Mandriva) machine, and a lot of mobile devices running GNU/Linux (OpenEmbedded-derived). What has been missing since long is an Apple Mac. Not only because this is the 3rd supported platform for the Qt GUI-Toolkit, but also because Apple always had a special touch when it comes to usability, polishing interfaces, and streamlining workflows. I never owned any Apple product, so I'm...
OpenMoko @ LugRadio
LugRadio is a fortnightly British radio show that takes a relaxed, humorous look at Linux and open source. Recently, we talked about the OpenMoko mobile phone platform. It was a fun experience, these guys are really cool! Gosh, I have a hell of an accent. I really need to attend some articulation lessons for american (or rather perhaps british?) english.
Appointment for Thesis Defence
I finally have an appointment for the public defence of my doctoral thesis. It will happen on Thursday, 22nd of February, 2007, 14:00 which is good and bad. Good in the sense that it will finally be over in 4 weeks. Bad in the sense that I have only 4 weeks left to prepare for it. Since this is one day before FOSDEM 2007, I will have to hand over the wheel in organizing the OpenEmbedded booth appearance to someone else. Of course, I will still be present there and will also be able to stand at the booth, but...
A good day
Three cool events happened today: We got confirmation that we have been selected as new hirers for an appartement we have applied for. That means we will have to move -- which is not so cool per se, because moving is always stressful and exhausting -- however my office room will grow from 15m² to 31m² which is just great! I'm going to buy lots of new devices to fill that room :D I got confirmation that both referees have (finally) submitted their reports on my doctoral thesis and today the circulation of my thesis within the faculty has been...
Back from 23c3
The annual Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin was a really cool event. It was my first Chaos Computer Congress and there were lots of interesting talks and opportunities to meet talented people working on projects. I also found time to work a couple of hours with Harald 'LaF0rge' Welte on OpenMoko and meet some guys from the OpenEZX project.
Star Trek Personality Test
I am Jean-Luc Picard At least, according to the Star Trek Personality Test -- do it, it's fun and you may learn something about yourself ;) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----+ | A lover of Shakespeare and\ | | | Jean-Luc Picard | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 65% | | other fine literature. You have\ | | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----+ | a decisive mind and a firm hand\ | | | James T. Kirk (Captain) | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 60% | | in dealing with others. | | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----+ | | | | Will Riker | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 55% | | | | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----+ | | |...
Congratulations Madam, it's a phone
Now that the cat is out of the box, I can finally tell you a bit more about this project. You probably have seen all the press releases, so I don't need to recap what you can expect out of it as a user. This is about what's in for you as a developer, because this is what has attracted me so much as well. Please note though that I'm not speaking officially for FIC here -- this is my personal take on the project. For years, the embedded open source community has been lusting for a hackable phone. A...
Upcoming Conference: Open Source in Mobile
I'm very pleased to be able to attend the first conference on business case and technology: Open Source in Mobile in Amsterdam this week. Not only will this be a great opportunity to discuss the merits of open source with business guys and operators, but also a chance to talk about the project I have been working on for the last couple of months...
Gtk+ Theming Woes for Embedded GUIs
In the project I'm working on, we want to have a visual user experience that is guaranteed to blow you away. Eye candy and usability combined. This is about eye candy. In theory, the Gtk+ theming capabilities are good. In practice, it sucks. I won't go into complaining about the most underdocumented area of Gtk+, but if you want to attract commercial developers who need to rely on being productive and effective right from the start, then Gtk+ is giving you a lot of headaches. The usage of X11 and Gtk+ as the GUI foundation for embedded devices is increasing...
Back from Trolltech DevDays'06
The two days event run by Trolltech in the Hilton Park Hotel in Munich was fully loaded with a sophisticated technical program, interesting partner exhibits, and really good food (excluding the Trolltech cookies, which only looked cute)! Add two nice giveaways (a Trolltech branded backpack which is really usefully designed + a Trolltech shirt) and a lot of friendly Trolls and you have an event that was really worth to attend. For me, the most impressing issues were: Qt for WinCE in 2008 Advanced Item Views Thread Support in Qt Styling Qt Widgets using Style-Sheets QGraphicsView 1. Matthias Ettrich announced...