My professional career is about to change one more time… In two weeks I leave Open Wide for Canonical, joining the Desktop Experience team as a KDE developer.
I spent some good time in the OS4I business unit of Open Wide. In the jungle of consulting companies, Open Wide is a human-sized company and a nice [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Exciting change!
Posted in KDE, tagged canonical, job, openwide on February 26, 2009 | 29 Comments »
Advice on Linux friendly usb soundcard
Posted in Misc., tagged lazyweb, mix, soundcard, usb on February 14, 2009 | 16 Comments »
I am preparing for an upcoming party, where I will be in charge of the music. I managed to borrow a amplifier and a set of loudspeakers, and decided I would mix the music with my laptop. While I would not call me a DJ, I played with DJ mixers in the past for other [...]
“Fix the TV, daddy!”
Posted in Misc., tagged fun, kids on February 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday when I came back home, Clara greeted me with “Daddy, can you bring your tools and fix the TV?”.
I stood a bit puzzled, until my wife explained Clara was watching a DVD when the DVD player decided to stop reading, probably unhappy with the state of the disc.
Just like Caleb believes his mommy can [...]
And now for something different, introducing Yokadi
Posted in yokadi, tagged yokadi, todo list on February 7, 2009 | 10 Comments »
For the last few months, when I was not busy hacking on Gwenview or other parts of KDE, I spent some time together with Sébastien Renard (of KDE France fame) creating Yokadi.
Yokadi is a command-line based, sqlite powered, TODO list. It is designed to be fast and efficient. I have been using it to manage [...]
