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KDevelop hackaton

21 April 2008 / apol

I am back from Munich, I am at the university now actually :(.

It was a great week though, lots of hacking, knowing people and community building. It is always nice to know the people which have been sharing with you bugs and features :). It was kind of sad leaving the place but well, we had to come back to reality.

In the hacking side, I have been working on the cmake support as a language which is quite ready (we still lack of cache support but i’m planning to add it soon anyway 🙂 ). The rest of KDevelop is taking shape really nicely, it still has some crashes and is having some speed issues that I hope that will be addressed during the following months.

I’ll put some feature review when everything is settled down, but I’m very excited about this new IDE that we will enjoy in some months!

Take care!

KDevelop Developer Meeting – Day[0]

12 April 2008 / apol

So today the KDevelop hackaton started. Yesterday I spent all the day just to go to Munich, where the hackaton is happening.

It was an usual trip: Police trying to get you naked when checking if you have no weapons, train delays (yeah in Germany, I thought that this didn’t happen here 🙂 and some misunderstandings with the hostel receptionist.

When I got my room (finally), then I managed to get some food from an anonymous international frachise and had a walk in the area near the hostel. Germany is quite scary when it is dark :s…

Today we went at Trolltech offices, where Harald spoke about Qt (history, news and features) and I spoke for a while about KDE4. Then we had lunch break and Alexander exposed his ideas about what he wanted KDevelop 4 to be and we started to discuss about how should it be and how are we goint to make it rock. 🙂

Now, after some rest, it seems we will have some cultural interaction (which seems to involve beer :P)…

Aditel IParty X

2 April 2008 / apol

I spent the last along with tsdgeos, ana`, ereslibre, pgquiles and nefertum to the Aditel IParty X that happened in CastellÃ³ de la Plana, where we were invited to give some talks about KDE.

I have to say it was a great LAN Party, one of the best I’ve ever gone, sure (and that’s not because I won a Wii 🙂 ). The people, the place, the organization. 🙂 The only problem was the beamer that didn’t want to work (sometimes) with my laptop, but we could workaround that easily (thanks to Emilio :P).

I think the talks will be soon available, in case someone is actually interested (they are in spanish btw)…

PS: If someone sees a video involving IParty X and Qt4 dance, don’t look at it, it is a fake… 😎 yeah really… 😛

Things about me

8 February 2008 / apol

Some days ago, stephanie tagged me in one of her posts and now I am supposed to say 10 things about me. She evil-laughed me until she got me to do this post. Damn! she is good at that. -.-
I don’t really think there are 10 things about me. Even if that existed, I don’t thing anyone is actually interested on it. BTW, now you know what you are going to find if you keep reading that. 🙂
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KAlgebra release and further work

19 January 2008 / apol

I didn’t plan to make an entry about the KDE 4.0 release, but I just realized something which is important to me. It is the first KAlgebra release into KDE, which is great because it will have a larger userbase and it lets me focus more on development instead of poking people to get the translations and packages :). Now I wonder if I still should update the berlios and kde-apps sites… I’ll think about it.

Said that, I’d like to thank all the people that have supported to get KAlgebra into KDE-Edu and have helped me through the way.

A week ago I was a bit worried, because I had exams. I said to myself “It won’t be nice if the next KAlgebra release, with KDE 4.1, looks all the same as the 4.0”. I really was! I had lots of plans in my head and I thought that I would find any time for KAlgebra. Well, since my last monday’s exam I have been working on KAlgebra, and I have been making some great changes (IMHO).

The first one is that I am adapting it to the MVC, so that we can share the variables and functions all over the session.

The second one is that I have been adding the possibility of using multiple types in KAlgebra expression, so that we can work with Real numbers and Vectors, Matrix and so. By now I only have the Vector support working, but I think it will be useful. 🙂

KDE-Edu meeting in Paris

4 December 2007 / apol

Yesterday I came back from Paris, where i spent this weekend with the KDE-Edu guys, where we met to plan our world domination process.

Before the meeting, I had some doubts about it, I didn’t really know how could a meeting improve KAlgebra or overall KDE-Edu. Everyone can talk to me (by e-mail, irc, etc.) and if there is any issue that should be discussed, I am open to talking to everyone. The reality is far from that. Everything flows more naturally when talking face to face, and that’s what the meetings are for: talking, discussing, knowing people and getting yourself to be known to others. I think it was very healthy for KDE-Edu, it gave me another impression of the project and makes me feel more confortable with it.

Also I had been in a sort of creational crisis for some time, I didn’t have many ideas, but after talking to some people (more precisely Frederik, Benoit and Vladimir) I am more motivated to keep working on it, so that we can have a better KAlgebra for next releases.

Said that, now I am looking forward to KDE 4.1 mainly. I just have some little issues to be solved for the next 4.0 version and then I’ll get to work on the 4.1 version. I am not going to talk about these things now because they don’t exist now, but I will when they do for sure.

Just before getting back to work:
Je voudrais remercier Mandriva, BenoÃ®t, KDE ev et surtout, Anne-Marie pour avoir fait possible cette rÃ©union.

Au revoir!

Akademy-es 2007

19 November 2007 / apol

I spent this week end at the Akademy-es in Zaragoza. Besides the cold weather (much colder than here in the coast) it was awesome. The conference was hosted by Hispalinux and Zaragoza Wireless, and they offered us a big enough space, with good wifi connection and power to plug our laptops, just perfect.
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CMake Help

17 September 2007 / apol

After having been working on cmake so much during summer I having used so much the cmake console help interface (aka cmake –help-command-list and cmake –help-command , which is quite useful) I decided to build a little interface program so it could be used in a different/more intuitive way.

If someone wants to try it, you can check it here. It is written in Python and PyQt4, its my first project using PyQt actually. 🙂

PS: I only writed the interface and the cmake command calls, the texts are from cmake.

Back to blog

25 August 2007 / apol

There has passed a lot of days since the last time I blogged. Meanwhile, I have been working on my Summer Of Code (which is CMake support for KDevelop). Now it seems to work, at least someone can load any KDE project and it loads successfully, and it should work with every CMake project, but I have used KDE as to test and it works, obviously there are some missing features but I am working on it to have them soon available.

The last few days I have been working on KAlgebra, I have brought support to piecewise to be able to run conditional operations which is quite good when someone work with libraries :). If someone want to try it just ask me and I will help you, I will give you just a couple of examples :).

fib:=n->piecewise { eq(n,0)?0, eq(n,1)?1, ?fib(n-1)+fib(n-2) } fact:=n->piecewise { eq(n,1)?1, ? n*fact(n-1) }

The next days I would like to bring multiline input for KAlgebra (yes, have everything in 1 line is ugly) and I will add some new operators such as =,<,> etc to work with it.

See you!