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Akademy 09: Accomodation Needed

June 9, 2009 in tech by Seb

So I have tickets to Akademy 2009. I’m flying Sydney - Hong Kong - London - Madrid - Las Palmas, and I’ll try not to whinge about it.
But typically, more things gone wrong: the GCDS “travel agent” decided to lose my booking and now I don’t have anywhere to sleep. Anybody about that also needs [...]

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The Canaries make me weep

May 19, 2009 in tech by Seb

You might know that Akademy 2009 is going to be held in the Canary Islands in July. It’s going to be fantastic and fun and hot and warm and we’ll be absolutely spending time at the beach rather than listening to some technical mumbo jumbo.
But I have to say - it must be one of [...]

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Orbitting the Sun

April 28, 2009 in tech by Seb

Forward: This is a repost of the article which I wrote for a recent commit digest report by Danny Allen. Since February, Amarok 2.1 has continued improvement, so don’t take the following content as “exhaustive”.

Amarok 2 marked the first release of the newest generation of Amarok. This marked over two years of very hard work [...]

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Interactive Debugging KDE Apps with QtCreator

April 28, 2009 in tech by Seb

Recently I began using QtCreator to try and do some development on Amarok. During my day job as a Java developer I get to work with tools like Intellij, which is a great IDE when you can put aside the problems of Java GUI apps on Linux. For a long time I’ve been using [...]

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Amarok 2.1: Mini Update

April 3, 2009 in tech by Seb

A few weeks ago I started working on improving a few little niggling problems that I’ve been having with Amarok recently. Here’s a brief overview of what I’ve done.
Prettier Collection Browser
A image is really the best way to show this:

You can see that each collection uses more space to make it easier to find and [...]

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