When SSD disks popped up some time ago, many people’s main concern was their durability. The claimed 10k write cycles for each block didn’t really sound much to most people (including me). Still, I thought I’d risk it, and bought one (an 128GB Crucial/Micron RealSSD m4/C400) about one and a half years ago. The speedup is noticeable, especially for things which need short access times (find, copying large amounds of […]
For every KDevelop release, announcements are made by various people on various news sites, and there’s plenty of comments. Depending on the news site, those comments are more or less accurate, but generally, comments on KDE applications outside of the “KDE world” (planet, developer blogs, …) are often alarmingly mis-informed and are spreading a lot of FUD. I’m sure most projects have similar issues, but I feel it’s especially bad […]
Hi! Five months have passed since the release of kdev-python 1.4.1, and it’s about time for the next release! The 1.5 release will contain various new features and bug fixes, and also will work with KDevelop 4.5, which is to be released soon. One of the new features in kdev-python 1.5: initializing properties in class constructors via code completion Notable Bugs fixed The following issues were fixed, among others: 312275 […]
I had a bit of spare time, so I decided I’d try to implement collaborative editing in KTextEditor, and see how far I can get in a week. That week is over now — and this is how far I got: Your browser does not support the video tag. (If your browser doesn’t support HTML5 video, here’s a direct link) Technical implementation In the background, all this is based on […]