Category Archives: Programming

opencraft-wrapper 0.0.1

Posted on April 28, 2011 by T. Fischer

Here’s a small bit of news to come from us in the Opencraft crew: opencraft-wrapper-0.0.1 was released yesterday.

It is essentially a single python script you run that downloads the latest minecraft_server.jar from minecraft.net, gives you a TCP control interface, …

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Automounting in KDE4

Posted on July 20, 2009 by T. Fischer

Hey again, nice to see y’all. I had to take a summer-long hiatus from the FLOSS world due to some more important events in my personal life, but I’m slowly crawling back.

But thats boring stuff nobody wants to hear …

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Bubblemon in 4.3!

Posted on April 7, 2009 by T. Fischer

A few hours ago I moved Bubblemon out of kdereview and into kdeplasma-addons.

Keep an eye out when 4.3 ships. You’ll like it :)

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Plasma speaks!

Posted on March 23, 2009 by T. Fischer

Last night I committed a quick patch to Plasma’s plasmaclock library that almost all plasma clocks use. It changes the configuration interface a little bit to add one neat feature: speaking the time.

Now, you can configure any plasma clock …

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The Future of Glovebox

Posted on March 17, 2009 by T. Fischer

The middle of last year, I started working on Glovebox, a rather ambitious project for a car computer environment.

One of the biggest choices I made was to write my own set of UI libraries on top of Qt to …

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So, yes, perhaps I was an idiot

Posted on February 15, 2009 by T. Fischer

So in my last post, I said this in reference to bubblemon:

While writing this, I found a few possible bugs in plasma. I say possible, because I’ve been known to be an idiot sometimes

Turns out using setAspectRatioMode(Plasma::Square) fixes it:

You’d …

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Python Plasmoid on TechBase

Posted on January 31, 2009 by T. Fischer

Most of this weekend I spend digging through some of the lightest documentation around, trying to figure out how to make a simple plasmoid in python. Took me over two days, but I finally got it done. I even …

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KPackageKit Progress

Posted on January 11, 2009 by T. Fischer

Over the past week or so, Daniel and I have been hacking on improving KPackageKit. Our original goal was to get it into the 4.2 release. Doing this depended on getting PolicyKit-KDE into base before release time, but that …

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Hi, I develop KPackageKit

Posted on October 21, 2008 by T. Fischer

KPackageKit 0.3.1 was recently released, so I figured now would be a good time to boast that I’m kinda an official KPackageKit contributor. Read the mailing list release notice :)

Hooray free software!

Currently, we’re working on changing the package details …

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Easy Atmel AVRDUDE upload script

Posted on September 29, 2008 by T. Fischer

For my ASM and systems programming class, we occasionally write programs and need to upload them to the programmer board. Since my laptop only has USB ports, I was given a USB-to-Serial converter. In windows, there is device probing …

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